Tag: raising kids

Dr. Stephen Grinstead sits down with Aaron and talks frankly about children and their pain meds. The opioid crisis is in full swing, but children get injured. Dr. Grinstead gives parents a process to control the meds, the feelings and the response when a child wants “more”.

Dr. Grinstead is an internationally recognized expert in preventing relapse related to addiction and chronic pain disorders and is the developer of the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. He has been working with chronic pain management, substance use disorders, eating addiction and coexisting mental and personality disorders since 1984. He is also the author of Thank You Adversity for Another Test, Freedom from Suffering: A Journey of Hope as well as several other pain management books including Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders, and the Addiction-Free Pain Management® Recovery Guide.

Dr. Grinstead has a Bachelors Degree in Behavioral Science, a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Doctorate in Addictive Disorders (Dr. AD). He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, (LMFT) a past California Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC-II), and a current Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist (ACRPS). He served on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz Extension Alcohol and Drug Studies Program and also taught at Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley Extension, and Stanford University Medical School and served on the faculty of University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies as well as serving as an Adjunct Professor at Alliant University teaching Masters Level and Psy.D. Students the Treating the Addicted Family System course for the Marriage and Family Therapy track for five years.

Are teens nowadays just not able to handle what we could as teens? Are they too “fragile” and get depression and anxiety over things Gen Xers and Boomers just bootstrapped and handled?

Were we more resilient?

Dr. Hans Watson brings us through the life and psyche of a teen in this, Part 1 of a 3 part series. In this episode we confront not just the WHY, but HOW resiliency is created in the brain and tools to help our teens develop it.

Dr. Watson is a highly decorated, a combat-proven leader with advanced psychiatric training & experience. He has the necessary experience and skills to inspire & motivate groups, deliver world-class mental health training, improve leadership, identify the reasons for any organization’s performance, and execute expert psychiatric evaluations for the courts.

Part One of Three

Dr. Boriskin explains that someone can have an addictive disorder without post-traumatic stress disorder – or PTSD without substance abuse issues – but it’s very common for the conditions to co-occur. In fact, he estimates that more than 80 percent of the military veterans he treats for PTSD also have a substance-abuse disorder.

“The timing of which comes first is irrelevant,” he says. “It’s imperative to come to terms with the addiction first, then start working with the PTSD issue.” He notes that both disorders are difficult to treat, but both respond to similar interventions.

The whole family is affected, effected and infected by the addiction AND recovery process. Returning guest Dr. Barnes explains how and why as well as the what next.

Dr. Michael Barnes is the Chief Clinical Officer at Foundry Treatment Center-Steamboat. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Master Addiction Counselor, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. His areas of expertise include trauma-integrated addiction treatment, family trauma and addiction, and compassion fatigue in helping professionals. Prior to coming to Foundry, he served as the Manager of Residential Services at the Center for Dependence, Addiction, and Rehabilitation (CeDAR) at the University of Colorado Hospital. Prior to that, he was a faculty member in the MA Program in Counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Barnes is a frequent contributor to local, state, and national conferences. He graduated with his BA in Psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, M.Ed., in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. In Marriage and Family Therapy from Florida State University.

Christy is a return guest on BRAB, this time, giving parents the 101 on social media dangers. Christy Alten Osmera is the adolescent Program Director at Keystone Treatment and shares her wealth of knowledge as a therapist AND a mother. This is another look into the basic dangers of Social Media and the role it plays shaping our youth…and ourselves!

Robb Kelly, PhD is a world-renowned addiction expert who believes in treating the problem, not the symptoms. He has worked for many years helping addicts and alcoholics to RECOVER their lives from the disease of addiction.

Based on his own experiences working with addicts and alcoholics over the last 20 years, combined with a PhD in psychology, and as a recovered alcoholic himself – he is a triple threat against the disease of addiction.

Dr. Kelly’s philosophy may seem unconventional and unorthodox. But, they are based on extensive research and behavior studies that he conducted over the last 20 years. He pulls the disease out of his clients and empowers them to fight their disease head on.

Some people have referred to him as “The Gordon Ramsay of the Addiction World” because of his direct, no-nonsense, and candid approach to recovery. He has discovered that in order to get his clients to change their thinking, they must confront their disease with candor and vigor. Dr. Kelly works to “make the road of recovery less of a mystery tour.”

Robb Kelly, PhD has worked with thousands of people including celebrities of film, music, and sports. He has lectured at many high profile universities and hospitals on the subject of addiction and is recognized as a leading authority on addiction recovery methods that are changing lives all around the world.

Today, he is living his dream, instead of dreaming of living.