The Advanced International Winter Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Behavioral Health, and Mental Health has provided addiction specialists, counselors, and behavioral health professionals with world-class education and training for 51 years. This symposium creates unprecedented opportunities to share knowledge, perspectives, and build community.
The 2025 Winter Symposium attracted 1,400 attendees, including 27 Educational Supporters and 120 Exhibitors.
The 2026 Winter Symposium includes exhibits, plenaries, and networking opportunities related to:
- Suicide prevention
- Substance use disorders
- Family therapy
- Ethics training
- Self-care
- Trauma therapy
- Integrative care
- Mindfulness in recovery
- Depression and bipolar disorder
- Peer recovery specialist training
Our attendees include many of the most esteemed addictions specialists, behavioral, and mental health practitioners including:
- Addiction treatment providers
- Mental health providers
- Peer recovery specialists
- Military and state agencies
- Residential and outpatient providers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Addiction Medicine Specialists
- LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCs, LACs, EAPs
SYMPOSIUM PURPOSE AND CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To improve health professional attendees' evidence-based diagnostic assessment, treatment, knowledge and practice skills specific to reducing health care provider care gaps and facilitating integrative care related to a broad spectrum of addictive disorders, behavioral and mental health disorders.
Attendees completing the full symposium will be able to identify 5 or more evidence-based diagnostic/assessment measures, treatment interventions, practice gap reduction measures and integrative care interventions including psychotherapies, psychosocial treatments, medical and integrative care, self-help care and adjunctive care interventions for persons manifesting the broad spectrum of disorders and conditions included in this educational program.