CE Self Study Programs - Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
Anger Control Made Easy
The single most destructive element in life is anger. This seminar not only teaches you anger control, but how to not get angry in the first place.
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Applied Ethics for Behavioral Health Practitioners
This course will help sort out fact from fiction about the nature of ethics and
their application in practice. Clinicians will gain an appreciation for the purpose and application
of ethical standards, while learning to decrease risk in their practice.
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Assessment and Treatment of Dyslexia in Adolescents and Adults: No Adult Left Behind
Increasingly our communities and society include a large number of adolescents and adults whose lives have been negatively and seemingly irrevocably changed by some form of Reading Disorder-Dyslexia. Often, it not only affects academic and career efforts but negatively impacts interpersonal and social relationships as well.
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Attachment and the Oppositional Defiant Child
Teachers, mental health professionals and parents are regularly challenged with oppositional and defiant children. Such behavior is commonly seen in children with attachment disorders and PTSD. Professionals and parents often do not know how to handle these children.
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Bipolar: A New Slant on the Disorder
Counselors will find this seminar both interesting and fun and will walk away
with a better understanding of the bipolar disorder along with a wealth of new knowledge to add to
your therapy options.
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Borderline Personality Disorders: Treatment and Management That Works
Often experienced as exasperating and "impossible," patients with BPD often
confuse, frighten and frustrate counselors. Although largely unfamiliar to all but a few
"specialists" in the area, there are new, innovative and empirically validated methods with
proven effectiveness for managing and treating the behavior of this often bewildering client
population.
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Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Treating PTSD
Trauma victims are especially challenging clients for therapists. Their traumas are the result of many different situations, such as accidents, sexual abuse and physical assault. Participants will gain valuable tools to assist in the treatment of this population.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Making it Work in the Real World
Dialectical Behavior Therapy has been well-documented in studies at universities and research centers as being a highly effective treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder. However, clinicians are often surprised to find that translating DBT for use in frontline clinical settings such as mental health centers, residential programs, hospitals, clinics, schools and private practice can be surprisingly challenging.
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Early Development Disorders Resulting from Abuse: Therapeutic Techniques for Intervention and Prevention
This seminar is designed to provide an understanding of each disorder, the relationship to brain development, methods for differential diagnosis and specific practical ways to support brain growth. Professionals who work with and understand children will benefit from this precise, clear and critically valuable new research.
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Emergency Mental Health: Assessment & Treament
Mental health emergencies occur daily. They present themselves in emergency rooms nationwide. In this hands-on and practical seminar, participants will learn how to quickly assess and triage mental health emergencies.
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Ethical Pitfalls: Avoiding Professional Hazards
Did you know that many state Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist regulatory boards receive more than 200 complaints a year against licensees, alleging violations of the code of ethics? Through this fascinating exploration you will gain insight into the traps that have hurt both clients and clinicians, and provide prevention strategies and resources for every stakeholder.
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Mindfulness: Enhance Your Therapeutic Skills
Addiction, depression, loss, physical pain, frustration, stress -- every day we experience suffering, whether it is happening with clients or within ourselves. Individuals can benefit greatly from the care of a competent, skilled practitioner. Mindfulness is a meditation method that is best described as non-judgmental awareness leading to a deep sense of inner peace and calm. It is an effective tool for breaking through negative behaviors, difficult emotions and feelings. So, how do you engage in mindfulness and how do you teach it to clients?
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Parent Empowerment
Health professionals and educators now, more than ever, face the uphill battle of working with disruptive children and adolescents from all types of backgrounds. Youth who argue at school or home or act out violently are a constant challenge for untrained, tired and busy parents. Learn techniques to address behaviors such as tantrums, noncompliance, oppositional defiance, lying, sibling fighting, and insensitivity. Then you will have an arsenal of effective behavior changing methods to help rescue children and their parents from these feelings of helplessness.
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Personality Disorders in Social Work and Health Care
Although frequently acknowledged to be the largest and fastest growing mental
health issue, few counselors are trained to identify, assess, and intervene in cases that involve
personality disorders. It is almost always the driving force behind stressful, frustrating cases.
Without understanding of the phenomenon, ineffective interventions and unnecessarily high levels
of fatigue, stress, confusion and frustration can result.
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Personality Disorders: The Advanced Course
Participants' success in using Dr. Lester's approach to dealing with personality
disorders has led to an unprecedented demand for additional, even more
in-depth training from him
in working with personality disorders.
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Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Trauma histories in mental health populations are more widespread than most clinicians realize. With recent events such as September 11 and the war in Iraq, PTSD is even more prevalent. This seminar will discuss, in detail, the treatment components of Prolonged Exposure therapy in order to learn how to successfully treat PTSD. Advanced topics will also be discussed, such as how to handle multiple traumas and how to address substance abuse that co-exists with PTSD.
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Self-Mutilation Behavior in Youth and Adults: Causes, Treatment, and Prevention
The purpose of this highly practical program is to provide participants with a
comprehensive, research-based understanding of the causes of self-mutilation. Participants will
learn which of their clients is most at risk and discover effective treatment and prevention
strategies. To the extent that self-mutilation is often correlated with other serious psychiatric
illness, most notably depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline
personality disorder, these conditions will be discussed as well.
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The Three Stages of Healing: Counseling Victims of Sexual Trauma
Statistics indicate that 20 to 30 percent of the general population will be personally impacted by sexual trauma. Proper identification and effective treatment for all the ramifications of sexual abuse are essential to establishing and/or restoring physical and emotional health of the client. Sexual trauma is a complex problem that must be addressed in all of its physical, spiritual, emotional, social and cognitive areas.
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