This webinar for addiction and mental health service providers explores how a mindfulness approach can benefit individuals with gambling problems.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the similarities and differences between mindfulness and psychotherapy
- Describe the inquiry process
- Explain the research to support the use of mindfulness
- Explain how mindfulness can benefit people with gambling problems
- Describe client matching
When: January 7, 2021; 11AM - 12PM EST
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About the Presenter:
Peter Chen, HSC, CPGC, BEd works as a Community Health and Education Specialist with the Gambling, Gaming and Technology Use-Knowledge Exchange program (formerly the Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario) at CAMH, where he has worked since 1993. He was one of the first three gambling counsellors in 1995 when treatment resources for problem gambling was first funded by the Ministry of Health of Ontario.
Peter is also the chair of the Canadian Problem Gambling Certification Board and his area of specialty is in the integration of mindfulness meditation and clinical practice. He introduced mindfulness to the Problem Gambling and Technology Use Treatment Service at CAMH in 2010 and has led Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention groups for the clients for ten years. He has also facilitated mindfulness workshops for addiction and mental health service providers. Peter is also a published author in the area of Mindfulness and Problem Gambling treatment.
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