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- A convenient learning hub with 24/7 access to all your required CE
- Over 30 accredited courses (98 contact hours) at your fingertips
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Counselor CE Courses
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A Clinician's Guide to DSM-5, 2nd Edition
A Clinician's Guide to DSM-5, 2nd Edition
Release Date: October 11, 2018
About the Course:
This intermediate-level course provides clinicians with the most essential information about the manual in a single, easy-to-use source. The course describes the history of the DSM and the development process used in creating the diagnostic system’s new structure. Newly added and classified disorders, removed or reclassified disorders, and any modified diagnostic criteria for those disorders retained in DSM-5 are detailed. The course addresses the controversies and criticisms that arose with the publication of DSM-5. Clinical vignettes highlight diagnosis criteria and quick reference lists and charts included in the course are an indispensable resource for those clinicians ready to use DSM-5.
Best Practices with Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Youth and Their Families, Updated 1st Edition
Best Practices with Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Youth and Their Families, Updated 1st Edition
Release Date: March 26,2019
About the Course:
The purpose of this basic-level course is to provide human services and mental and behavioral health professionals with definitional information, historical and sociopolitical frameworks impacting the lives of LGB youth, as well as the influences of community and family contexts.
Body Image and Dissatisfaction: Theories and Cultural Considerations
Body Image and Dissatisfaction: Theories and Cultural Considerations
Release Date: November 26, 2018
About the Course
The past two decades have seen a marked increase of interest in body image. This intermediate-level course provides an overview of the complexities of body image and body dissatisfaction for a broad range of populations. This course reviews theoretical foundations of how cultural beauty ideals are transmitted. Through case examples and a review of research, it addresses the internalization of beauty messages in the media, the difference between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders, the relationship between a negative body image and mental health, and the potential progression from negative body image into a clinical eating disorder.
Clinical Psychopharmacology: A Primer
Clinical Psychopharmacology: A Primer
Release Date: February 22, 2019
About the Course
It is essential that clinicians are prepared to discuss psychotropic medications with their clients. Many clinicians have not received appropriate training in this area and problems may arise when a clinician fails to refer a client for a medication evaluation or to address concerns clients may have such as worries about side effects. Clinicians with knowledge of psychotropic medications are a great asset to clients. This intermediate-level course provides information pertaining to psychotropic medications, tools to address client concerns and attitudes toward psychotropic medications, and clinical guidance to support client efforts to effectively discuss psychotropic medications with their prescribers.
Cognitive Therapy: Theory, Techniques, and Applications, 2nd Edition
Cognitive Therapy: Theory, Techniques, and Applications, 2nd Edition
Release Date: December 19, 2019
About the Course:
This intermediate-level course provides an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of Cognitive Therapy and a brief history of its evolution prior to describing specific cognitive techniques that are used both within Cognitive Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This course for social workers, and psychologists reviews a foundational understanding of cognitive theory and techniques that can be used either within manualized Cognitive Therapies or to bolster therapeutic skills within other treatment frameworks.
Cultural Humility in Behavioral Health
Cultural Humility in Behavioral Health
The purpose of this education program is to present an introduction to cultural humility and offers tools for psychologists and other behavioral healthcare professionals to use when working with patients from diverse backgrounds in a culturally humble manner.
Disaster Mental Health, 2nd Edition
Disaster Mental Health, 2nd Edition
Release Date: April 26, 2018
About the Course:
Disaster mental health (DMH) interventions in the United States have become recognized as a crucial aspect of disaster response. This basic-level course provides social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists – who are at the forefront of providing assistance to survivors and the communities in which they live – with information about challenges in DMH and tools needed to respond. Risk and protective factors for a number of populations, as well as the wide array of disaster mental health services are described.
Drug Abuse Crisis in America for Health Professionals
Drug Abuse Crisis in America for Health Professionals
About the Course
Despite individual and federal efforts to curb drug abuse, healthcare professionals care for patients who have drug problems every day. This course will offer information that may help the provider to understand the drug crisis in America, as well as providing strategies to help healthcare professionals deal with individuals struggling with addiction.
Ethics in Behavioral Health Documentation: Reasons, Risks, and Rewards
Ethics in Behavioral Health Documentation: Reasons, Risks, and Rewards
Release Date: March 28,2019
About the Course:
This intermediate – level course will help novice and seasoned practitioners approach documentation in a way that is guided not solely by what is mandated, but by what is mutually beneficial to the practitioner, the agency, the funding source, and most of all, the clients.
