Special Online Holiday Event: Relapse – Prevention and Coping

Nov. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- SMART Recovery® is pleased to announce that our final Special Event for 2011 will be with Dr. Tom Horvath, SMART Recovery’s President.  Dr. Horvath will speak on:  Relapse – Prevention and Coping, on Saturday, December 17 at 2:00 pm, EST in The SMART Room online chat venue at SMART Recovery Online.

Dr. Horvath’s credentials are “impeccable” as one of his book reviewer’s notes, and he speaks in clear, practical terms about the ways addiction in the context of habit affects us all.  His topic is particularly timely in heralding the holidays as well as looking forward to the New Year.  The holidays can be challenging for many and being prepared for those challenges and coping and continuing to move forward if things go wrong, we hope will be of great interest to the community and beyond.  Dr. Horvath’s appeal is wide, as he examines how any habit can become problematic and offers a window on addressing these tendencies across a wide spectrum of the behaviors that are not serving us well.

Tom Horvath, Ph.D., a California licensed and board certified clinical psychologist (ABPP), has been President of SMART Recovery® for over a decade.  He is the founder and president of Practical Recovery, a self-empowering addiction treatment system in San Diego.  He is past president of the American Psychological Association’s Society on Addiction Psychology (Division 50), the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists. He is the author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions (listed by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies as a “Self-Help Book of Merit”).

The event will be hosted in The SMART Room at SMART Recovery Online. To access The SMART Room, you must be registered at SMART Online. Please register in advance:  www.smartrecoveryforum.com.  Once registered, you will be taken to the SMART Message Boards.  Select “SMART Recovery Chat and Meeting Rooms” – the long blue bar near the top left of the page, and then click on the menu item “SMART Recovery Chat and Meeting Rooms.”  From there, select The SMART Room.  (Note: A microphone is not required. You can listen and there is a space in which to type questions and comments.) The session will be recorded and may be made available in podcast form on SMART Recovery’s podcast site: www.smartrecovery.libsyn.com.

You may also access the message boards/chat through the menus on the SMART Recovery’s Main Site: http://www.smartrecovery.org.

SMART Recovery is very pleased to be able to continue to offer these Special Events on topics of interest as a public service.  Please share with your friends, family and colleagues.

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