What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am Goldpony and today we are in the new 2020 Honda pilot courtesy of Apple Honda in York PA. They are getting a new building by the way So that's definitely exciting, but today we are any super reliable three-row SUV and for those of you who don't already know I've owned several Hondas in the past so I am quite partial to them So what do you say? Let's go ahead and just jump right into it and as always let's start with pricing And so as expected there will be several different trim levels for the 2020 pilot first one being the LX starting at $31,550 then you have the EX for $34,430 EXL for $37,860 Turing will start at $42,620 then there is the elite which will start at $48,120 and lastly the one we're in today the black edition starting at $49,620 and by the way That is a new trim level for 2020 so I'm excited to be in that one for that reason But for all of those trim levels But the last two the elite and black edition will come standard with all-wheel drive for any of the other ones That was pricing for the front-wheel drive to add all-wheel drive to any of those trim levels simply add $2,000 to any of those prices But so then when it comes to the power plant actually regardless of trim level that power plant will be the same Powering the 2020 pilot will come from a 3.5 liter naturally aspirated V6 Putting out 280 horsepower at 6,000 rpm 262 pound-feet of torque available at 4700 rpm Power like I said is going to be sent to either front wheels or all wheels through Honda's intelligent all-wheel drive system And that power is going to be sent to the ground through two different transmission options Dependent upon the trim level so for instance if you go with the LX EX or EXL You will get a six-speed automatic if you want with the touring elite or black edition You will get a nine-speed automatic with paddle shifters, which of course you guys know We will be testing out in a little bit here But regardless when it comes to MPG numbers They will differ ever so slightly between those two transmission setups 18 in the city 26 on the highway for the six-speed 19 city 26 highway for the nine-speed automatic But either way the Honda pilot will take regular unleaded fuel aka 87 octane So that's going to be nice to save you a little bit of money at the pump there too But so you guys know what we have to do next since I've now rambled off all of those specs Let's do a quick little acceleration test with the paddle shifters I want to see how quickly they react for us here and let's see how quickly we can get this new 2020 Honda pilot here up to speed Wow All right, I'm digging it That felt pretty good for it SUV actually I'm quite surprised acceleration Definitely no issues with merging onto the highway I do want to add something though if you press that drive mode button again. That is actually a sport mode So when I did that it did immediately downshift for me So it held the rpms in a much higher level than it would otherwise Giving you more power on demand as far as paddle shifters go. They were actually quite quick. It's kind of impressed I've played around with Honda's paddle shifters before and they haven't always been the quickest But I gotta say I'm pretty impressed with the Honda pilots paddle shifters So well done Honda but so then to take it back out of that manual shifting mode If you wanted to do that simply just press that drive mode button once again And that gives full control back to the pilot but to go along with that acceleration as always Braking is equally important. And so upfront you will find 12.6 inch Betelated front discs in the back 13 inch solid rear discs as far as the braking feel goes It's felt perfectly fine to me so far today So definitely no issues there they're touching a little bit on suspension and handling up front You're gonna get a McPherson strut front suspension in the back a multi-link rear suspension Front and rear stabilizer bars of course as far as the ride quality goes it is pretty much as expected So it's definitely soaking up Pennsylvania's road imperfections quite nicely So right on par with the other SUVs in its class and it was she's there as far as steering feel goes It actually feels pretty good I would say a little bit heavier of a weight than some of the other three row SUVs that I've tested Which is a good thing in my opinion so steering feel is definitely quite nice as well But what are the best parts about the driving dynamics at least in my opinion is in Pennsylvania We do get some snow every now and then in the winter and the fall actually as well So we do want to mention there are some traction management drive modes that come standard on the 2020 Honda pilot This is an awesome thing giving you normal of course That's what it defaults to but there's also snow sand and mud Emphasis on snow at least for us Pennsylvanians here. That's pretty cool But by simply pressing that button that will give you a couple different options there And that's essentially going to adjust the throttle response shift points and the all-wheel drive system Engagement as well touching on cabin noise a little bit It is definitely a quiet ride on the interior here The only thing that you may be hearing is the air conditioner because it is getting a little bit hotter So I wanted to have that on as well as the ventilated seats also cooling me down quite nicely But nonetheless cabin noise is definitely quite nice And I did want to mention contributing to that if you were to go with the EXL trim leveling up You will also get acoustic glass on the windshield So that is going to help absorb some of that exterior sound as well So that is definitely a plus in my book But then touching on visibility a little bit I will say there are some third row headrests if you have them up They will hinder visibility ever so slightly but other than that quite honestly the general rule is the more boxy of an SUV It is the better visibility you're gonna have so comparatively speaking to some of the others in its class visibility is definitely quite nice because of its shape So that is a plus in my book But now let's go ahead and make our way to the exterior on the 2020 pilot because like I said We do have the all-new trim level for 2020 I did want to touch a little bit on that as well Of course go over everything else about the exterior to all right So when it comes to the exterior of the 2020 Honda pilot since we have the black edition Let me just sum this edition up as far as exterior styling goes anywhere You would previously see chrome or silver accents simply replace them with black accents and you have the black edition More or less along with of course this cool black edition lettering in the front grille That is of course another addition to the black edition as expected But anyhow putting this specific trim level aside up front You will find LED low beam headlights for every single trim level with the automatic feature Meaning when it starts to get dark up the headlights will turn on automatically for you there LED fog lights are gonna come standard on the EX trim level and up and that is of course gonna be found just below there But full LED headlights are gonna come with the touring trim level and up that is LED Low beam and high beam and the housings for the headlights are actually gonna differ slightly as well Depending if you go with the full LED headlights or the low beam LED headlights So what you were looking at right now, of course is the full LED headlight housing look So I did just want to mention that so LED daytime rally lights will also come standard and of course front and center You will find that super large Honda logo definitely looks good up there But now let's go ahead and make our way to the side on this one taking a look up top roof rails Are going to come standard with the touring trim level and up that is of course what you were looking at right now Just below that rear privacy glass that is gonna come standard for every single trim level Chrome windows surrounds are gonna come standard for every single trim level, but the black edition So therefore you are seeing black windows surrounds on this one as opposed to the chrome that you will typically otherwise find But take a look at the side mirrors body colored power adjustable side mirrors will come standard on every single trim level If you go with the EX trim level and up that is gonna give you heated sign mirrors with integrated turn signals So that is of course what you were looking at right now then zooming out a little bit Let's take a look at the wheel setup here 18 inch alloy wheels will come standard with the LX EX and EXL trim levels 20 inch alloy wheels are gonna come with the touring elite and black edition And of course those three trims of course will vary slightly in design But they will all be 20 inches as far as the size goes Also wanted to mention chrome accents on the side skirts can be found with the EX trim level and up And as I previously mentioned those chrome accents therefore are replaced with black accents since we do have the black edition But now let's go ahead and make our way to the pack You will find a shark fin antenna up top there rear spoiler with an integrated brake light will come standard on all trim levels Just below that a rear window wiper LED brake lights actually standard on every single trim level So well done Honda for that and of course just below those tail lights You will actually find trim level badging back there as well and just below all of it You will find a single exhaust outlet for every single trim level one of the things I wish Honda did on their SUVs is put dual exhaust outlets since it has a v6 and also have them exposed I've always liked that look a little