Jeff is a clinical interventionist and addiction specialist. He has been guiding families into recovery for more than 30 years. His work has appeared on CNN, the Jane Pauley Show, PBS, Forbes Online, and many professional journals.
Jeff is the coauthor (with Debra Jay) of the best-selling book Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention, (3rd edition, 2021, Hazelden). His recovery memoir from Hazelden is Navigating Grace, a solo voyage of survival and redemption. He is also the co-author of At Wit’s End: What You Need to Know When a Loved One Is Diagnosed with Addiction and Mental Illness, (with Jerry Boriskin Ph.D., Hazelden).
Jeff Jay is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and a certified alcohol and drug counselor, and a certified intervention professional (CIP). Jeff currently serves as a board member of the Association of Intervention Specialists; the editorial board of Human Development magazine; and on the advisory board of Jefferson House, in Detroit, MI. He has previously served as president of the Terry McGovern Foundation in Washington, DC, and on the board of directors of the Michigan Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors, Dawn Farm Treatment Center, and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association of Greater Detroit.
He heads a national private practice that provides intervention and recovery mentoring services. He served as a clinician with Hazelden and also Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center. His personal recovery dates from October 4, 1981.
“I am passionate about intervention for a very simple reason,” says Jeff. “Intervention saved my life.”
Leveraging the Power of Family to Achieve Durable Recovery
How can clinicians build on American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Dimension 6 to leverage the power of family to promote treatment and recovery? Jeff Jay provides practical guidance for intervention, treatment, family involvement, and durable recovery. Based on the book, Love First, a family’s guide to intervention, by Jeff Jay and Debra Jay, (Hazelden, 2021).
Addiction is described as a “family disease,” but families have usually been marginalized in the treatment and recovery equation. Yet we know involved, supportive families can play a critical role in the recovery process, fro...Read morem intervention through long-term recovery. Guidance for providing structure to bring families into the process.
Research in neuroscience provides an evidence-based and comprehensive understanding of addiction that fits well with the experiences of people needing, seeking, and in recovery. There are several insightful and well-articulated arguments challenging the disease conceptualization of addiction, but two important areas of research – epigenetics and psychoneuroimmunology – greatly advance awareness of how environmental stress creates vulnerability to addiction.
This lecture will review the most up-to-date science of addiction, the current arguments for and against addiction’s conceptualization as a disease, and how the principles of recovery management counter the pathophysiology of addiction and improve. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Recognize and identify at least two action-stopping myths.
- Explain ways in which family/friend participation in the recovery process benefits both the newly recovering individual and the family.
- Identify the key elements of a successful Intervention.
- Explain the 7-point Love First intervention letter.
- Identify key elements of developing a family recovery team.
- Describe the power of the recovering community.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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Jeff Jay, BSc, CADC, CIP
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