National Counselor CE Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Code of Ethics for Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists 6
Course Release: 01/08/2024
About the course
This course will fulfill the requirements for continuing education/certification for counselors on the topic of ethical practice. It aligns with the standards and Code of Ethics of the NBCC, ACA, and AAMFT.
The course will include best practice strategies to address common areas of ethical concerns in counseling including currents topics such as the use of long-distance counseling through technology.
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Behavioral Addictions 6
Course release date: 5/1/2024
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to provide clinicians with the knowledge and skills to appropriately identify, diagnose, and treat behavioral addictions. -
Clinician's Guide to DSM-5-TR 3
Course release date: 1/6/2025
Course Overview
With the development of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-V-TR; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2022), professionals who work with people who have mental health diagnoses will be responsible for learning and understanding the changes that have taken place in the new diagnostic manual. The transition from using the previous edition of DSM-V (APA, 2013) to the new DSM-V-TR (APA, 2022) presents a challenge for any clinician. Given the extent of the changes that have occurred for DSM-V, reading through DSM-V-TR and piecing together these changes should be quick but done thoroughly.
This course provides clinicians with the most up-to-date information on DSM-V-TR, relative to the previous edition, DSM-V, including diagnostic criteria needed to assess the presence of various disorders. This course will not only present newly classified disorders and identify those that have been removed or reclassified but will also illuminate any changes to diagnostic criteria for disorders in the previous manual and continue to be defined as disorders in DSM-V-TR. The course will cover the development process used by the DSM-V-TR task force in deciding the diagnostic system's new structure and removing the multiaxial system. Alternative diagnostic systems proposed in place of DSM-V-TR will also be described.
This basic-level course is designed for social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, occupational therapists, nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, and other ancillary behavioral health staff. Summary tables are provided to assist with understanding the significant changes that have taken place. Without a strong understanding of these changes, clinicians may be more prone to makin