better But nonetheless you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip And so but now since we all round back when it comes to opening that rear lift gate There is a power tailgate if you were to go with the EX trim level and up and a Hands-free tailgate if you went with the touring trim level and up So that is definitely pretty nice as well and you can actually push the button on the key file That is another way you can open that up if you wanted to but once opened up as far as cargo capacity goes behind that third row You're gonna find sixteen point five cubic feet if you wanted to fold that down behind the second row It's gonna come in at forty six point eight cubic feet and with all rows folded that is gonna give you eighty three point nine Cubic feet so good bit of space back there for reference I have a three row Hyundai Santa Fe which comes in an even eighty cubic feet So it is a good bit of space is what I'm trying to get out there That is definitely quite nice We'll also find a cargo area light back there for cargo tie-down anchors some grocery hooks And there is some hidden storage back there as well So a bunch of pluses when it comes to the cargo area, but now let's make our way to the rear leg room Third row is gonna come in at thirty one point nine inches so definitely kind of tight back there for reference I am an even six feet tall give this a shot for you guys This is how much space I have back there, but I will say one thing you guys are gonna notice that a second here Honda is Excelling at is putting a ton of cup holders in their SUVs for instance for cup holders for the third row passengers there Making your way up to the second row. You're gonna find six cup holders and 38.4 inches of rear leg room again for reference. I am an even six feet tall This is how much space I have back there But six cup holders for two passengers in the second row is three beverages per person So quite a bit of cup holders there also some pluses for this rear passengers There is rear ventilation for all rows second row sunshades if you go with the EXL trim leveling up And this is a major plus if you have a newborn you're gonna find this out If you just had your first newborn that sun will beam into their eyes And they will squint like there's no tomorrow if you don't have sunshades back there And yes, you can buy them at Walmart But they are not going to be as nice or cover as much of an area as they otherwise would if you got them directly from the factory So again second row sunshades for the EXL trim leveling up also heated second row seats for the touring trim leveling up And by the way when it comes to the seating configurations That center row will come with a bench seat giving you seating up to eight for the LX EX and EXL trim levels and it will come with captains chairs aka seating for seven if you were to go with the Elite or black edition, but I left a trim level out there The touring trim level can actually be had either way with a bench seat or the captains chairs in case you were curious But there is of course plenty of hookups back there including a 115 volt power outlet So girls you could literally plug in a hair dryer in that second row if you wanted to which is kind of funny But also USB charging ports back there auxiliary port There's a ton of connection hookups But perhaps the coolest part is the rear entertainment system can be found with the touring trim level and up And that is going to fold down from the roof and of course you could play blu-rays on that if you wanted to but you can Also connect it to your smartphone to play YouTube videos if you wanted to for instance some car reviews Maybe from YouTube on that rear entertainment system or whatever, but but I knew I didn't think that was pretty cool But now make your way to the front seats cloth seating is going to come with the LX and EX trim levels You will find leather seating if you want with the EXL trim level and up EX trim level and up It's going to give you a 10-way power driver seat with power lumbar EXL is going to add a power passenger seat and you will find heated front seats with the EX trim level and up and Ventilated front seats as well if you want with the elite trim level and up But then taking a look up front at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping It is leather wrapped for the EXL trim level and up in case you guys are curious the EXL L meaning leather of course and if you wanted that steering wheel heated simply go with the elite trim level and up But then now let's make our way to the startup actually Let me first start by showing you guys the key here You do your Honda logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock unlock that button to pop the rear hatch And actually there is that circular button that is going to be your remote start as well So that is pretty cool that we have that there But either way every single trim level is going to give you a bright red push button start paying homage to the old Honda s 2000 which I learned to drive manual on I absolutely love that carpet either way All you're gonna want to do is simply just put your foot on the brake and press that engine start button located just by the Drivers right knee there and but so then once started up There is a large digital display front and center fuel information is gonna be all the way on your right Engine temp is on your left But front and center you're gonna find your RPMs at the very top There is gonna be a digital readout just below that to control what is on that digital display simply use the Steering wheel mounted controls found on the left side there But through that you could check out your trip information Bluetooth information Navigation information when you need your next oil change essentially there's a ton of stuff you could check out up there But let's make our way now to overall interior quality the power moon roof that you're looking at right now That is gonna come with the EXL trim level and up and in this black edition that we have today There is a power moon roof for the rear passengers as well That actually goes all the way into the third row it is a massive rear power moon roof I absolutely love it it lets in so much more lighting for videos like this But that is super awesome also ambient lighting is gonna come with the touring trim level and up and that touring trim Leveling up is also gonna give you illuminated cup holders to go along with that if you wanted homelink controls for up three different Garage doors, you're gonna want the EXL trim level and up Sunglass holder with the rear conversation mirror Honda calls it that is an interesting name for that That is gonna come with the EX trim level and up essentially that Conversation mirror that is like the school bus mirror where you can kind of spy on the rear passengers So that's gonna be there for you try zoom climate control is gonna come with the EX trim leveling up And of course since we have the black edition there are plenty of black accents throughout this one including black edition Lettering at the top part of the seats also found that pretty cool just in front of that sunglass holder There is actually LED interior lighting also was a big fan of that and just in front of all the gear selector buttons There is going to actually be a wireless phone charger on the black edition that we have today Along with the 12-volt power outlet USB charging port dual cup holders just behind that and an absolutely Massive storage area right behind those cup holders giving you once again a Another 12-volt power outlet and another USB charging port So and there is also a sliding tray within that massive storage area as well But when it's closed it does have kind of a cool texture to the top of it It's like a red blackish kind of texture So don't want to mention that it is pretty cool But let's now make our way to the tech display up front for the LX trim level You're gonna get a five inch LCD screen if you went with the EX trim level and up However, you will find an eight inch high resolution color touchscreen display Which of course is what you're looking at right now But either way you will still get Bluetooth and audio streaming regardless of what screen size you go with But if you went with this eight inch color touchscreen display You're gonna also get Android Auto and Apple CarPlay And that's the one that you want to get because that gives you free Navigation through your smartphone as well as the ability to liken this like your Pandora songs up there And if you wanted factory navigation if you live in the mountains Maybe go with the touring trail level and up and you can of course check out your radio settings up there as well And by the way when it comes to the sound system You will find seven speakers with a subwoofer and 215 watts if you want with the LX EX and EXL However, if you want with the touring trim level and up you're gonna get a 10 speaker sound system with the subwoofer 590 watts which pretty much means that we do have to test this one out today So what do you say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio here see what we got playing this morning And let's test out the clarity of this one Love love this sound system we have in the pilot here today. That was an extended version I only played a short clip of what I actually listened to that is how much I liked this sound system Not of course my favorite I've ever tested that goes to Bowers and Wilkins But still an amazing sound system on the black edition trim level that we have today But so the last thing on the tech display I wanted to mention to you guys is when you do put the 2020 pilot in reverse You will find a rear view camera for every single trim level Letting you know who or what is behind you Which is always is going to lead us into safety And so let me first start by saying the Honda pilot did get a IIHS top safety pick rating, which is excellent Well done Honda for that front side and side curtain airbags will come standard in the back You're gonna have latch aka lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats Also rear child door locks back there tire pressure monitoring system This stuff is all pretty basic at this point But where Honda really shines when it comes to safety is something called Honda sensing which comes standard on every single trim level And this is going to include a collision mitigation braking system road departure mitigation system Adaptive cruise control lane keep assist forward collision warning lane departure warning and automatic high beams a lot of their safety features You do have to pay extra for with other manufacturers So well done Honda for that and in addition to that if you want with the EX trim level enough That is also going to add a blind spot monitor with rear cross-traffic alert and so but anyways that is about it for this one You guys thank you so much for watching feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen If you like be sure to hit the subscribe button in the bell notification button if you are into new car reviews That is what we do here on this channel Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys in the next video Stay gold


