| Credits: 6 | A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction - A Therapy Manual for Drug Addiction The following article is presents a manual for the use of cognitive-behavior therapy with individuals who abuse or are dependent on cocaine. It covers the general principles a More... | |||
| Credits: 6 | A Community Reinforcement Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction The following is a manual for the use of a community reinforcement plus an incentive for abstinence approach to the treatment of individuals who abuse or are dependent on coca More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | A Component Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Depression This article seeks to identify which of the three aspects of Aaron Becks model of cognitive-behavioral therapy are most critical to improvement in and/or recovery from major d More... | |||
| Credits: 5 | A Resiliency Approach to Early Crisis Intervention 5 CEC's - Psychologists, Counselors, Addictions Therapists, Nurses, Family Therapists Certain approaches commonly used in early crisis intervention strategies hav More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Abuse and Neglect, Not State Specific This course is an overview of abuse and neglect and how to recognize it in order to report it and to provide treatment and safe haven for its victims. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Accident Investigation v.1 This course discusses the importance of investigating an incident immediately, why an incident should be investigated in the first place, what needs to be investigated, and ho More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | ACHPR Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 7 Treatment of Depression-Newer Pharmacotherapies - Summary The ultimate purpose of this report is to help clinicians make informed choices about newer antidepressant drugs and herbal therapies, and to aid organizations developing clin More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addiction and the Elderly The purpose of this course is to examine the prevalence of elderly substance use disorders. This is an often overlooked population by addiction professionals. The general goal More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addiction Outcome Series 1 These brief review articles examine the reliability of a drug history questionnaire; guidelines in addictions; residential stays as predictors of re-admission; student assista More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Addictions, Series A, Part A This program highlights a variety of models of understanding and treating addictions, ranging from the traditional 12-step model, which is, in fact, cognitive behavioral, to s More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Addictions, Series A, Part B This program highlights a variety of models of understanding and treating addictions, ranging from the traditional 12-step model, which is, in fact, cognitive behavioral, to s More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Addictions, Series A, Part C This program highlights a variety of models of understanding and treating addictions, ranging from the traditional 12-step model, which is, in fact, cognitive behavioral, to s More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions, Series B Diagnosis And Treatment, Part A In the Addiction Series B, the course presents new theoretical and treatment approaches to various addictive disorders. This course has the following interviews: Robert Ta More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions, Series B Diagnosis And Treatment, Part B In the Addiction Series B, the course presents new theoretical and treatment approaches to various addictive disorders. This course includes interviews as follows: Linda C More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions, Series B Diagnosis And Treatment, Part C In the Addiction Series B, the course presents new theoretical and treatment approaches to various addictive disorders. This course includes interviews as follows: Carolyn More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Effective Treatment of Young Adults to Improve Outcomes This course is a presentation that focuses on the current trends of emerging adult substance abuse and mental health problems. Additionally we will review recommendations to s More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Adolescent Addiction, Part 1 This course is an overview of adolescent addiction and addiction treatment and examines topics including Substance Abuse and Dependence, Disease Concept and Progression of Add More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Compassion Fatigue & Helping Professionals Compassion Fatigue is a problem for many helping professionals. This training explores the difference between burnout and compassion fatigue, the signs of compassion fatigue, More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Addictions: Drug Seeking Behaviors and Pain Management This course examines drug seeking behaviors and how to identify such behaviors and is useful for both mental health and medical professionals. It also explores the complicate More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment: MISA Adolescent Series This course examines assessing for eating disorders and compares and contrasts Anorexia with Bulimia. Key Words: Addiction, Substance Abuse, Pain Management, Drug Seeking Beh More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Addictions: Experiential Therapies for Adults and Adolescents Training about how experiential therapies can enhance recovery for substance use disordered patients. Keywords: Addiction, Treatment, Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Treatmen More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: How to Survive & Thrive in Addictions Field - Adult Addiction Series This course addresses how to prevent professional burnout while working with patients in the addiction field. By learning more about the philosophy of the disease, profession More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Medically Assisted Recovery This course will address Addiction trends particularly related to opiate dependence, the increase in the use of heroin and prescription medication, the difficulties in treatin More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 1 - Intro to Addiction This course is Part 1 in an Addiction Series. This course is an overview of addiction and addiction treatment and examines topics including Substance Abuse and Dependence, Di More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 2 - Twelve Step Groups and Steps - What Are They? This course is Part 2 in an Addiction Series. Twelve Step Groups like Alcoholics Anonymous are a great resource for support and strength for people who have life controlling i More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 3 - Relapse Prevention This course is Part 3 in an Addiction Series. When working with addiction consumers, the recovery relapse needs to be understood in order to work with various prevention techn More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 4 - Customer Service This course is Part 4 in an Addiction Series. This course covers Customer Service and how best to serve the clients for improvement as well as for a sustainable outcome. