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Please join us for a Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) seminar with Katie Witkiewitz, PhD

New Perspectives on Addiction Relapse and Recovery: An Idiographic Contextual Approach

Topic: Treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and other addictive disorders have progressed considerably over the past 30 years. Yet, there is still lack of consensus about the prediction and prevention of returning to problematic drinking and drug use during treatment and what factors predict longer-term recovery. Definitions of relapse and recovery also vary and there is little empirical data to inform our understanding of long-term outcomes following a course of evidence-based addiction treatment. The current talk will highlight conceptual and empirical advances in the treatment of addiction, focusing particularly on person-centered approaches to conceptualizing relapse risk and empirically evaluating changes in substance use over time. Implications for definitions of addiction recovery and future research will also be discussed.

Presenter: Dr. Katie Witkiewitz is a Regents’ Professor of Psychology and a Scientist at the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions at the University of New Mexico. The underlying theme of her research is the development of empirically-based models of addiction, with an emphasis on applying advanced quantitative research methods to better understand changes in addictive behavior over time. Dr. Witkiewitz is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has worked extensively on the development of a theoretical model of biopsychosocial influences on alcohol and drug relapse. She has conducted numerous empirical studies on the prediction of alcohol and drug relapse, mechanisms of successful alcohol treatment outcomes, as well as the development of interventions to treat addiction. To date, Dr. Witkiewitz has authored 5 books and over 175 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and she has given over 110 presentations and invited talks. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institute on Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and National Cancer Institute, with over $20 million in research funding since 2004.
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