What's up, everybody? Jason here from jaspyscasebreaks.com, 2020 Penini Prison Football Hobby, two box break, number 24, two-round and teams just sold out. Nick has uploaded another one, so I believe number 25 would be from a fresh case, but remember, this is the last two boxes of the case, I think, previously.  So good luck, everybody. Here's a dice roll-out. Let's roll it. We've got a three and a one, four times. Here's a customer name's Avery, then a Jeff, four times, one, two, three, and four. Four times, Michael, down to Kyle. All right, three and a one, four times, one, two, three, four. All right, so we've got that. Case of that, I'm ready. Four times here. Eagles are number one, down to the Rams. So now you have my Eagles, Kyle with the Falcons, John with the Ravens, Phillip, you have the Washington football team, Tom with the Chiefs, Shawnee of the Chargers, Phillip with the Titans, Meggie with the Vikings, Aaron Clark with the Fort Danvers, Nick Thorin with the Bears, Jeff with the Steelers, Michael Johnson with the Dolphins, Michael Lassie with the Patriots, Auburn with the Broncos, Shawnee with the Lions, Tyler with the Texans and Panthers, Jeff with the Bucks, Meggie with the Browns, Nick Thorin with the Jets, Daniel with the Raiders, John with the Cardinals, Daniel with the Bengals, Ben Corleades, Meggie with the Jaguars, Brian with the Cowboys, Auburn with the Saints, Brian Atkinson with the Giants, Meggie with the Packers, Michael with the Bills, Tom with the Seahawks, Aaron Clark with the Colts, and Kyle Cardinals with the Los Angeles Rams. Again, if anybody wants to trade, oh, Brian, fly, go fly, baby.  But if no one wants to trade, man, I mean, I wouldn't mind pulling some hits for you. That's right, man, go birds. So again, if anybody wants to trade, let me know. Hustle, are you Aubrey? I just want to make sure, you know, just double check. But yeah, if you guys want to do Denver for the Giants, I'll do that trade. I'll do that trade, sorry. Okay, cool. All right, then so then we'll just, we'll do that trade then. I can do the two for one as well. Brian, I don't know if you're interested in the Titans and Washington for the Cowboys. I believe you also have the Cowboys. But if not, I'm closing it right now. So let me know. Alrighty, well, I'm going to take it as a no or wait, yes or no, Brian. I'm going to close the trade window, but I'm going to allow this trade if you and Phillip want to do the two for one. So let me know. Okay, you're good with that, Phillip. I know you proposed it. So just want to make sure. Let's just do the first trade then really quick. So Giants for Broncos, trade module there, and then there you go there. Now we had another trade guys. I know you guys are watching. We had Titans and Washington for the Cowboys. Excuse me. All right, sorry about that. All right, so Giants. That was that double trade there. And then now Brian, you will have here. You also have here now. So there you go. There's the trades. All right, guys. So these are the last two boxes of the case. I'm assuming number 24, number 25 would be from a fresh case. So there we have two trades. So Phillip now has the Cowboys and he traded Titans and Washington football team for both, two for one. And then Aubrey now has the Giants and then Brian has the Broncos. So there you go. A couple trades. Let's see how it works out. Two boxes here. All I'm saying is Mike, you know who's going to want that. I'm not really collecting a rainbow for him, but if you were to pull something low like that, I'll definitely take it off the end. All right, let's finish off the next box. Definitely Jeremy for sure. I just feel like with basketball, it just scales so much quicker because only two, you know, only really two draft draft rounds league is much smaller player wise. So when those players just tear it up, it just it just skyrockets. But football definitely is still number one king for like higher at for a heavy base project. This prism is always going to be number one. You know, then you would think like optics of the Raider rookies mosaic has really kicked in that too.  But yeah, prism will always be number one for football and for basketball. Not sure Joe, like I told people I'll stay to break some of that immaculate if you guys wanted to. But if you know, we don't fill that and then probably call it a night. My first day back from being out from cold for the last couple weeks. So try to get it done guys. All right, we got CD lamb and Rashad Evans. Jeff Ocuda. Blake Jarwin. Ice Joe. Get some radius for you. And we got George Kittle to 149. Tyler Johnson. We got DJ Moore. Nice color match right there. Carolina Panthers. Tyler with that one. Colkman Jordan Love. We got Philip Rivers. The Indianapolis Colts. Aaron Clark with that one. JK Dobbins. We got a little rival right there. Nick Chubb Silver. I just do love that the silvers pop so well now this year. Like back in the day like 2013 prism and stuff like that. The first year or two. It just pops so much. Champ Ailey. I mean I guess all the colors pop but Silver is by far the best. I had a 125. Michael Pippin Jr. DJ Dallas. Tuva Togova Loa and a Devin Ossi Ossi. I mean I don't know out of 75. I mean Rodgers has a great case. Mahomes has a great case. It's gonna be it's gonna be interesting what people decide to vote. I have a feeling most people are still gonna vote Mahomes but I mean I'm not I wouldn't be upset for whoever it was. I mean they all had really good seasons but I mean I guess Jeff Ocuda nice with color right here for the Detroit Lions. I had a 249. But you know Mahomes does win it. I mean it's I mean he deserves a two and it's just his resume would just be growing like crazy. Oh we got a patch auto. Oh colors you want to see. Or bears. Wow okay I thought that was Bangles for the first second. Kolkmet. A little three-color patch and autograph. Bears. Nick Thornton. I wish to have another autograph right. Larry Fitzgerald out of 49. Purple Power. John and Taylor. And we got Lawyer Maloy for the Patriots. Michael with that one. Sensational signatures. Number to 50. Alrighty guys. Last box right here guys. We got Evan Ingram. Silver. Tradavius White to 149. Little Jordan Love. Oh what is this? Is this a camel coming out? No it's an instant impact. Justin Jefferson. It's a Justin Jefferson type of night. I don't know if these are like a case hit or something. I think I've seen these once or twice. A very nice looking card. Minnesota Vikings. It's been a mega. Pain Manning. Oh this is a beautiful looking card. Little Blue Ice. 3 out of 99. And Jeff Galadney. Our first auto. Another one there for the Vikings. John and Taylor. Cutting the homes. And Tyler Higby for the Rams. And Bill Bates. Super Bowl autographs. That's on card. Love that they made him chrome. This was a trade mojo. Phillip. Now how's the Cowboys? And there you go. Alright well don't worry guys. There's still going to be some crazy color here. So we'll see what there is. Just don't know the stack after this little stack I have here. Emmett Smith. Another one there for the Cowboys. Out of 199. AJ Dillon. Nick Chubb. I like that watching them and watching Notre Dame. They're so similar. My lost stack right here guys. Camakers. Got a camo and it's a rookie. Terrell Lewis. Camo rookie for the Los Angeles Rams going to Kyle Carlos. There you go. A little camo out of 25. Some nice color right there. Another Emmett Smith. Collector Rainbow. Out of 249. Alright lost little stack right here guys. Good luck. Juju Smith Schuster. Then we got a little Joe Burrow base for the Bengals. I should have one more color here. Maybe a potential silver rookie. No just bigger. Regular silver. Phillip Rivers for the Colts. And then we got Darrington Evans rookie. Red Ruby wave. Headed for the Titans. Went to Bryan. Atkinson. Little trade mojo right there. And there you go guys. That was the two box hobby. Number 24. I'll do a quick little recap for the autographs and stuff. Alright so here you go. Some camos. Some nice colors of course. More rookies there. Little purple power there. Lurifus Gerald. Little Devonasiasi. Green scope. And then of course Jeff Gladney. Bill Bates. Laurie Malloy. Little Kulkman patch auto. And a little instant impact. Justin Jefferson. Little insert right there. So appreciate it guys. JaskiesCaseBricks.com.


