Texas Social Work - 30 Hour CE Package
Save on individual course prices with this convenient package of courses to fulfill your Texas Social Work CE requirements including your mandatory subjects.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Cultural Humility for Behavioral Health Professionals 6
Course Release Date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
The purpose of this education program is to present an introduction to cultural humility and offers tools for psychologists and mental healthcare professionals to use when working with diverse patients in a culturally humble manner. - 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.
- LGBTQ for Healthcare Professionals: Improving Access to Care 1Release date: 8/15/2022
The purpose of this course is to help improve care and health outcomes of the LGBTQ population by recognizing the existing disparities and increased health risks present in this population. We will examine system and provider/client barriers to equality in healthcare. - Professional Ethics and Law 4Course Release Date: 5/11/2022
About the Course
In practicing a profession, three interrelated but distinct areas come into play: professional values, ethics, and the law. Although all three areas are related to one another, sometimes they can conflict with one another. Sometimes, also, values can conflict with other values, as can ethics. When ethics conflict, an ethical dilemma results.
When professional values conflict with professional ethics, the organized and generally agreed-upon framework of an ethical code is vital. When ethics and the law collide, it may be necessary to consult the relevant professional organization. The American Medical Association, for example, has become involved when the law required that a physician be present at an execution. The AMA code of ethics explicitly forbids physicians from participating in capital punishment (Henry, 2018).
This intermediate course is intended to provide healthcare professionals such as social workers with an overview of how professional values, ethics, and the law come into play in mental health practice.
- 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.
- Telemental Health: An Alternative to Traditional Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition 3
Course Release: 2/13/2024
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 information for developing TMH clinical practices.
- Advocacy for Elder Abuse: Facts, Myths, and Interventions 2
Course release date: 10/7/2024
About the Course
This course provides healthcare professionals with a comprehensive understanding of elder abuse, including the types, prevalence, myths, and historical context. Learners will understand practical strategies for identifying and reporting abuse, and the multidisciplinary roles that advocate in cases of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Ethical Practices with Older Adults, 2nd edition 3
Course Release: 1/9/2024
About the course
Many issues behavioral health practitioners face in working with an increasing aging population are related to advances in medical technologies that have occurred over the past several decades (and that continue to be developed) and have led to increasingly complex choices. The course will provide background on ethical frameworks and principles used in healthcare settings for guidance in resolving ethical problems. This course will also identify major ethical issues concerning older adults and healthcare decisions and provide a model for addressing ethical dilemmas in healthcare settings.
This basic-level course is written for healthcare professionals, including social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, respiratory therapists, and occupational and physical therapy practitioners. Other healthcare professionals who work with older adults and on interdisciplinary teams will also find the information presented useful to their practice.
- Intimate Partner Violence: Recognition and Intervention, 3rd Edition 4
Course Release: 2/15/2024
About the course
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a critical public health concern that encompasses all forms of abuse or aggression occurring in the context of a current or former romantic relationship. IPV can include physical and/or sexual violence, stalking, and psychological types of aggression such as coercion, threats, and social isolation (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention, 2022). Sexual violence or sexual assault (SA) in particular, defined as any sexual contact perpetrated without the explicit consent of the recipient, is often perpetrated by someone known to the victim—in a national survey, nearly 20% of women who reported experiencing IPV indicated that this included SA (Smith et al., 2018).
The purpose of this intermediate, continuing education course is to provide healthcare professionals across all professions with definitions of and guidelines for the identification of IPV, as well as foundational content on responding to disclosure of IPV in various settings. Participants will be able to assess, document, and intervene with clients or patients experiencing IPV in a trauma-informed manner. Further, learners will become acquainted with appropriate referral options and strategies for ensuring safe, effective, and nonjudgmental care of persons affected by IPV. Course materials include a list of general referral and specialized resources as well as information on reporting policies and procedures to assist providers in caring for this population.
- 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.