Pennsylvania Counseling CE Requirement 20-Hour Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting in Pennsylvania, 2nd edition (Renewal Licensure) 2
Course release date: 4/9/2024
About the course
Child abuse and neglect remains a significant problem for us all in the U.S. as well as in Pennsylvania. Approximately 3.5 million children in the U.S. were the subjects of at least one child abuse or neglect report (United States Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2019). In Pennsylvania alone, there were 46,208 reports of suspected child and student abuse in 2017 (HHS, 2019). This course provides the details of the identification, assessment, and reporting of child abuse and reviews Pennsylvania state laws regarding child abuse and neglect.
- Ethics in Behavioral Health Documentation: Reasons, Risks, and Rewards 3Release Date: 7/10/23About the courseThis basic-level course will help practitioners approach documentation in a way that is guided not solely by what is mandated, but by what is mutually beneficial to all stakeholders in the documentation process: The practitioner, the agency, the funding source, and - most of all - the clients.
- Integrative and Comprehensive Trauma Treatment, 3rd Edition 9
Release Date: 7/10/2023
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. - Managing Professional Boundaries 3
Course release date: 10/9/2023
About the Course
This course is intended for healthcare professionals who provide care to clients/patients. The course discusses professional standards and principles for providing safe ethical care, how those standards are reflected in clinical boundaries, common boundary dilemmas faced by clinicians, and how to apply a decision-making model to navigate boundary situations. The course also meets the New York requirement for 3 CEU’s on professional boundaries required for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
- Overdose: Pain Pills, Heroin, Fentanyl and Beyond, 2nd Edition 2
Course release date: 10/7/2024
About the Course
The opioid epidemic is a major public health crisis affecting Americans at alarming rates. In 2020, an estimated 2.7 million people aged 12 or older in the United States had an opioid use disorder (OUD) within the past 12 months, including 2.3 million people with a prescription OUD (National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA], 2021). The number of drug overdose deaths has continued to rise, with over 107,000 deaths reported in 2021 (NIDA, 2024). This course will focus on opioid addiction and overdose, with close attention paid to the trends of both prescription and street drug abuse. In this course, the healthcare professional will learn about the pharmacology of opioids, risk factors for opioid addiction, and individual and community consequences of addiction. Additionally, the provider will become familiar with the levels of prevention theory and how to effectively prevent, screen, treat, and reduce harm from opioid addiction.
- Suicide Risk: Assessment and Prevention 1Course Release: January 15th, 2023
This course provides an overview of the suicide assessment, treatment, and management of suicide risk training for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and other healthcare providers. Included are a variety of best practice and evidence-based intervention strategies as well as current and recommended language regarding patient-centric suicide terminology.