This episode was prerecorded as part of a live continuing education webinar. On-demand CEUs are still available for this presentation through all CEUs. Register at allceus.com slash counselor toolbox. I'd like to welcome everybody to Improving Cultural Competence, SAMHSA, tip 59, and this is part three of three parts. This one is going to be a little bit interesting because we're going to be talking about the recovery versus the mental illness culture and the addiction culture. But one of the things that I find kind of conceptually challenging is up to now, we've been talking about how to avoid a culturation. And we've been trying to talk about how to be more culturally sensitive. When we talk about the cultures that we're going to talk about today, we are actually talking about trying to get people to change their culture. Now, theoretically, if they're coming to treatment, they've identified that, yes, I'm looking for a change. But it is kind of an interesting shift in paradigm since we know that changing culture adds a lot of extra stress. So, you know, we're just going to kind of look at it and take it as it comes. I'm going to review elements that constitute a culture. I'm going to go through some of that stuff real quickly just to hit the highlights for the people who weren't here for the first two. We will define and explore, and I use this term loosely, the addiction culture. We will also define and explore the recovery culture for addictions as well as mental health stuff. We will define and explore the culture of mental health recovery. And for that, I selected only DBT. There are a lot of different cultures that we could have looked at, but in an hour, I can only just kind of give you some examples. We'll theorize about the struggles clients experience when becoming acculturated into the recovery culture, whether it's mental health or substance abuse, and hypothesize interventions and methods which can help clients embrace the recovery culture. Remembering from behavior modification 101, people do, living things do, what is most beneficial? So, we need to look at what are the benefits to this culture that they are in right now to the behaviors that they are engaging in, and how can we help them meet those needs if they want to, and we're assuming they do because they're in treatment, if they want to embrace a recovery culture. We want to look at what types of things need to be there, what types of needs were they getting met over here that we need to make sure get met in the new culture. So again, culture can be seen as a frame through which one looks at the world, a repertoire of beliefs and practices that can be used as needed, a narrative or story explaining who people are and why they do what they do, a set of instructions defining different aspects of values and traditions, and a series of boundaries that use values and traditions to delineate one group of people from another. And we're going to talk about a couple different groups of people here. And we're using this term culture in this presentation pretty loosely, but I do want you to theorize or at least kind of open your mind to the fact that there are certain groups of people that we may work with that do have their own sort of culture, and we need to understand that in order to be able to help them the best. So let's look at continuum of cultural competence in terms of recovery. At stage one culturally destructive, the clinician and the organization we negate the relevance of culture and the delivery of behavioral health. So we're saying we don't care what you want, we don't care what you think is going to work for you. This is what the guidelines say. And we run into that a lot in recovery when we talk about abstinence versus harm reduction to very different camps, most programs are centered around abstinence. So if the person comes from a culture, especially when we're talking about opiate based drug use, harm reduction may be a culturally accepted intervention. So we don't necessarily want to look at that. When we look at some other addictive behaviors, if you will, sex addiction and eating disorders, for example, those things aren't necessarily things you can abstain from. So and, you know, we want to look at how does that fit with that person's view of what recovery looks like. Okay, so that's addiction. But then what about mental health? Well, in mental health treatment, an organizational organization can be culturally destructive if they determine what happiness is. You are going to work towards these goals. Recovery, lack of depression, lack of anxiety, happiness looks like this. This is the picture that everybody wants. Well, that's not necessarily true. So we want to understand from the client's perspective, from their culture, what does happiness look like to them. Cultural incapacity, expects clients to conform to generalized services such as going to therapy groups, 12 step based treatment. So we're still not necessarily embracing the nuances between the different people and the different cultural groups that are out there. And it's going to be a little bit easier to understand the culture once we get into it. Cultural blindness, we're still trying to uphold the belief that there are no essential differences among individuals across cultural groups.  They've all got addiction. So we're going to put them in the same room. Well, that doesn't work. So there are some things, psycho educational things we can do that are going to probably have cross cutting issues and people with depression and anxiety may benefit if we're talking about coping skills. But there are also unique things that are that each culture may have to deal with. For example, people with sex addiction have different triggers and issues. There are some different triggers and issues than somebody with a gambling addiction or alcohol addiction and we're going to look at some of those cultural pre competence. We start to understand that people are different. You can't say an addiction is an addiction is an addiction or depression is depression is depression because it is somewhat different or you can't put all mental health people in the same groups.  And we understand that they may have different triggers and different needs. So it's important to expand that and look at the nuances among the clients. And organizational cultural competence. We're really starting to recognize that people need different interventions. People who are trying to stop smoking. I mean, tobacco addiction nicotine addiction is an addiction. And we don't want to necessarily downplay it but it has its own separate set of needs and approaches, then opiates then alcohol and some of your behavioral addictions. Likewise, we want to look at the mental health issues and how do we treat it what is the best course of treatment for each thing and what works for that client from their culture and what how they define recovery. So there are many forces at work that pressure a person to alter his or her cultural identity to conform to the mainstream cultures concept of a proper identity. So when we're talking about recovery, it's like, well, what are you talking about here. We're going to start out in most of these examples with addiction because that gives you the most more stark comparison, but the culture of recovery has a certain set of values behaviors, you know, taking care of yourself getting particularly prioritizing responsibility, yada, yada, that the addicted culture or the culture of addiction may not have. When we talk about shooting galleries where people who use injectable drugs go. There is a whole culture around that if people use illicit drugs there's a whole culture around how to obtain illicit drugs how to use illicit drugs, how to make their own illicit drugs. And the 420 culture, for example, that is a culture that is involved with centered around the use of marijuana, and some people are very 420 friendly and other people are not but they have their own lingo. When somebody chooses to go into recovery. You're not using you're not going to the same places you're not engaging in the same activities may not be hanging with the same people, you may, but you may not. So we want to look at what changes for people and what stress does that put on them. When I started working in substance abuse.  You've got to like changing your underwear, and we expected it would be that easy you just got to cut those people off and start new. That's not sensitive, let alone culturally sensitive. So, understanding what in this current culture, what in this addicted culture, or, you know, depressive culture or whatever you want to. Whatever the person identifies, what is important to him or her in that culture, because those are the things that are going to be hardest to give up. So, and we may not necessarily say you have to give them all up. We may encourage somebody to modify. So for example, if they are the person you're working with is an alcoholic. And they have a lot of friends and family who drink wine, or drink beer at games, or whatever the case may be. It may not be culturally appropriate to say well you can't hang out with your friends or family at any sort of gatherings anymore because they drink. And it may not be culturally or socially appropriate for them to tell their family well you can't drink around me. You have to figure out a way to help that person bridge the gap between the things that are important to them in, you know, one of their important to one of their cultural identities, as well as important to them in their recovery which is going to become a new identity. A lot of times we encourage people or encourage is probably the wrong word but we, we use terms like, I am depressed, I am an addict, I am a believe it, I am this, I am that. So it becomes part of them, which makes them internalize an identity. So if they give up the depression, if they give up the eating disorder, if they give up the addiction, who are they, if they're not an addict anymore, or if they're not depressed anymore. They've always said I am depressed. Well if you're not depressed, what are you. So it's something they have to come to a new definition of and a new understanding of for them. People may feel conflicted about their identities wanting to fit in with the mainstream culture or the new culture of recovery, while also wanting to retain the values or certain aspects and culture of origin in this case would be the unhelpful or unhealthy culture that they're coming from. And I have a hard time finding a word to describe that the addicted the depressed culture, we're going to call it the unhealthy culture. For lack of a better term at this point because as people come to us for treatment, they've decided that that's not where they want to be. Sorting through these conflicting cultural expectations and forging a comfortable identity can be an important part