Continuing Education for Mental Health Professionals

A genuine and candid approach to engage with teens and their families, helping them find effective and face-saving ways to solve their problems.

Describes the key stages from drinking and transition to early and ongoing recovery.

Mary Pipher provides an understanding of the common patterns of adjusting to the aging process along with concrete strategies for coping with problems of aging.

This introductory course provides a basic understanding of the difficulties that people with Asperger's Syndrome can experience and offers suggestions for helping these individuals deal with a confusing world.

Provides a helpful overview of the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders and the importance of early screening, diagnosis and treatment. Includes press releases from NIMH.

Describes the impact, increases recognition, and deepens understanding of sexual trauma. Provides a phase-oriented therapy to guide therapeutic work.

An indispensable guide for clinicians who wish to develop skills and help clients with anxiety disorders experience lasting change. Using descriptive examples, the authors go "beyond manual" with their clinical wisdom and creative solutions.

An indispensable and practical guide for understanding the complexities of bipolar disorder, offering a collaborative approach for treating patients with a range of histories.

Leading professionals in the field of traumatic stress share their experiences and understanding of compassion fatigue, with suggestions for prevention through self-care. Includes an informative and moving video (50 minutes).

Using a combination of text material and a video presentation, this course is packed with information from leading experts about how to respond to people who have suffered severe trauma.

Robert Taibbi describes the nuts and bolts of how to work with couples and provide a safe environment for change. A highly readable, practical guide, rich with clinical wisdom and illustrative case examples.

Provides important, introductory information that will help the practitioner recognize and intervene in intimate partner violence. Includes case vignettes.

An essential update for psychologists on the changes in the APA 2002 Code of Ethics.

Provides a guide for ethical professional mental health practice, based upon the NASW Code of Ethics.

This course is an expanded version of Ethics for Social Work I, including additional material to meet the requirements of ASWB.

Provides an important update for counselors, based upon the 2005 ACA and NBCC Code of Ethics.

Addresses key considerations for understanding and resolving ethical dilemmas related to boundary issues, dual relationships and multiple relationships.

A comprehensive, practical and compassionate guide to professional ethics for the new therapist as well as the seasoned practitioner.

Offers a comprehensive approach to family assessment and intervention.

Offers the Florida Psychologist the opportunity to read and review the State's current laws and rules. Fulfills 1 hour of the Florida "Ethics and Laws" requirement.

A comprehensive overview of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.

This course provides basic information regarding who is at highest risk for HIV, the special challenges various groups face and what can improve prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

This online course provides key information for recognizing symptoms of depression and mania in people with HIV/AIDS, with recommendations for care and treatment.

This course illuminates the silent condition of loneliness, allowing the practitioner to understand the multidimensional nature of the problem and how the pain of loneliness differs from depression.

This reader-friendly guide is an invaluable resource, allowing an understanding of the medications your clients are taking.

This timely book is one of the most current and informative guides to interviewing people from all walks of life.

Describes types and causes of medical errors, high-risk areas of practices and steps to reduce systemic, diagnostic and treatment errors. Provides valuable, practical information for mental health practitioners in a variety of settings.

Validates the stepfamily as a healthy family system with its own unique structure.

Provides theoretical principles, detailed techniques, anecdotal illustrations and practical exercises to help clinicians use clients' personal snapshots and family photographs as catalysts for therapeutic communication.

Provides insights into the similarities and differences in bereavement depending upon context of death, the life stage, gender and individuality of the bereaved.

Drawing on resources from NCPTSD and Gift from Within, this course provides information, interventions and encouragement for practitioners who work with our returning veterans and their families. Includes a compassionate and insightful video interview with Frank Ochberg, MD (57 minutes).

Provides basic facts about suicide and those at risk, in order to promote awareness of this serious public health problem.

Discusses common problems and difficulties encountered in the courtroom. Offers practical suggestions and principles for strengthening one’s testimony.

A compassionate and practical guide for understanding OCD and its treatment.

An integrative approach, drawing on family systems, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral perspectives.

A model of treatment designed to help the offender take full responsibility for his violent acts and allevate the pain of the victim.

Identifies patterns which enable the diagnosis of depression. Provides strategies to facilitate the client’s recovery.

Provides information which will help the mental health provider understand the physical and mental symptoms associated with a wide range of medical problems, aiding the process of timely referral.

Provides a comprehensive guide to dream work that will help clients reach core issues quickly, make sense of events in waking life and achieve personal change.