Recovery Home Series - Part 2

Disordered Gambling and Impacts

This Webinar was pre-recorded from October 18th, 2022 and is approximately 1.5 hour in length.

1.5 CE Available from IOADAPCA

**CE credit available for those who watch the entire webinar (credit is tracked by email at registration, so please be sure to use the same email for joining the webinar).

Please join us for the first part of our Recovery Home Series. This will be an deeper dive to the world of Disordered Gambling and it's impacts presented by Tana Russell.

The onsite staff in Recovery Homes offer many services and provide an effective support system for residents. Relapse can be common among people with Substance Use and Gambling Disorders and supportive Recovery Homes can have a positive impact. These high rates of relapse highlight the need for understanding how Gambling Disorder impacts risk of relapse and how Recovery Home Staff and Support Service Providers can help provide healthy environments that address these issues and support residents in their recovery.

This 7-Session Curriculum on Gambling Disorder and its Impacts offers seven, 1.5-hr Live Webinar sessions, with PPT curriculum, resource materials, Q&A. Designed to give an in-depth educational overview for staff at Recovery Homes and Support Service providers working with SUD and Gambling Disorder clients and is not considered gambling treatment. Highlights of information covered in each of the 7 sessions are outlined here:

Topics to be Covered:

Co-morbidity – what does the research say?
- Addiction: Gambling vs. SUDs
- How common are co-occurring disorders with gambling disorder?
- Psychiatric problems associated with problem gambling
- Concurrent disorders
- Sequential Addiction patterns

Objectives:

Attendees will be able to identify the similarities and differences between Substance Use Disorder and Gambling Disorder
Attendees will learn the incidence of co-occurring disorders with gambling disorders
Attendees will be able to identify similarities and difference between Gambling Disorder and other Process Addictions

Presenter Bio:

Tana Russell (she/her) became Assistant Director at Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling in 2019. She holds certifications as a Substance Use Disorder Professional (SUDP), Washington State Certified Gambling Counselor II (WSCGC-II), and Nationally Certified Tobacco Treatment Provider (NCTTP) and has completed extensive training on video gaming disorder. She serves on the NCPG treatment subcommittee and is a member of the Washington State Gambling Counselor Certification Committee and the Washington State Problem Gambling Task Force.