of the recovery process. I've worked with a lot of people in addiction that have said, I will not get up at those meetings and say that I'm an addict every day. I will not call myself an addict. I will call myself a person in recovery. They may not accept the disease model they may, but it's important for them to be able to examine how they feel about it, because for example, if they go into a 12 step recovery program. They are going to be expected to conform to that idea that once an addict always an addict so you are an addict. You never are completely recovered you're in remission. And that may not be a comfortable place for them to be. So we'll talk about some more of that as we get into it. Many studies have found that increase in cultivation is associated with higher rates of substance use disorders and mental health issues. Wait a minute. So we're trying to acculturate them to this new culture, but it can cause higher rates of substance use and mental health issues. Particularly when we're looking at that research we're looking at people who are struggling to define that identity and it can become extremely stressful for them. So culturally responsive practice culturally responsive practice reminds us that a client's worldview shapes or his or her perspectives beliefs behaviors beliefs about illness and health, help seeking behaviors, counseling expectations and communication. Let's go through a couple examples. If we're working with somebody with alcoholism. Their perspective of how things should be and what goals to strive for a lot of times people who are defining themselves as alcoholics or have an alcohol addiction will strive for the goal of abstinence and you know that that's fine. Their beliefs about why things happen. You know they may believe that a lot of things in their life happened as a result of their use, which can be true. Behavior surrounding their addictive behaviors so what sorts of behaviors do they do surrounding their alcohol are they hiding their alcohol. Are they you know as it becomes a problem there becomes more ritualized stuff. The beliefs about illness and health may or may not be present as much, but it's important to understand from a, you know, meta concept standpoint. The person that's in front of you what's their belief about illness and health where if we're talking about something that is potentially an addiction. How do they define addiction and how do they conceptualize recovery. What they're thinking is going to be different. So people with alcoholism are often sort of automatically, if you will, refer to 12 step programs which may not be culturally sensitive for a lot of people. So we want to talk to them about what feels comfortable for you as an individual with all of your other worldview stuff taken into account. Some people who are in early recovery or who have addictions have very little expectation of counseling. Some people have very strong expectations, but we want to talk to them about what it is. There are a lot of people in certain recovery programs who don't believe that counseling is necessary and if you work that recovery program you will be just fine. So depending on what culture they're going into counseling may be more or less important and how do they communicate. Now let's jump down to bulimia, which is obviously an eating disorder, not necessarily fitting nicely into addiction, not necessarily fitting nicely into mental health. So it's kind of out there on its own. So their perspective of what goals to strive for. In their use in when they are actively engaging in bulimic behaviors goals often surround success perfection weight oriented goals, how things should be tend to revolve around those things as well. The person who succeeds as the person who meets these certain goals and a lot of it has to do with appearance related appearance related goals. Their beliefs about why things happen and what needs to happen for recovery may be different. Their beliefs about illness and health can change somewhat as they get into the recovery process recognizing that food isn't necessarily their nemesis. So we want to kind of help them. They're going from this place where food is a really scary thing because food equates to getting fat, whereas not saying that that's necessarily how it happens. But culturally, we're going to talk about that in recovery, you need to eat. And one of the scariest things for somebody with an eating disorder is to eat. So let's move on to depression. Somebody with depression may have different goals to strive for in terms of recovery that differ from people who are in active depression who have major depressive disorder who aren't trying to seek recovery at this point. They've kind of given up people who are wanting to seek out recovery are probably going to look for different tools and methods to use. It's important, especially when talking about addictions but to a certain extent mental health to understand the importance of people in this person's life. Let's take depression first. Sometimes you'll work with people who come from very dysfunctional environments and very dysfunctional families. So we want to be careful not to say, well, recovery involves getting away from those people because they're making you sick. We want to help them figure out the importance of particular family ties, how to work with that, how much their family should be involved, how hierarchical the family is and who should be involved and really define the roles and behaviors. In addictions, you may have heard that addiction is a family disease and, you know, if you believe it's disease model or whatever, it's a common phrase that you hear. When someone is an active addiction, a lot of times their family adjusts their behavior in order to accommodate the behaviors of the person with the addiction. So when the person with the addiction is in recovery, the whole family has to shift. There's a whole cultural shift, not only from the person but from the whole family. They have to learn to interpret behaviors differently. They have to learn to set different expectations of how things should be and what's going to happen. So it's a very stressful kind of situation for the entire family. It's not just an identified patient over here. In some cultural groups, families limited to the nuclear family, whereas in other groups, the idea of family typically includes many other people. We need to ask our clients whether you're dealing with someone who has the clinical depression, generalized anxiety addiction, who do they consider family. It may not be blood relatives. It may be the people that they've been living with. Or the people that they hang out with, or the people who are in their particular social group. Remember that family dynamics are going to change as the result of internal or external forces such as acculturation. So when you have a family, and you know, I don't describe systems approach really well, but I'll try, think of it like a rubber band. And normally everything is stretched out and it's a nice perfect circle. But then when one of those people in the family starts to change, that rubber band gets stretched out and everybody else has to accommodate to get that nice circle back. When someone develops addiction, when somebody develops clinical depression, the family adjusts to accommodate and try to support that person the best they can generally. But when they find recovery or when they get into recovery, the family also has to adjust. It's not just like the families, they're operating independently of the person.  When he gets sick, you would think the world was coming to an end. I love the little guy, but if he gets a cold two weeks go by, and he still hasn't left that easy chair. But so we have to adjust as a family to take up for his chores that need to be done to make sure he's getting his homework done. I usually cook different meals, at least initially. By the end of the first week, I'm usually trying to prod him back into the original circle. But it's important to understand and even look at it in terms of something as simple as somebody getting sick or having surgery or having a baby. How things change and how the dynamics of the entire family changes. The same thing is true when somebody has major depressive disorder or addiction. People accommodate to try to support that person and maintain the functioning of the family, despite the fact that this person has changed. So it's like, okay, we've got to reallocate who does what and when. So the drug and recovery culture have certain shared values, beliefs, customs and traditions, and often have their own rituals and behaviors that evolve over time. Members often share similar ways of dressing, more or less. When we're talking about addiction and recovery, this isn't quite as important. But socialization patterns, language and style of communication, very much so. We're going to talk about that. They may have a social hierarchy that gives different status to different members of the culture based on their roles within that culture. And it can be localized to some extent. Some of these may not apply to every culture. For example, celebrate recovery may be very similar all across the world all across the nation. AA is probably pretty similar all across the world all across the nation, but how things actually manifest may not be and you also may have different regional issues that come up. So let's talk about alcohol first. And I want to start by saying alcohol culture does not equal alcoholic. Alcohol addiction is when these behaviors start causing clinically significant distress and the person continues to use them. But there is a whole culture around alcohol. When you use it, what you do, shared values, beliefs, customs and traditions, there are a lot of people who it's kind of an automatic.  These are common sort of societal expectations, if you will, that kind of revolve around alcohol. So if a person is starting to decide that they have a problem with alcohol and they don't want to drink alcohol anymore, how does that work? Because they certainly want to still be able to watch football games and they want to be able to have dinner with friends and go out after work. So how does this change? And how can they stay safe? How can they embrace this recovery lifestyle while not rejecting the parts of that culture that are important to them, namely the people and the activities? If problems arise, a lot of times you'll hear something such as, I'm an alcoholic, not an addict, or at least I'm an alcoholic and not one of those addicts. So there's definite differentiation from people who use illicit drugs unless they're polysubstance abusers, but that's a whole different ball game. There's a bar culture. I don't know how old some of you are, but if you remember back to a show that was popular in the 80s called Cheers, when you went into this bar, everybody knew your name. I mean, it was just the same group of people that came in and they hung out and they kind of shared each other's lives and ups and downs and stuff. Typically people will have the same places that they go and drink partly because it's like on their way home from work or the most common place or the best place in their neighborhood where people like them hang out. So there's a certain culture around the bar, whether, you know, and it depends on the bar exactly what that culture is. Alcohol in some societies and some cultures can be used as rewards, stress reduction, or just an appropriate part of social interactions.  