Cross Country Education is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. (NBCC Provider #5904) The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. Six (6) contact (clock) hours are being awarded for completion of this program. Please contact our Continuing Education department for further information.

Aggressive Behavior in the Elderly:  Prevention and Management
An estimation of up to 46 percent of nursing home residents display verbal aggression and up to 51 percent display physical aggression. Aggressive behavior is widely recognized as the most common behavioral precipitant to nursing home admissions and can take a devastating toll in terms of physical and emotional injury, personal and property damage and facility liability.
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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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Art Therapy and Anxiety: Healing Through Imagery
Several case studies will illustrate the effectiveness of art therapy with anyone presenting with symptoms on the anxiety scale.  Participants will leave this course with new understanding and new skills and interventions to assist in the treatment of even their most difficult anxiety cases.
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Asperger's Syndrome
Due to the unique nature of Asperger's syndrome, an appropriate diagnosis is frequently not made until a child is an adolescent. One study reported that of 32 children determined to have Asperger's syndrome, 92 percent were initially provided with other diagnoses or educational labels. An accurate diagnosis is highly impacted by the experience the diagnostician has with this population.
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Assessing and Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder
Attachment should be an inevitable part of life. However, for many individuals, this is not the case. Those individuals who suffer from attachment issues live a confused, superficial life at best. Many have been misdiagnosed, given ineffective treatment and labeled as resistive to treatment. This only increases their defensiveness, anger and the feeling of being crazy or different which leads to further difficulties for the individual, families and society as a whole.
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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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Childhood Developmental Disorders
This seminar is designed to provide an understanding of each disorder, the relationship to brain development, methods for differential diagnosis and specific practical interventions. All professionals wanting a better understanding of these complicated disorders would benefit from attending this seminar.
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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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Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorder: Therapy for Tough Kids and Their Beleaguered Parents
Oppositional-Defiant Disorder in children and Conduct Disorder in adolescents -- similar disturbances at different points in development -- are difficult problems to treat, and are frustrating for therapists and parents alike. This training will review the outcome research on ODD and CD in order to identify the therapeutic techniques that have proven effective with disruptive behavior disorders.
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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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Play Therapy and Beyond: Treatment Techniques and Strategies
Professionals in every child-centered discipline across our country agree that as the years have passed, children are finding themselves in more complex situations. Children are being identified with more severe diagnoses at an earlier age, and possess less coping mechanisms. Children are identified in our schools and offices with ever-increasing complex or multiple psychiatric 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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School Refusal Behavior: Effective Techniques to Help Children Who Can't or Won't Go to School
School refusal is a problem that is stressful for children, for their families and for school personnel. Failing to attend school has significant long-term and short-term effects on children's social, emotional and educational development. School refusal is often the result of, or associated with, co-morbid disorders such as anxiety or depression. Completing the seminar will assist participants in performing a functional analysis of school refusal to determine the motivation and particular reinforcement systems that support the behavior.
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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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Wisdom of the Dream: A Jungian Approach to Dream Interpretation
Dreaming is a universal and well-documented human phenomenon. It has now been proven conclusively that not only do we dream every night, but we must dream in order to maintain a healthy psychological equilibrium. This course will provide a historical context and a theoretical foundation for the understanding and use of dream interpretation in a therapeutic setting, based on the work of C.G. Jung. Dr. Howard Tyas, Jr. will examine the basic concepts of Jungian psychology--including the structure of the psyche, the relationship between the ego and the unconscious, the importance of being able to think symbolically and how dreams provide a self-regulatory function in the psyche. 
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Working Effectively with Resistant and Burned-Out Parents
Resistant/burned-out parents create a difficult dilemma for most professionals. Oftentimes a professional is entering into the family system when the parents have already reached the state of being burned out, resistant, angry, hostile and unmotivated. If this occurs, a great deal of time and energy is wasted on attempting to motivate the parent in participating in the services that have been offered or mandated. In these situations there is minimal progress because of significant triangulation, manipulation and overt sabotaging by the parents. 
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