Facing Infertility in the 21st Century
Facing Infertility in the 21st Century
Release Date: December 3, 2018
About the Course:
Infertility is a medical problem with social, emotional, financial, religious, and other personal challenges that affect individuals, couples, and family systems. To combat a Woman’s inability to get pregnant, many people turn to counseling and the medical field for assistance and reproductive advice. This intermediate-level course provides an overview of infertility, the nature and scope of physical causes of infertility, as well as the emotional, social, financial, religious/spiritual, and career challenges faced by individuals and couples experiencing infertility. Treatment modalities are described, concerns for specific populations who experience infertility are discussed throughout using case studies and vignettes.
Integrative and Comprehensive Trauma Treatment, 2nd Edition
Integrative and Comprehensive Trauma Treatment, 2nd Edition
Release Date: April 25,2018
About the Course:
This intermediate-level course summarizes the theories on understanding trauma from psychological, developmental, and neurobiological perspectives; discusses various forms of trauma treatment; introduces the reader to integrative approaches to healing that reflect a holistic perspective; and explains practitioner self-care and the prevention of secondary or vicarious traumatization. Case vignettes throughout highlight key learning concepts.
Intimate Partner Violence: Recognition and Intervention, 2nd Edition
Intimate Partner Violence: Recognition and Intervention, 2nd Edition
Release Date: November 20, 2018
About the Course:
This intermediate-level course presents an overview of intimate partner violence (IPV). Types of IPV, risk factors, and health consequences for victims are described, as well as IPV’s effects at various life stages from children to older adults. Screening and assessment strategies are reviewed. Transcultural considerations are addressed, along with working with perpetrators and special populations, such as immigrants, pregnant women, and the LGBTQI community. On a very practical level, the course discusses legal issues, reporting requirements, and necessary documentation when working with victims of IPV. Case vignettes and safety planning worksheets are provided to illustrate key concepts.
Keeping Clients Safe: Error and Safety in Behavioral Health Settings, 2nd Edition
Keeping Clients Safe: Error and Safety in Behavioral Health Settings, 2nd Edition
Release Date: 10/17/2019
About the Course:
The vast majority of behavioral health professionals receive no instruction in client safety, and this knowledge gap compromises the ability of mental health professionals to protect their clients from harm and from being active participants in creating cultures of safety in behavioral health settings. Many behavioral health professionals may not even be aware of The Joint Commission’s reporting program for sentinel events (unanticipated events that result in death or serious physical or psychological injury unrelated to the person’s illness). This basic-level course focuses on client safety problems and solutions in behavioral health settings.
LGBTQQI: Understanding the Acronyms
LGBTQQI: Understanding the Acronyms
About the Course
When working with gender and sexual diversity, clinicians may be confronted by an abundance of terminology with which they are unfamiliar. Terms such as gender nonconforming, non-binary, and cisgender may not have been in use when they were earning their degrees but are in increasing use in the professional literature and in the LGBTQQI world. Because there is now a wide array of terminology, this intermediate level course provides vital information for professionals to educate themselves in order to provide appropriate care for their clients and to ensure that they not do or say anything that can be seen as discriminatory.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment, 2nd Edition
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment, 2nd Edition
Release Date: September 26,2018
About the Course:
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is the fourth most common psychiatric disorder, so clinicians are likely to encounter it in clients seeking mental health treatment. Treatments for OCD take hard work, courage, and trust. Clients can learn strategies for managing their intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and minimize the effect of symptoms on their relationships with others and in their daily lives. This intermediate-level course provides information about differential diagnosis and reviews appropriate tools clinicians can use to identify and treat clients with this complicated disorder and help them achieve a stable recovery.
Pain Assessment and Management
Pain Assessment and Management
About the Course:
The purpose of this basic-level course is to elaborate on the definition of pain and its perception, factors hampering pain management, assessment of a client for pain, and interventions to improve function in clients with pain. The goal is to provide evidence-based practices that the health professional can use when working with clients who have pain.