So understanding that there is an alcohol culture, the recovery culture can still have fun. It doesn't mean that they have to divorce themselves completely from the alcohol culture, but they have to know and understand how to make that meld. There may not be similar ways of dressing in the alcohol culture. Often there's not a social hierarchy. There can be different localized differences between alcohol usage and how you use it. I'm a big fan of the Beverly Hillbillies and I kind of laugh because Granny uses her moonshine for everything. You know, it's good for seasoning. It's good for curing headaches. It's good for curing the flu. It can help insomnia. But there are different expectations surrounding, you know, certain alcohol-related activities. Gambling is another thing that we may see in our practice. I mean, a lot of people out there gamble, and it may not be a problem for some people. They may not be a gambling addict, but most gamblers, whether it's a problem or not, have superstitious rituals and may use faulty reasoning when placing bets and gambling. They definitely have their own language. Talking about betting and odds and spreads and this and that goes way over my head. You know, I'm a slot machine girl. If I'm going to gamble at all, it's probably going to be on the nickel slots. So I understand that, but I don't understand how to play blackjack or poker or any of those things that they have their own whole language around. And it can be, and when we talk about localized, you know, online gambling is going to have different language and concepts than maybe betting on the ponies or the dogs or going to casinos or sports bars or even doing something as simple as playing the lottery. And some of you may be going, well, the lottery, how can that be a problem? It isn't necessarily a problem. There's millions of people that play the lottery every day, but there are also some people who they're gambling is playing the lottery and they spend $100, $200, $300 a day buying different scratch off tickets and different lottery tickets, hoping to hit the jackpot.  So eating disorders, eating disorder culture, let me start out by saying is not the same as the food culture. So we're not saying that they're just not even the same. People with eating disorders and people with anorexia differ from people with bulimia differ from people with binge eating disorder in their cultures. They all they're all subcultures. But they do talk about what's okay to eat, what to do after eating, and there's a huge focus on what they consider an acceptable appearance and what fat means. A lot of times when I work with people with eating disorders, you know, one of the things, how you're feeling today, fat. That's not a feeling. So we talk about what does that mean to you. When you see fat, if you feel fat, what does that equate to to you in terms of what other words could you use in place of that so we can get an understanding of what that means. People with eating disorders often have more in common with the fitness culture. They want to talk about exercise and weight loss and reducing body fat percentages and all that stuff and it can become obsessive. Most of the time, now there are exceptions to the rule, but most of the time people with eating disorders are not going to fit in, or even go, even be treatment compliant with going to overeaters anonymous, because overeaters synonymous is different. It deals with something completely different than what a person with an eating disorder is often dealing with, which is the fear of fat and the need for control versus binge eating and overeating. You know, be very sensitive if you're working with a client who happens to have an eating disorder, even if it's a subclinical one, to understand where their focus is. Is it on appearance and fear of fat and need for acceptance, or is it on stress eating and managing that, or something completely different. Is there a social hierarchy? Often with eating disorders there is, and it centers around appearance and body weight, and it's extremely competitive. So one of the things that drives me crazy when I hear stories about people with eating disorders or recovery, when they start talking about, well, this person had a really bad eating disorder, they got down to XYZ pounds, but now they've recovered and they're up to XYZ pounds. Well, it's not about pounds, but as soon as someone with an active eating disorder hears that somebody else got down to a certain weight, they're going to want to get down to that weight or lower just to prove that they're better at doing it than this other person was. I know it doesn't make any logical sense to some people, but it is an extremely competitive culture. Activities and behaviors may differ by locale, socioeconomic status and age. So people, and I know this is going to break your heart, people who start dieting or develop eating disorders in elementary and middle school are going to have different compensatory behaviors and probably different behaviors and concepts in general than someone who's in college versus someone who's 40 or 50 years old. And eating disorders cross the spectrum and it's not just women, it's men too. So you want to be kind of cognizant of the variations within the culture. 12 step recovery. So we've talked about the kind of giving you an idea about the alcohol culture, alcoholism as sort of its own little subculture that has arisen out of people who develop a problem with it. We've talked about eating disorders a little and some about depression. So we're seeing how there are certain ways of being with all of our clients. They come to us and they have been living a certain way, whether they've been enjoying it or not, they've been living a certain way for a while and it has shaped their worldview to a certain extent. So now we say, okay, let's try something new. And you would think that they'd be all about it, but it's scary.  And their current culture or way of being is in some ways meeting a need of some sort, probably not meeting their needs well, or they wouldn't be in our office. So let's talk about 12 step recovery real quick. They have a lot of culture, they have a lot of history, centering rituals, reading, recovery literature, including daily meditations, receiving chips, taking regular personal inventories. These are all things that are really important in the 12 step culture and set you up to be able to have a conversation with somebody about, you know, well, how many 30 day chips do you have or, you know, do you have your one year medallion yet yada yada. Acts of personal responsibility, including being honest, becoming time conscious and punctual, creating new rituals of daily living and improving interpersonal skills. As they work the steps, this is kind of where they're going, which is why they're encouraged to work with a sponsor who can help mentor them through the steps. Remembering in 12 steps that the sponsor and the membership is completely lay membership. There's nobody that's trained in there. So, you know, just kind of bearing that in mind. Acts of service, they carry the message of their spiritual awakening or their recovery to others by encouraging them to practice 12 steps. The acts of service usually recognize that people in recovery have something of value to offer people who are still struggling with addictions, and they want you, they say, you know, walk in my footsteps. So what, you know, in 12 step recovery, if somebody's willing to embrace the culture, there are a lot of things that it can offer in terms of recovery, taking care of oneself, being responsible, being honest, letting go and letting God as they say. A lot of that is there. So it can work really well for some people attending meetings telling their story, speaking regularly by phone and using slogans like keep it simple, pass it on it works if you work it. Those are all things that make people who are friends of Bill. Feel very at home and feel very comfortable and feel very supported. Now there is a social hierarchy in 12 step recovery that includes sponsors meeting chairs and old timers who are thought to have more wisdom about recovery than people who have less than a year. It's hard to find meetings in a lot of places, especially lately it seems that have a lot of old timers in them. So that's something to encourage people to look for. If they're going to embrace 12 step recovery is a meeting that fits for them. And there are a lot of different 12 step meetings base that embrace different cultures. There are some that are geared around 12 college age students. There are some that we'll see in a little while that are geared around law enforcement that are geared around in here in Nashville there's one that is centered around musicians and it's you know one of those really super secret groups because you know the high profile musicians don't want to necessarily be outed. It's important to understand that there are subcultures within the 12 steps. So, like I said there are certain types of groups that cater to certain cultures within the 12 steps, but there are also sex, if you will within the 12 steps. Some groups believe that you can't use any mind altering substances all at all, including medication. They're just not, they don't want to hear about it. In some groups, there's no alcohol, obviously because it's AA, but recreational drugs are okay. So, you know some of them are smoking marijuana or smoking nicotine. Now in NA, the tables turned and I've seen groups that say you can't use any illicit drugs but alcohol is fine that's that's legal. We want to encourage people to sort of feel out some of the groups and find a group that fits for them because each individual 12 step group is run with the same overarching principles, but it's going to have its own unique flavor and system value system. And the fourth one would say no alcohol or recreational drugs, but methadone maintenance and medication assisted therapy are okay. If you've got a client on methadone, it's important to help them find a somewhere, some kind of support that's accepting of their medication assisted therapy. All right, so this is one of my favorite clips and I hope it plays for me well. If you can't hear it, let me know from criminal