Lifestyle Intervention Conference Kicks Off Sunday in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lifestyle Intervention Conference (LIC) 2015 kicks off Sunday, providing professionals in the substance abuse and mental health treatment field with advanced training on identifying and treating clients living with process addictions. In addition, professionals have the opportunity to earn up to 18 CEUs while networking with others in the industry.

This event will focus on cross addiction from the perspective of intervention, process addictions, eating disorders and EAP training. LIC was created with the intention of building a network of resources within the community of providers who serve those struggling with addiction.

Since its inception, the Lifestyle Intervention Conference has been a forum for essential information exchange and community-changing discussion for and among industry professionals who serve those struggling with disorders that impact their overall health and wellness.

From October 4-7, attendees will have the opportunity to take part in career-boosting trainings, hear the latest from expert speakers, and network with other professionals in the industry. LIC5 offers attendees access to a range of resources that speak to the issue of cross addictions from the diagnostic and treatment perspective, keying in on four areas of intensive focus that will include the following.

1) Advanced Intervention

For attendees interested in learning more about advanced intervention techniques, a number of workshops will be provided, including:

• Interventions for the Underserved LGBT Community with Jeff Zacharias
• Intervening on Your Billboard with Darren Kavinoky
• How to Effectively Market Intervention Services with Wayne Raiter
• Treating the Emerging Young Adult Alcoholic and Addict with Cardwell C. Nuckols
• Complicated Interventions: Process Addictions and Beyond – An Ecological Approach with Louise Stanger 
• ARISE: For Long-Term Recovery from Obesity and Food Addiction When Abstinence Is Not an Option with Judith Landau

2) Love, Sex & Relationships

• The Crazy Train: Relationship Addiction with Lori Jean Glass
• The Neurobiological Basis for the Use of Integrative Treatment Methods in AddictionMedicine and Psychiatry: Why Do These Approaches Work? with Robert Johnson
• Intoxicated by Love with Doug McGuirk
• Technology: The New Gateway Drug with Lisa Strohman
• Sex, Intimacy, and Older Adults with Gerald Shulman
• Understanding Addiction Interaction with Patrick Carnes

3) Employee Assistance Professionals

• 12-Step Orientation to EAPs with Michael Klaybor
• The New Age of EAP Service Delivery: Moving to the Next Generation with Richard Paul & Carole Berwick
• Treatment Strategies for Gambling Addicts with Michael Goldman
• Self, Scruples, & Rock 'n Roll: On the Ethics of Authenticity in the Helping Professional with Jeff Christie
• Microwave Version of Motivational Interviewing for CEAPs with Thomas Broffman
• TeleMental: Efficacy, Ethics, and Design with Brent LoCaste-Wilken & Rebecca Rucker

4) Food Disorders

• 12-Step and Neurochemistry as a Model for Recovery with Ralph Carson
• Mindfulness Meditation and Positive Psychology Practices with Andrea Pennington
• Exercise: Addiction or Healthy Lifestyle Choice with Kim Dennis
• Hormones, Health, and Addictive Behavior with Mark Calarco
• Eating Disorders: How to Treat Co-Occurring Issues of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress with Gregory Jantz 
• When Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders Collide with Robyn Cruze

Keynote Speakers

Additionally, attendees are encouraged to hear the keynote speakers as well, including:

• Ralph Carson: The Healing Brain: Integrating Positive Psychology, 12-Step, and Neurochemistry in Model for Recovery
• Darren Kavinoky: What's on Your Billboard?
• Brian Cuban & Andrew Walen: Shattered Image: Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Jeff Christie: Stranger In a Strange Land: Understanding the World of EAP
• Raymond Mis: Spirituality and the 12-Step Recovery Program: A Prescription for Personal Change
• Patrick Carnes: Discovering the Meaning of Recovery

Continental breakfasts, sponsored lunches and snack breaks, as well as morning workouts, open 12-Step meetings, and evening entertainment and networking events will also be made available to attendees. Come join us at LIC5!

To learn more, please visit www.lifestyleintervention.org.

About LIC5
The Lifestyle Intervention Conference focuses on cross addictions from the perspectives of intervention, process addictions, eating disorders, and EAP training. LIC offers advanced training for professionals, which will help them quickly and effectively recognize, intervene, diagnose and treat those who need help. The Lifestyle Intervention Conference continues to be the most critical, industry-changing event to impact the health, fitness, and wellness communities in decades.

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