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• -|- Trauma Informed Care Certificate Tra…

  Certificate to demonstrate awareness of Trauma Informed Care

  This online certificate track provides mental health and addiction counselors (LPC, LMHC, LPCC, LADC, CADC (and counselors in training), social workers (LCSW, LMSW, LSW, RSW), pastoral staff, case managers (CCM) and marriage and family therapists (LMFT) with the information they need to provide more sensitive, strengths-based treatment to persons who may be dealing with trauma.

  Objectives

  1. Trauma 101–Provides an overview of trauma, and an understanding of trauma informed principles and practices
  2. Trauma-Informed Care: Increases awareness of the different types of trauma, their impact and individual differences in the experience of traumatic events.
  3. Trauma Informed Care: Impact of Trauma: Overview of the effects of trauma on the brain and physical health; social relationships; mental health; and the community/society at large.
  4. Trauma Informed Care: Screening and Assessment
  5. Trauma Informed Care: Trauma Specific Services reviews many of the current best and promising practices for survivors of trauma, ranging from child abuse to natural disasters.
  6. Trauma and Resiliency: Highlights the concepts and components of individual, family and community resiliency.
  7. Neurological Impact of Trauma: Provides an overview of the human brain and its response to stress and trauma.
  8. Pharmacotherapy for Trauma: Reviews current practice guidelines for the use of SSRIs, Benzodiazepines, Rapid-Acting Antidepressants, Alpha-1 Antagonists and Mood Stabilizers
  9. Acute Stress Disorder: Assessment and Treatment
  10. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Trauma
  11. Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma
  12. Intro to Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Trauma

  $149.00 for 365 days
• Child Development 101: Parenting and Rep…

  Objectives

  • Explore the developmental tasks and needs of the infant stage (0-2 years old)
    • Maslow (Biological and safety needs)
    • Erickson (Trust vs. Mistrust)
    • Bowlby (Attachment)
    • Piaget (Cognition/schema formation)
  • Discuss how failure to get these needs met can result in later mental health issues
  • Discuss how failure to resolve the trust vs. mistrust crisis results in later mental health issues
  • Discuss how infant’s primitive cognitive abilities develop dysfunctional schemas for later in life
  • Examine how the child is starting to develop self esteem through initiative and independence
  • Explore what can go wrong in each stage and what can be done to repair damages now.
  • Review developmental tasks children accomplish at each stage
  • Examine how children’s thinking patterns are different than that of both toddlers and adolescents
  • Explore ways to assist children and teens in enhancing their self esteem
  • Introduce Kohlberg's theory of moral development
  • Examine how teens thinking patterns are different than that of both pre-teens and adults
  • Review Kohlberg's theory of moral development

  $24.00 for 90 days
• Co-Occuring Disorder and their Impact on…

  Objectives:

  • Explore the Minkoff model
  • Examine the reciprocal relationship between addictions and mental and physical health issues
  • Discuss the concept of co-occurring enhanced treatment

  $9.00 for 30 days
• Emotion Efficacy Therapy In Depth (10 Ho…

  Objectives:

  • Differentiate Emotion Efficacy Therapy from other types of therapy
  • Explore interventions to enhance emotional awareness, mindful acceptance, emotion surfing and values based action
  • Identify how this technique might be useful in your practice
    

  $20.00 for 90 days
• HIV 101 (10 Hours)

  Objectives

  • Discuss advances in HIV prevention and treatment
  • List the goals of HIV Counseling, Testing and Referral (CTR)
  • Identify the principles of CTR
  • Differentiate between targeted and routinely recommended CTR
  • Identify settings and populations that are at increased risk for HIV
  • Learn about circumstances for which HIV preventative treatment exists
  • Identify information all clients who request counseling should receive
  • Identify the elements of HIV prevention counseling
  • List the characteristics of the effective HIV CTR counselor
  • List ways to reduce barriers to HIV CTR
  • Correctly match HIV test technologies and results (screening vs. confirmatory)
  • Identify the difference between a reactive and nonreactive sample
  • List possible referral needs for clients testing HIV positive or for high-risk clients
  • Identify barriers to accessing referral resources
  • Learn the 11 standards to assess for quality assurance

  $30.00 for 90 days
• TIP 54 Treating Chronic Pain in Patients…

  This course takes a more in-depth look at TIP 54 than the shorter courses.
  

  Objectives:

  • Explore psychopharmacology and the role and effect of psychotropic medications in mental health
    
  • Define the problem
  • Identify and discuss differential diagnosis for various pain conditions
  • Examine the similarities between CNCP and addiction
  • Identify the impact of CNCP on patients
  • Discuss effective interventions for CNCP
  • Identify what counselors can do

  $30.00 for 90 days