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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: anonAARCgrad on February 20, 2012, 08:29:19 PM

Title: AARC "conference"
Post by: anonAARCgrad on February 20, 2012, 08:29:19 PM
Scary:

ADDICTIONS CONFERENCE
How to win in adolescent addiction; an evidence based practice

Presented by
Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
ADDICTIONS CONFERENCE
How to win in adolescent addiction; an evidence based practice
Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
Ann McCaig Centre
303 Forge Road S.E.,
Calgary, AB T2H 0S9
Phone: (403) 253-5250
Fax: (403) 640-2520
February 27th & 28th, 2012
To better address the effects of substance abuse and addiction in the
community this two-day conference will provide evidence based
research approach with the intent of informing and creating
significant professional relationships within the community.
This Conference is of significant importance as it will allow delegates to better
address the effects of substance abuse and addiction in the community.
How to win in adolescent addiction; an evidence based practice will share a
message of experience, strength and hope regarding drug and alcohol
use and abuse and the disease of addiction within the family dynamic.
Monday February 27th, 2012
Registration & Breakfast
Opening by M. Ann McCaig
Keynote Dr. Ken Winters
- “This is Your Brain on Adolescence:
Implications of Brain Development Science for
Enhancing Treatment of Substance Use Disorders.”
Break
Dr. Lori Hogg
- “Drug Induced Psychosis: When and What to Treat.”
Lunch
Dr. F. Dean Vause
Natalie Imbach, M.Sc.
Colin Brown, M.Sc.
- “Success in Treating Adolescent Addiction “
Break
Dr. Peter Choate
- “Role of the Parents in Adolescent Addiction”
Closing by Dr. F. Dean Vause

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Breakfast
Welcome - The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Keynote Dr. Amelia Arria
- “Risk Factors for Underage Drinking and Drug Use:
What does the research tell us?”
Break
Jennifer Edmondson-Neily, B.A., B.Ed.
Donna Price, B.PE., B.Ed.
Gisele Kreuger, B.Ed., M.Ed.
- “The Roles Schools Can Play in Supporting the
Adolescent Addict”
Lunch
Tia Salter, B.A. CRIM
- “Accreditation, Quality Assurance and Outcomes”
Dr. Stuart Wilkinson, Pure North S’Energy
- “Healthy Living”
Break
AARC Parents & Kids
- “Success Stories from Parents & Youth”
Closing Remarks by Dr. F. Dean Vause
Title: Re: AARC "conference"
Post by: ajax13 on February 20, 2012, 11:28:31 PM
http://www.psychiatry.umn.edu/faculty/winters/home.html (http://www.psychiatry.umn.edu/faculty/winters/home.html)
Title: Re: AARC "conference"
Post by: ajax13 on February 22, 2012, 11:54:33 AM
I asked Dr. Winters what motivated him to sell his services to a discredited behavior modification program descended from Miller Newton's Kids, and he assured me that he had weighed the pros and cons.  There is no whore like an old whore.
Title: Addictions Conference @ AARC
Post by: Ursus on February 22, 2012, 04:35:37 PM
Link for the AARC event described in the OP (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=39111&p=413984#p413888):

Addictions Conference (http://http://www.aarc.ab.ca/articles/2012/aarc_addiction_conference.pdf) (3pp pdf)
"How to win in adolescent addiction; an evidence based practice"
February 27th & 28th, 2012 - Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre[/list]
Title: Re: Addictions Conference @ AARC - speaker profiles
Post by: Ursus on February 22, 2012, 05:38:05 PM
Some speaker profiles for the Addictions Conference, "How to win in adolescent addiction; an evidence based practice," taken from the 2nd page of that pdf (http://http://www.aarc.ab.ca/articles/2012/aarc_addiction_conference.pdf):

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Ken Winters, PhD

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Amelia Arria, PhD

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Peter W. Choate, MSW RSW, PhD

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Lori Hogg, M.Sc., MD, FRCP (C)

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F. Dean Vause, PhD

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Title: Re: AARC "conference"
Post by: ajax13 on February 22, 2012, 07:06:37 PM
"Dr. F. Dean Vause is the Executive Director of the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre (AARC), a long-term, intensive treatment program for severely addicted youth and their families. AARC is the culmination of Dr. Vause's 20 years of research into adolescent addiction. His research took him to treatment centres throughout North America.

Dr. Vause started his career in high schools, where he taught, counselled and developed programs to help youth in the education system. His Masters dissertation "A School Drug Program", and his Ph.D. Program, "Adolescent Substance Use Disorders", focus on both a model and facility for adolescent drug treatment. He has provided many Teacher In-service presentations on the subject of drug use in schools in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia and parts of the United States, and has provided numerous workshops for many other community organizations.

Dr. Vause is considered to be a leading expert in the field of adolescent addiction, and his advice is sought by other professionals. He is the recipient of the Rotary International "Paul Harris Fellowship", the highest honour in Rotary. Other awards include Calgary Citizen of the Year award and the Alberta Centennial Medal."

Where to start?

1. The Wiz has stated in no uncertain terms to the College of Alberta Psychologists that AARC does not provide treatment.
2. The Wiz has not done twenty years of research into adolescent addiction.  He has been running AARC for almost twenty years.  Before that he worked for Miller Newton at Kids, and before that he was a guidance counselor.
3. The statement about his "Ph.D. Program" is meaningless. His Union Institute degree was given to him while he was already running AARC.  His "Project Demonstrating Excellence" was written about AARC, and involved no clinical research.  AARC was a development of kids that was renamed.
4. The Wiz is not considered to be a leading expert in the field of adolescent addiction by anyone other than AARC parents, staff, clients, a handfull of politicians and donors.  he has never had a paper published in any recognized journal, and has never participated in any independent study in the field.
5.The Rotary Club coughed up half ofthe original $1.2 million used to set up Kids.  They are complicit in the crime.
Title: Re: AARC "conference"
Post by: ajax13 on February 23, 2012, 12:17:14 PM
The good Dr. Winters will no longer accept my emails.  His last message stated that he received no speaker fee.  I'm thinking vacay in the Caymans.
Title: Re: AARC "conference"
Post by: ajax13 on March 01, 2012, 02:54:58 PM
"Dr. Winters is a consultant to many organizations, including the Hazelden Foundation, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, The Partnership at Drugfree.org, World Health Organization, and the Mentor Foundation (an international drug abuse prevention organization)."

This makes  much more sense now.  The Wiz is going all the way back to the Straight well, font of his powers as leader of an illegal thought reform program.