THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 - Keynote Speaker

Carlo DiClemente, PhD

Addiction and Change: Understanding the Journey of Initiation and Recovery

Initiation and successful recovery from addiction represent a journey through a process of change. This presentation will explore the process and identify how providers can intervene in in preventing addiction and promoting recovery. Initiation of addiction often interacts with adverse childhood experiences, mental health challenges, and critical contextual influences. Moving to free oneself from an addictive behavior involves finding the motivation, decision-making, commitment, effective planning and implementation to overcome this well maintained neurobiological and behavioral condition. Significant use of substances affects brain, body, and takes over the life space of the individual. The individual must make the journey through recovery using personal coping mechanism, seeking support and scaffolding for their compromised self-regulation, and re-center their lives. We will explore how outreach and treatment are connected to the personal journey into and out of addiction and the reality of successful recovery.

ERICA H. WISE, Ph.D. is a consultant, educator, and frequent workshop presenter on ethical issues in professional psychology. For 20 years she taught doctoral level courses in the clinical psychology doctoral program at UNC Chapel Hill that focused on clinical theory and practice, ethics and diversity, and clinical supervision. She is a former chair of the APA Ethics Committee and the North Carolina Psychology Board, and she recently completed two terms on the APA Board Educational Affairs (BEA). She is a past-president of NCPA and current co-chair of the NCPA Ethics Committee. She was the recipient of the 2013 Annual APA Ethics Committee Award for Outstanding Contributions to Ethics Education and received a 2014 APA Presidential Citation for her work in social justice advocacy and self-care for psychologists, and she is a Fellow of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12) of APA. Her professional interests include professional education and training, multicultural supervision, continuing education for psychologists, and the integration of ethics, diversity, self-care, and communitarian care into academic and professional practice settings.