Postcombat-Related Disorders: Counseling Veterans and Military Personnel, 2nd Edition
Postcombat-Related Disorders: Counseling Veterans and Military Personnel, 2nd Edition
Release Date: October 8,2018
About the Course:
With increasing frequency, military personnel and veterans experience mental health problems upon return from deployment. This intermediate-level course sensitizes mental health providers to military cultural norms. The course describes postdeployment transition, reintegration, and adjustment, and identifies common mistakes that clinicians make in treating this population. Military families are discussed, including marital satisfaction and the effects of military life on the spouse and children. Assessment and treatment methods for PTSD, depression, suicide risk, substance use disorders, and traumatic brain injury are all described. The various treatment methods are explained in detail, and include case vignettes to illustrate client and therapist interactions.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Overview, 2nd Edition
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Overview, 2nd Edition
Release Date: May 1,2018
About the Course:
With increasing frequency, military personnel and veterans experience mental health problems upon return from deployment. This intermediate-level course sensitizes mental health providers to military cultural norms. The course describes postdeployment transition, reintegration, and adjustment, and identifies common mistakes that clinicians make in treating this population. Military families are discussed, including marital satisfaction and the effects of military life on the spouse and children. Assessment and treatment methods for PTSD, depression, suicide risk, substance use disorders, and traumatic brain injury are all described. The various treatment methods are explained in detail, and include case vignettes to illustrate client and therapist interactions.
Promoting Mental Health in Schools
Promoting Mental Health in Schools
Release Date: February 23, 2019
About the Course:
This intermediate-level course provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of issues related to behavioral and mental health in schools and presents strategies for prevention, intervention, assessment, and referrals. Emphasizing practical application, assessment, and treatment interventions, this course summarizes multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and common mental health concerns in school settings, including behavioral, anxiety and depressive-related disorders, substance abuse, child abuse, trauma, and crisis intervention. These topics are explored in relation to multicultural, social justice, and developmental considerations. Family involvement and collaboration with outside service providers and systems is also addressed.
Self Injury in Adults and Adolescents, 2nd Edition
Self Injury in Adults and Adolescents, 2nd Edition
Release Date: February 2, 2019
About the Course:
This intermediate-level course provides clinicians with the most up-to-date information on self-injury so they are better able to assess for the presence of the behavior and provide the best possible treatment. The course describes the various presentations of self-injury, presents a history of the diagnosis, and details developmental considerations, risk factors, and possible biopsychosocial functions of self-injury. Attention is paid to assessing, diagnosing, and treating self-injury in a variety of settings, including mental health and school settings.
Substance Use in Different Populations and Contexts
Substance Use in Different Populations and Contexts
Release Date: May 1, 2018
About the Course:
Alcohol and drug abuse is a major public health concern, affecting every segment of society. It needs to be considered within the context of problematic use of a variety of chemical substances. This intermediate-level course discusses the scope of substance-related problems in the US and the unique needs of various populations affected by substance use disorders including the effects of gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, co-occurring disorders, disabilities, and chronic pain conditions. The course also discusses substance use among military veterans, and incarcerated and homeless populations.
Telemental Health: An Alternative to Traditional Psychotherapy
Telemental Health: An Alternative to Traditional Psychotherapy
Release Date: October 6, 2018
About the Course:
Telemental health (TMH) is a broad term that refers to the provision of behavioral and mental health services using telecommunications or videoconferencing technology. Because technological advances in TMH are developing so rapidly, many practitioners may not have learned about how these advances can be integrated into clinical practice. Research has shown no evidence that TMH delivery of evidence-based mental health treatment is less effective than in-person delivery, even in the treatment of complex disorders like PTSD. This intermediate-level course provides a framework for understanding issues relating to TMH and offers introductory information for developing TMH clinical practices. Case vignettes are included.
The Essentials of Play Therapy, 1st Edition
The Essentials of Play Therapy, 1st Edition
Release Date: July 23,2018
About the Course:
The Child Mind Institute (2015) reports that nearly 50% of children in the United States meet criteria for a mental health disorder, yet only 7.4% will receive mental health treatment – which could be due, in part, to a lack of training, knowledge, and experience in therapists on how to work with young children. Nonetheless, children suffering the effects of trauma, anxiety, and depression show up regularly in clinical spaces throughout this country. This basic-level course describes the therapeutic and developmental value of play and the two predominant models of treatment: child-centered play therapy and cognitive behavioral play therapy.
Understanding Implicit Bias in Healthcare
Understanding Implicit Bias in Healthcare
This course provides a historical context of race and racism and its relationship to the development of racial implicit bias. Research indicates that implicit bias in healthcare contributes to healthcare inequities. By increasing awareness of the many facets of implicit bias, discussing scenarios specific to healthcare that direct relate to patient care, and facilitating thought processes and discussions around the issue, individual healthcare providers can improve the spectrum of care.
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