Fulfilling your state’s requirements for continuing education credits can be an extremely daunting task for any health professional, especially counselors and psychologists. Sorting through pages and pages of content can quickly become overwhelming and lead to completing courses that are ultimately unrelated to your own specialized area of work. Why waste your time with courses you aren’t interested in when you could learn a new approach to treating the cases you see every day instead?

This is where we come in — curating personalized continued education options is a large focal point of ours, and something we are well renowned for. We want you to be taking relevant courses for your own specialty — a mental health counseling should be doing continuing education for mental health, have hard time fulfilling LADC license? We feel you, not sure how many credits should be in-person, ask us! Whether you like webinars, live events or article-based options, we can find the best options for your needs. Explore some of the top picks for four of the most common focus areas below, or download the CE app for an even more personalized selection.

Family

• The Male Box: A Journey Into the Minds of Boys and Men
  • Type: Webinar
  • Earn: 6 credits
  • As a family counselor or psychologist, understanding the minds of boys and men is absolutely crucial. This webinar will address correcting unhealthy behaviors in young boys to minimize occurrence in adulthood, communication barriers between men and women, and the root of anxiety in men.
• Computer-Mediated Communication in Intimate Relationships: Associations of Boundary Crossing, Intruism, Relationship Satisfaction, and Partner Responsiveness
  • Type: Article
  • Earn: 1 credit
  • With so much of our daily communication being dependent upon technology and our mobile devices, it is easy to assume there has been a large impact on how we communicate in-person to those close to us. This article addresses recent research on computer-mediated communication (CMC) and its effect on committed couples’ relationships, with results showing lower relationship satisfaction with higher online boundary crossing.

Sexual Abuse

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Addressing the Mental Health of Sexually Abused Children
  • Type: Article
  • Earn: 1 credit
  • Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) can help reduce negative emotional and behavioral responses in children after sexual abuse and other traumatic events. This material will help professionals working with at-risk families make better-informed decisions about initiating TF-CBT programs.
    
     
• Attachment-Focused EMDR for Early Child Sexual Abuse by a Stranger
  • Type: Digital Seminar
  • Earn: 1 credit
  • Dr. Parnell works with the client who presents with a history of sexual assaults and childhood physical abuse. The client reported symptoms of dissociation and present-day triggers that were troubling to her. 
    The video shows the use of an Attachment-Focus in the use of EMDR through the therapeutic relationship, the use of resources, and the use of the modified protocol that allowed the client to feel safe enough to enter into and process the traumatic material.

Addiction

• Identifying and Treating Your Patients’ (Often Unrecognized) Addictions
  • Type: Webinar
  • Earn: 3 credits
  • This webinar will introduce screening tools for subtle warning signs of addiction (from substance-related disorders to behavioral addictions) in order to effectively achieve early intervention. The treatment methods suggested can then be integrated into psychotherapy. Interested in identifying addictive versus non-addictive forms of behavior?
• Psychologists’ Roles in Helping to Treat Opioid-Use Disorders and Prevent Overdoses
  • Type: Article
  • Earn: 1 credit
  • Understanding the research-based treatments of opioid abuse is extremely important as the opioid epidemic continues to worsen throughout the nation. Answer 10 questions after reading the linked CDC article to earn your CE credit.
• The Treatment of Complex Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Dependence Home Study 
  • Type: Video
  • Earn: 6 credit
  • This webinar will focus on treating people plagued by complex additions issues.  You will learn about the risk and protective factors related to addiction. There will also be useful suggestions for assessing and treating addicted patients.  Adolescent addiction will be discussed. There will also be material on motivational interviewing and effective stress control.
     

Domestic Violence

• Advances in Addressing Violence: Assessment, Attachment and Treatment
  • Type: Webinar
  • Earn: 7 credits
  • This webinar provides tools to understand violence and how it is connected to emotional disturbance, mental illness and substance abuse. Exploration of potential treatment options includes an attachment-focused treatment approach to the treatment of violence and identifying clients’ negative thought patterns that might influence self-destructive and violent behavior.
• Effectively Addressing Child Victimization
  • Type: Article
  • Earn: 2 credits
  • Learn how to identify five types of child victimization, along with the associated short-term and long-term consequences for the child and family. Additional support tips for child victims and witnesses if required to participate in the criminal justice process.

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