Breathe Life Healing Centers presents:
Tom Horvath
SMART Recovery and the self-empowering approach to change
- Friday May 7th, 2021
- 6:00 - 7:00pm PST
- Live via ZOOM
SMART Recovery and the self-empowering approach to change.
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About this Event
Dr. Horvath is a California licensed (PSY7732) and board certified clinical psychologist. He has specialized in addictive problems since 1985. He is the founder and president of Practical Recovery Psychology Group in San Diego, past president of the American Psychological Association (APA)’s Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50; the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists), and author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions, recommended as a self-help book by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Tom will be discussing:
- Brief description of SMART and its mutual help meetings
- Similarities and differences between 12-step and SMART
- The roots of SMART (and CBT) in Stoicism
- The future of multiple pathways of recovery
Tom has been an instructor of graduate addiction courses at Alliant International University and the University of San Diego. For 20 years he was the volunteer president of SMART Recovery (established 1994), an international non-profit offering free, self-empowering, science-based addiction mutual help groups. He is a fellow of the San Diego Psychological Association, ABCT and APA.
