What do the best do? They learn from history 11/10/ th Annual Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Training Conference

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1 13 th Annual Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Training Conference Presents How to Become the World s Best Counselor Presenter Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC What do the best do? They learn from history 1

2 Mike Tyson They Recognize That Peers Are An Important Part of Recovery Dr. Bob and Bill W. 2

3 The best keep learning to stay current and innovate How Top Business Leaders Stay Current They Follow the 5 Hour Rule 5 hours per week doing deliberate learning. This learning is divided into 3 parts The 5 Hour Rule What Great Leaders Do 1. They read 3 hours per day 2. They reflect 1 hour per day 3. They experiment/create 1 hour per day 3

4 Mark Cuban Reads 3 hours per day Oprah Reads 3 hours per day Bill Gates Reads 3 hours per day 4

5 Mark Zuckerberg Reads 3 hours per day Mark Sanders reads 15 minutes per day Benneth Lee 5

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8 Conclusion Contact provided by the softness of the cloth covering was more important than feeding in the formation of an intact monkey s attachment to its mother 8

9 The 5 Hour Rule Continued What Great Leaders Do 2. They reflect The 5 Hour Rule Continued What Great Leaders Do 3. Experiment/create 9

10 How do you find time for all of this? What the Most Successful People do Before 9 AM Develop their body Develop their spirit Improve their relationships Improve their mind Grow professionally Most People Lose Discipline at Night Affairs Alcohol and drug relapses Gambling Return to cigarettes smoking Real bad arguments Flights/breakups Murder Diet breaking 10

11 Staying Current Continued 11

12 Addiction Treatment and Cancer Treatment: Personal reflections of a long tenured Addictions Professional 12

13 Staying Current Continued Pick one subject and try to become an expert 13

14 Staying Current Continued Study technology Recent Lessons Learned Part time, temporary jobs, computers and robots will eliminate thousands of good jobs 14

15 Robots are always polite, they always upsale, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there is never a slip and fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case. Andy Puzder Head of Carl s Jr. Bill Gates House Art work changes with a push of a button Music changes with voice command Lights out with a voice command A robot that brings you your shoes, coat, etc. Implications for the Behavioral Health Field Through virtual courses USC is the largest MSW program in the world Ellie the robot is now treating returning veterans with PTSD and Depression with voice command 15

16 Ellie has everything except Implications for the Behavioral Health Field Continued Overdose Apps Frito Lay introduces chip bag with a censor that can help measure your blood alcohol level during the Super Bowl 16

17 Implications for Our Field Continued Cars that measure blood alcohol levels Use of a stress inducing film to determine AMA rates Implications for Our Field Continued More online, virtual and Skype sessions Text messaging Use of brain imagining to diagnose addiction and Traumatic Stress Disorders The best protect their 17

18 The best have some doubt about their effectiveness. They are less likely to see progress where none exists - Miller 2016 Good therapists tend to over estimate their effectiveness To assure that they won t over estimate their effectiveness the best are led by client feedback 18

19 We tend to wait too late to get feedback While we wait: 50% of chemically dependent adults miss their second outpatient session 60% of adolescents miss their second session 50% of inpatients drop out of treatment prematurely In one study 100% of year olds left treatment against medical advise 19

20 We can learn a lot about the best time to get feedback from: Hotels Restaurants The best time to get feedback is at the end of each session: Practice based evidence vs. Evidence based practices Session Rating Scale Lowest Highest 20

21 The best are great co-workers The best are effective at working with clients from diverse backgrounds: Providing additional information rather than judging Incorporating culture into treatment planning Developing products that reflect culture They pay attention to micro-aggressions The best periodically stop and smell the 21

22 The best guard their time to create balance and protect themselves from burnout and compassion fatigue The best seek peer supervision The best teach without preaching 22

23 Clients love it when you re smart - Pat Love, PH.D The best individualize their work with clients 23

24 If we individualize therapy, we create a new therapy each session - Irvin Yalom, Ph.D The best address co-occurring conditions: Trauma Mental illness Homelessness Medical complications 24

25 The best advocate for clients Ghandi Dr. Martin Luther King 25

26 Pee-wee Reese Malala Yousafzai Loretta 26

27 The 10 Things That The Best Group Therapist Do They build group cohesion. They base interventions on the groups stage of development. They effectively manage group conflict. They empower the group to gradually take ownership of the group. They effectively intervene with difficult group members. The 10 Things That The Best Group Therapist Do Continued They effectively increase trust in groups with multicultural membership. They maintain group cohesion in the midst of rapid turnover. They effectively integrate activities into the group process. They utilize evidence based practices. They instill hope during hard times. 27