minds that really exemplifies the 12 step structure. And that is a kind of an introduction, if you will, to 12 step culture. He said he, sorry about that. Let's see where to go. There we go. He got his one year medallion but it took him six years to get it in, which basically means he kept getting somewhere up to almost a year, but then he'd relapsed. It took him a long time. But it's also an example of how cultural boundaries that exist in, you know, outside of the 12 steps, kind of disappear inside of the 12 steps there is not a. There's not a hierarchy based on your power at work. If you understand and, and you've worked with clients who've been in the 12 steps. That can be a comforting place to be. Now, not everybody is good with the 12 steps. They may want something that's a little bit more religious based celebrate recovery is another approach, and it works for all of your quote hurts and hang ups, not just addictions but addictions depression anxiety. Christian based so obviously not going to work for some of your clients. The requirement is a belief in, in Jesus, similar ways of dressing socialization and language. A lot of what they talk about is based in scriptural beliefs so there's going to be a lot of script quoting of scripture in order to help people deal with their hurts and hang ups. In celebrate recovery though as opposed to 12 steps you do have trained group facilitators. Like the 12 steps, they both have their own concept of a higher power. And then moving on to dbt. So just to pull in a mental health culture, if you will, and a lot of times you don't think of mental health recoveries having its own culture. But there is a greater emphasis as opposed to mainstream culture which may not emphasize health related behaviors and mindfulness and a lot of those sorts of things. The recovery culture does is we've realized that, you know, the way we were doing it wasn't working so we're going to try focusing on the things that we need to do to maintain recovery and happiness as we define it. dbt is unique, which is why I chose it because it has its own sort of language. If you talk to somebody about emotional dysregulation dialectics, or distress tolerance. They may look at you and be interested, but it doesn't have a whole lot of meaning until it's explained people who've gone through a dbt training program. They understand what each of those mean they understand what vulnerabilities are so you know if I have a client come in and I asked them, you know what have been your three biggest vulnerabilities over the past week. We don't have to go through this long explanation about what I'm talking about.  Another thing that's unique in dbt is when we talk about the three minds the, the emotional mind, the rational mind and the wise mind. It has certain definitions in a lot of different for a lot of different people but for dbt. They are very well defined concepts. So people who've gone through a dbt program have their own sort of language. And it can be if you've gone through a dbt program. Your methods for improving the moment and accepting or accepts referring to ways to radically accept something that's going on without having to act on it, maybe different in New York City than it is in Hawaii, or then it is in rural Nashville. There are different techniques that people use, but the language is the same so you can talk about it from that perspective. When you talk about people who are vegetarian or vegan, again that's a culture. So they are talking about certain things they're embracing a certain lifestyle that may not mesh 100% with mainstream lifestyle, you know, eating fast food and lots of gluten and all that kind of stuff. So we're not necessarily talking about something super big here but we're talking about an aspect of a person's life that is extremely meaningful to them that may not meet mesh 100% with mainstream culture and they've got to figure out how to weave that together to find some balance and feel and reduce any sort of internal conflict. When people with addictions or eating disorders are marginalized, they tend not to seek access to mainstream institutions. So if they go to treatment and they want help and the first thing they're told is you've got to start going to 12 step meetings, but that's not a good fit for them. They may not go back. Or if they are told, you know, when people go in for eating disorder treatment, some well-meaning clinicians may start out with telling them, well, let's talk about what you can, how many calories you have to eat each day and how much weight you've got to put on. A person with an eating disorder is going to run out of that office so fast usually if that's where it starts. So being sensitive to the culture and understanding what's important to them and not ripping that away from them the moment they walk in your door. When they feel misunderstood by mainstream institutions, they may bond even more strongly with the harmful original culture. They may be like, okay, you don't understand me. They get me over here. I'm just going to stay here and try to figure out my own sort of way. A marginalized person's behavior is seen as abnormal, even if he or she attempts to act differently, thus further reducing the chances of any attempt to change behavior. Alcoholism, if they're trying to drink socially, they're often going to be judged not only by the people who don't have addictions going, well, John's at it again, but also by the people who may be in full recovery and not embracing harm reduction. John's at it again. So this person feels like they're in a lose-lose sort of situation. So we want to understand that as they're trying to segue culture, there may be a sense in them that they're being kind of judged by both of them. They're leaving one culture and they're not accepted yet by the other one. The original or harmful culture, whatever you want to call it, enables its members to view their issues as normal or even as status symbols. Now with depression, that's not such the case with alcoholism. You know, people will brag about how much they can drink before they pass out or how many blackouts they've survived. So there can be some status and competition in it, and it may be seen as a badge, if you will, that provides them acceptance. People may celebrate their original or harmful culture related identity with other members of the culture. So celebrating, you know, seeing how much they can drink and whoever drinks the most and stays standing as the winner or whatever. There is a social stigma that also aids in the formation of oppositional values and beliefs that can promote unity among members of the original or harmful culture, if you will. So if they feel like the world is judging them because they drink alcohol or they smoke marijuana or they use opiates or, you know, their, their bulimics or they binge and purge, then it may encourage them to further reject mainstream society and bond with their culture of origin. One of the things that was highlighted in the text was the illicit drug culture. So I'm going to go through that real quick. Now this obviously we're talking about your street drugs antisocial viewpoint members of this culture share a viewpoint that sees all people as basically dishonest and egocentric rejection of middle class values denigrating values such as the need for hard work security and honesty. And I would encourage you to look at it in terms of somebody who's been in this addicted culture for a long time. And ask what are they getting out of this out of this viewpoint how is this how does this viewpoint makes sense to them. Because there's going to be if they want to move into recovery, we're going to have to kind of switch on some of this stuff and help them not distrust everybody and help them see the need and benefit of hard work security and honesty. But up until this point, a lot of times, it has probably seemed for a lot of them. Like the world is kind of bent against them. Excitement and hedonism members value immediate gratification and the intense pursuit of pleasure over more stable and lasting values. Well, if they're using illicit drugs, their neurochemicals are all out of whack. So maybe the only time they feel any sort of happiness is through this. Hypothesizing here. Importance of outward appearances. They strongly believe in conspicuous consumption and the importance of owning things that give an image of prosperity. Just sort of thumb their nose at mainstream society and say, you know, I can do all this over here and have all this. So why should I want to be one of you. The valence of street addict subcultures value the continued participation of others in the culture, even to the point of expecting individuals who have stopped using to continue to participate. I encourage my clients when they're in recovery to block phone numbers of their dealers, because their dealers will encourage them to get back into the lifestyle and emotional detachment. People involved in this drug culture value emotional aloofness and see emotional involvement with others as weakness. So again as a clinician, I go well, where would that come from. How would that be beneficial to this person because they're choosing this. How hurt, what happened that caused them so much hurt that they don't even want to connect with anyone else. That's how I approach it, but it helps me kind of try to understand this person's view and understand how dark it may be in their head. Recovery has its own culture characterized by honesty mindfulness and a variety of different tools unique to each recovery method 12 step celebrate recovery dbt to name three of many. There are many struggles clients experience when becoming acculturated to the recovery culture, especially if they have to change people places and things. Like I said when I have somebody in in treatment and I tell them you know what, I think you need to block your dealer.  