Professional Learning Center

Contingency Management

This session will run from 9am - 11am. Registration and coffee will begin at 8:30am. The workshop will be held at the Coalition's office located in lower Manhattan at 90 Broad St., 8th Fl. Directions can be found by following the "Contact Us" link on the left.

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Sessions

Keeping It Positive: Using Contingency Management in Addiction Treatment

November 19, 2009 | 9-11am

Scott Kellogg, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU, will speak on the following core Contingency Managment topics:

(1) The learning theory foundation (i.e., Skinner)

(2) Applications of contingency management in nonsubstance abuse settings

(3) The early applications of contingency management in the addictions field -- behavioral pharmacology and clinical alcohol studies

(4) The modern classic studies: Higgins voucher incentive program; Silverman's voucher incentive; Petry's intermittent reinforcement, fishbowl model; and the NIDA Clinical Trials Network Contingency Management study (Stitzer and Petry)

(5) The Seven Core Principles of Contingency Management

This will be followed by:

(a) a brief film about CM that was created by the NIDA-CSAT-ATTC PAMI project;
(b) an exercise in applying these principles with challenges that are commonly found in clinical settings;
(c) a problem-solving discussion of how to use contingency management effectively in participants' clinical work.

Dr. Scott Kellogg is currently a Clinical Psychologist and a Gestalt-training Schema Therapist who currently works as a psychotherapost and supervisor at the Schema Therapy Institute in NYC. In 2004 Dr. Kellogg co-authored an article for the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment entitled "Something of value: The introduction of contingency mangement interventions into the NYC Health and Hospital Addiction Treatment Service".

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