Second National Philadelphia PA Friday November 2nd through Sunday November 4th, 2007 Presenters
Ms. Jeannie Little is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Group Psychotherapist with 25 years experience working with families and children, with severely mentally ill clients, with substance abusers, and with homeless persons. She has worked both as a clinician and in program management with clients with a variety of emotional and drug-related problems. In 2000, she cofounded the Harm Reduction Therapy Center to provide treatment, training and research in this emerging field. Ms. Little specializes in group therapy and has developed a program for homeless mentally ill substance users and long-term therapy groups for private patients with drug and alcohol issues. She has specialized experience with clients who have co-existing psychiatric and drug problems (dual diagnosis). She trains and provides consultation on dual diagnosis, on harm reduction psychotherapy and motivational interviewing, and on group therapy for people with substance abuse problems. She also provides consultation to outreach, case management, and housing agencies. She is author of several papers on the topics of dual diagnosis and group treatment of substance abuse and co-author of the upcoming book Over the Influence, The Harm Reduction Approach for Managing Drugs and Alcohol.
Dr. Patt Denning, PhD has worked in special education and then with psychiatric and substance abusing patients since 1972. She worked in Community Mental Health in San Francisco, first as a program director with schizophrenics in residential treatment and Then with multi-diagnosed clients as the director of a large psychiatric outpatient team in a public health clinic. Since 1993 she has been in private practice, working with clients with a variety of emotional problems and those who need specialized help with their problems with drugs and alcohol. In 2000, she cofounded the Harm Reduction Therapy Center to provide treatment, training and research in this emerging field. She has served on the faculty of two schools of psychology and has specialized training in psychopharmocology (the biological aspects of mental illness, medications, and drugs and alcohol). A significant part of her practice is devoted to public speaking, teaching, training, and supervising people in the mental health field. Dr. Denning is widely recognized as an expert in both drug treatment and dual diagnosis and is one of the main developers of harm reduction psychotherapy in the U.S. She has been named a media expert on dual diagnosis by the Partnership for Responsible Drug Information. She is author of Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions, as well as other writings on multiply diagnosed clients, and is co-author of Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol.
Andrew Tatarsky holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the City College of New York. He has a private practice specializing in harm reduction psychotherapy with drug and alcohol users and he is co-director, with Dr. Mark Sehl, of the Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates in New York City. His perspective on the treatment of substance use problems has evolved over twenty two years of experience working as counselor, psychotherapist, supervisor, program director, teacher and public speaker. Dr. Tatarsky has presented widely in the area of substance use and harm reduction. He is a founding member and president-elect of the Addiction Division of the New York State Psychological Association and chair of the board of Moderation Management.Dr. Tatarsky is the author / editor of Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems. He has taught at The New School University, The City College of New York and The Alcoholism Council of New York.
G. Alan Marlatt is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University in 1968. After serving on the faculties of the University of British Columbia (1968-1969) and the University of Wisconsin (1969-1972), he joined the University of Washington faculty in the fall of 1972. His major focus in both research and clinical work is the field of addictive behaviors. In addition to over 200 journal articles and book chapters, he has published several books in the addictions field, including Relapse Prevention (1985; 2005), Assessment of Addictive Behaviors (1988; 2005), Harm Reduction (1998), and Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS): A Harm Reduction Approach (1999). Over the course of the past 30 years, he has received continuous funding for his research from a variety of agencies including the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 1990, Dr. Marlatt was awarded The Jellinek Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to knowledge in the field of alcohol studies, in 2001 he was given the Innovators in Combating Substance Abuse Award by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and in 2004 he received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism.
Dr. Frederick Rotgers received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. He has been a member of the Clinical Psychology faculty at Phuiladelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2002. He is Board Certified in both Clinical Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, as well as a member of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, the New Jersey Psychological Association, the American Association of Correctional Psychology, and the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Drug Issues and Addiction Research and Theory. Active in the harm reduction movement in substance abuse treatment, Dr. Rotgers served as President of the Board of Directors of Moderation Management Network, Inc. (MM), a self-help support group for problem drinkers who are considering moderation rather than abstinence. He is co-author of Responsible Drinking, A Moderation Management approach for problem drinkers and co-editor of Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique Dr. Rotgers' research interests include motivational approaches to treatment, offender rehabilitation, and moderation approaches to substance abuse treatment and integrating harm reduction approaches into traditional substance abuse treatment.
Allan Clear has been the Executive Director of the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) since late 1995. HRC, through its training institute, conferencing, resource development, and policy work, is the leading national organization promoting harm reduction as a mode of working with drug users in the United States. Mr. Clear was the original Executive Director of the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, one of the five original New York City syringe exchange programs authorized in 1992. He is a member of the North American Syringe Exchange Network and the New York Commission on AIDS. Barbara C. Wallace, PhD Barbara C. Wallace is Associate Professor of Health Education in the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her scholarly interests include: primary, secondary and tertiary violence prevention in school- and community-based settings, domestic violence, addictions and dependencies especially to crack and cocaine, drug abuse and HIV/AIDS, and health promotion in multicultural settings. Selected publications include Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families: Prevention, Intervention and Treatment for Community Health Promotion (Praeger) and Crack Cocaine: A Practical Treatment Approach for the Chemically Dependent (Brunner/Mazel).
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Jeannie Little, LCSW
Patt Denning, PhD
Andrew Tatarsky, PhD 
G. Alan Marlatt, PhD 
Frederick Rotgers, PsyD ABPP
Associate Professor of Psychology, PCOM, Philadelphia
Allan Clear
George A. Parks, PhD