You know that could be really hard if that dealer was maybe one of their boyfriends or girlfriends, or was somebody who seemed to be there for them when their entire other family had abandoned them. I mean, there's a lot of significance to people from the unhelpful or unhealthy culture. So we want to be sensitive to that before we tell them why you need to just leave them in the dust because that's probably not going to happen right away. People may feel conflicted about their identities wanting to fit in with this new mainstream recovery culture while also wanting to retain some of the values or safety nets or important points of their culture of origin. Likewise, they may want to fit in with the recovery culture without losing the rituals friends and security of the culture of addiction. The original culture enables its members to view their addiction or mental health issues as normal or even status symbols with people who have eating disorders. They may group together and they may believe that what they're doing, they can minimize how harmful it can be and see it more as normative than others. Same thing with alcohol, you know, they can minimize, justify, rationalize and deny better than anybody. Intervention and methods which can help clients embrace the recovery culture are those in which the recovery culture meets the same needs as the original or harmful culture. So acceptance, a sense of positive self worth, a sense of achievement, all those things that most of us want. We need to look and say what was this, what is hanging out in this culture or what does this culture provide to you that we need to make sure you're getting met so you don't want to go back to that. And a lot of times, I would say 99% of the time, it is about way more than just the drugs. A lot of people think that the people who they used to use with are their friends or the people they used to, you know, if they were depressed and they would go to the bar and they would have a few drinks. The people that would commiserate with them were their friends. And it could be true. You know, who am I to say, it depends on every situation is different, but it's also important to help them recognize what was it you were getting out of that and how can we do that in a more healthy way now. If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe either in your podcast player or on YouTube. 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Okay, today I'll talk about multi-party computation, mainly, and on some automomorphic encryption later. Okay, so what we do is MPC protocol, secure against an active adversary, corrupting a dishonest majority, and of course the security is computational, and we choose to have this UC framework. And as you see, there are some other examples of this kind of work, early construction by Canadian friends, the MPC in the head approach, and well, the August team has this prepossessing model also. And okay, this funny reference, well, you'll see it in 40 minutes, and but today we'll mainly focus on this one, and on our work. Okay, so notation. So since our work is, compares very well with this Bedoza paper, I will say Bedoza when I mean Bendlin, Damgo, Orlandi, Zacarias, Eurocube 2011. And I'll say speeds for today, today's topic, and you can figure out what it means. Okay, so we both reached this MPC protocol in the prepossessing model, meaning that the MPC takes place into two phases, prepossessing phase where players engage in a protocol where they will get some shared randomness at the end. And later on they will engage in an online phase where they will compute the actual function to be computed. Fun fact, the prepossessing is independent of the function, so you can do it months in advance without knowing what you're going to compute later, basically. And another fun fact is that the online phase is extremely fast because you don't need public key encryption. That's very nice. So of course, two phases, let's talk about the online phase first and then on the prepossessing. So in order to understand our online phase, I'll have to make a digression on Bedosa's online phase first. So computation in the Bedosa paper is taken in, yeah, it's still dealt to in a secret share, secret sharing of values, of secret values. And by secret sharing, I mean additive secret sharing, and the IS share is given to PI. Security, on the other hand, is given by max on shares. So for every secret you have n shares, for every share you have n max. And player i will not only hold the value xi, but also the jth mech on the share xi for every other player PJ. On the other hand, PJ will hold the key for that mech. So throughout this talk, I'll denote by bracket x this situation, meaning share i is given to PI and the max and the keys are given accordingly. Good. So we want to compute any algebraic function. So if you have an algebraic function, you can decompose it in sums and multiplications. So let's see how to compute sums first. So that's easy. Since the secret sharing is additive and the max are linear, you can do everything locally, meaning that to compute the sum of bracket x plus bracket y, players will just add their shares locally, their max locally, and the keys locally. What about multiplication? That's slightly more advanced. So we use the beaver trick. If you are given some multiplicative triples, meaning a bracket representation of a random value a, b, and their products, then you can mask x and y via a and b using the addition protocol.  And you do the math, z is equal to x times y. So in the below paper, notice this. There is a MAC checking every time there is a reconstruction and this is something different than what we do. Okay, so computation in their case, well, let's see the philosophy of the protocol. So linear secret sharing schemes and MACs will allow you to compute additions, multiplicative triples will also allow you to compute products. For the security part, the secret sharing will give you privacy and the MACs will give you authenticity. And the complexity of this online phase is the following. For every secret you have n shares and for every share you have n MACs and keys. So you need a square amount of field elements for every secret. Can we do it better? Well, yes, we can do it. So notice that in the bedosa they use MACs on the shares in order to authenticate the secrets. So what we were thinking was, well, we could do something else maybe. And yeah, we sat down for a while and we decided to use the MACs on the secrets in order to authenticate the secrets. So we define another representation for values. So we assume we have a bracket notation for alpha, one single values for all secrets. And we define this angle notation for the secrets, meaning additive secret sharing of the value and additive secret sharing of a MAC on that value. And the data needed per secret is then linear because you need n shares plus n shares of the MAC, which is good, but does it really work? Well, not in a straightforward way because notice that in the bedosa, the keys for the MACs were privately held. Well, now we have one big master key for all secrets. So as soon as we reconstruct, we can have problems, meaning that at every multiplication in the bedosa they reconstructed, they needed the key for the MACs while yeah, if you reveal alpha in our case, you can forge every MAC, which is not really that secure, so you can take this online phase as they have. So, well, the solution we came up with was the following. We compute everything insecurely until the opening phase. We let players commit to their MACs, open the master key, and then check the MACs. And since the opening is after the commitment of the MACs, adversaries cannot really cheat. So this is the solution, and let's see how it performs. So, as I said, you have an improvement on the preprocessed data needed, and we also have an improvement on the complexity of the protocol, meaning this is really what matters instead of this. And practically, we also have a very nice improvement. Basically, two orders of magnitude. And we also have a theorem stating that our online phase is essentially optimal in your favorite measure. Okay, let's move to the preprocessing. So, yeah, so what is the target of the preprocessing? It is to generate these multiplicative triples. So the high-level idea is we want to generate random value A and B, secret share them, encrypt the shares, and from those encryptions, compute an encryption of the product of the random values. And after that, we want to distribute shares of the product. So there are some problems. So the first problem, this one, is that an adversary could perhaps not distribute ciphertext where he knows the plaintexts. And the second problem is, well, how can you compute an encryption of this product given shares of the summands? And so in the Bedouza, they were using zero-knowledge proofs for both problems while we were thinking that maybe for the second problem, so computing C, we can have a better trick. And we were thinking, well, why don't we basically embed this property in the encryption scheme? So the problem is the following. We have fresh encryption of shares, and we want to compute an encryption of the sum of the shares, and an encryption of basically a product of sums. So this is what we want. We want to have a very nice encryption scheme where computing the sum is, okay, an encryption of the sum is the same as summing encryption, and computing a product of encryption is the same as multiplying encryptions. So this might look like fully homomorphic encryption, but it's not because we just need one multiplication on fresh data. So what we came out was the following. An encryption scheme which is sum-automomorphic, meaning you can compute unencrypted data, but the computation is restricted to a certain set of functions. Basically, circuits of multiplicative depth one, or polynomials of degree two if you prefer. And okay, so what we did was the following. We took a very nice encryption scheme by Brokesky by Kutanathan, which is based on Ringelwe, and we tweaked it a bit. So we wanted to have precisely the property I just said. So computation on encrypted data, meaning just circuits of multiplicative depth one, and we also needed a distributed encryption, and since we were playing with it, we decided also to make it SIMD friendly, meaning that it handles more plain text per ciphertext. And yeah, so how does this perform? Well, this performs very well too. We have one minor problem, because we lose a bit of generality in the encryption. So in the bedosa, they allow semi-homomorphic encryption, which is a different concept that's than sum-automomorphic encryption. It's more broader than our. On the other hand, we get rid of their most expensive zero-knowledge protocol. It's really zero, the cost, because it's not existent in our case. And the offline benchmark is pretty cool. We have a speed-off of what? Three orders of magnitude, something like that. Yeah, so to summarize, our speeds protocol is an MPC protocol secured against active adversaries corrupting a dishonest majority, and we decided to build it in this pre-processing model. Our online phase is linear in the amount of data needed. It's essentially linear also in the communication complexity, and these two properties are essentially optimal for these kind of protocols in the pre-processing model. And our pre-processing is also very nice, meaning that we make a rational use of semi-homomorphic encryption. We need fewer zero-knowledge protocols if we compare to the bedosa. And as you saw, it's very practical. Let me just go back. So this value is, I think, very nice compared to this. So, okay, if you're curious, you just go into this website and you can read the e-print version of it. And so that's all I wanted to say. Thanks. Thank you.


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