New Jersey 20-Hour Social Worker Package - SWNJ2024
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Adolescent Substance Use Disorders for Healthcare Professionals, 2nd edition 1
Course Release: 10/09/2023
About the course
Description of current state: The key risk periods for substance use disorders (SUD) occur during life transitions, such as adolescence. This means that substance use assessment and intervention is especially critical for the adolescent population. The emphasis for this basic-level course is on helping healthcare professionals to effectively assess adolescents for substance use disorders and intervene effectively with adolescents who are dealing with such disorders.
- Clinical Neuropsychology: Applications in Practice, 3rd edition 2Course release: 10/01/2022
This intermediate course will provide information about the origins of the field of clinical neuropsychology, how clinical neuropsychologists are trained, the functional organization of the brain, what happens during a typical neuropsychological evaluation, multicultural considerations, how and when to make a referral to a neuropsychologist, how to read a neuropsychological report, and detailed examples of common referral questions to neuropsychologists for child, adult, and geriatric patients. - Cultural Humility in Behavioral Health 3Release Date: January 15, 2023
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.
- Hospice and Palliative Care 3
Course release: 7/10/2023
About the CourseThis course provides an overview of hospice and palliative care and describes care that meets the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of suffering patients and families. Palliative care is the overarching supportive approach that helps seriously ill patients and families address problems and improve their quality of life (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research [MFMER], 2021). Hospice is a type of palliative care specifically for those that have a terminal disease and life-limiting prognosis. The course will review theoretical models of the dying process, the psychological and physical symptoms as death approaches, misconceptions and barriers to providing end-of-life care.
- In-Patient Management of Anxiety and Depression 1Course release date: 9/15/22
This intermediate course helps to prepare healthcare professionals to differentiate the various mood disorders patients are exhibiting and their causes, identify risk factors for these disorders, recommend treatment options, provide a calm and supportive environment for patients, explore holistic considerations, and use evidence-based complementary therapies to assist patients.
- Keeping Clients Safe: Error and Safety in Behavioral Health Settings 3Course Release date: 7/10/2023
This course focuses on five major components of the problem of medical error for behavioral health professionals. The first section describes the severity of the problem of medical error in the U.S. and outlines the evolution of the patient safety movement. The second section introduces concepts from human factors research that are essential to understanding the complexity of patient safety, and also outlines the importance of a culture of safety. The third section presents three basic strategies to reduce harm: Safety briefings, root cause analysis, and full disclosure. A fourth section addresses three error-prone situations that are common in behavioral health settings: Inadequate assessment of suicide risk, failure to comply with mandatory reporting laws, and failure to detect medical conditions that have psychological symptoms. The final section describes the psychosocial needs of survivors of medical error and their families. This course is intended for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and advanced practice and psychiatric nurses. - Management of Post-Traumatic and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Professionals 1
Course Release: 11/1/2023
About the course
Job burnout, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and secondary traumatic stress (STS) are consequences of extreme job demands in the healthcare profession. Such demands may include frequent and intense contact with traumatized clients and chronic exposure to traumatic content at work. PTSD has long-term physical and psychological complications that can affect health and lifelong functioning.
- Pain Management and Opioid Use for New Jersey Healthcare Professionals, 2nd Edition 1
Course Release: 2/19/2024
About the course
Healthcare Professionals have a responsibility to understand the appropriate use of opioid medications, to include the risks inherent to this category of therapeutic products. Further, to fulfill requirements for biennial license renewal, all New Jersey registered professional and social workers must complete a one-contact-hour continuing education program focused on the use of prescription opioid drugs and potential alternative medications useful for the treatment and management of pain. This course addresses the risks and signs of opioid misuse, addiction, and diversion. It is critical that all healthcare professionals have an understanding of pain management and the potential risks and benefits of using opioid pain medication for its treatment. This course is intended to provide healthcare professionals engaged in practice settings that prescribe opioids with an accredited continuing education course designed to satisfy specific state of New Jersey continuing education requirements and provide an overview of the clinical use of opioids.
- Professional Ethics & Law, New Jersey 5
Course release date: 1/09/2024
About the Course
This course is intended to provide details on professional ethics, professional values, and New Jersey law for behavioral and mental health professionals. It emphasizes the importance of professional values and ethics and identifies the role and impact of laws for these professions, so that practitioners can prevent unethical or unlawful behaviors in their practice and provide exceptional patient care.