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 5 - Ethics This course is Part 5 in an Addiction Series. This course covers Ethics and the treatment of clients. Areas covered include professional competence, values as well as the fo More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 6 - Interpersonal Interaction This course is Part 6 in an Addiction Series. . This course covers Interpersonal Interaction Skills needed in treating the consumer. These skills are needed in order build h More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 7 - Behavioral Intervention This course is Part 7 in an Addiction Series. This course covers Behavioral Intervention. With proper Behavioral intervention, the staff and the consumer can conduct proper More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Module 1 Unit 8 - Groups This course is Part 8 in an Addiction Series. . This course covers the use of Group counseling and how best to use groups in the treatment process of the consumer. Key W More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Motivational Interviewing - An Introduction Introduction to Motivational Interviewing including fundamentals, beliefs, counselor role, client role, and strategies of Motivational Interviewing. Key Words: Addiction, More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Addictions: Suicide and Substance Use Disorders This course is an overview of suicide and how it relates to substance use disorders. Discussion will include drugs or choice and correlation to suicide, protective factors, r More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Adolescence Part A Dr. Bloch explains his model of conceptualizing acting out behaviors in adolescence, developmental difficulties, predictors of an adolescent's ability to use peer relationship More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Adolescence Part B James Alexander, Ph.D. "Adolescents in Managed Care" discusses the goals of the first session, the motivation phase of treatment, positive predictors of outcome, and the big More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Adolescence Part C Colin Pereira Webber, M.A. "Parent Loss in Adolescence" describes the coping styles of children who have a lost a parent, the difference between adjustment and internal proc More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Adolescent Depression This course examines two research articles written about adolescent depression. The first article, The Development of Depression in Children and Adolescents, present a develop More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Aggression in Childhood and Long-Term Unemployment in Adulthood: A Cycle of Maladaptation and Some Protective Factors This article examines the effect of early childhood aggression on long-term unemployment and examines the pathways through which such a relationship exists, e.g., aggression p More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | AIDS in the Workplace The goal of this course is to inform workers about the incidence, risks, and precautions for occupational exposure to HIV/AIDS and to provide information on fair employment pr More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | AIDS in the Workplace v.1 The goal of this course is to inform workers about the incidence, risks, and precautions for occupational exposure to HIV/AIDS and to provide information on fair employment pr More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Alzheimer: Psychological Consequences of Alzheimer’s Disease The purpose of this course is look at the impact of Alzheimer’s dementia on the cognitive, social and emotional well being of the affected individual, as well as consider the More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Alzheimer’s Disease 101 This course will present an overview of what we know about Alzheimer’s disease, including its effect on the brain, potential causes of the disease and a discussion of the typi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Americans with Disabilities Act Provides Equal Opportunities The General Rule of Title I (Section 102) as amended in 2008 reads: “No covered entity shall discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability in regard t More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Americans with Disabilities Act, What Supervisors Need to Know This session is about the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA. The ADA is the federal law that prohibits employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | An Introduction to Brief Solution Oriented Therapy This article provides an excellent and concise overview of brief solution-oriented psychotherapy. The author describes some of the basic operating assumptions, strategies, tec More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | An Introduction to the Culture of Safety and Assessing the Culture of Safety Efforts to reduce the incidence of performance errors and improve patient safety in the healthcare environment have focused on redesigning work processes. However, errors con More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Anger Management A selective review of research illustrates how anxiety and anger increase vulnerability to illnesses, compromise the immune system, increase lipid levels, exacerbate pain, and More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Appraisals Techniques: How to conduct Effective Performance Appraisals v.2 The sensitive nature of having one’s performance reviewed is undeniable—but so is the importance of such reviews to the company. Performance appraisals are a vital part of eve More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Are We Manufacturing Victims? In this article, Tana Dineen, Ph.D., an active advocate for a greater scientific base to psychologys (including all behavioral health practitioners) pronouncements about behav More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | As the Pendulum Swings: The Etiology of PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Revictimization As stated by the author - "During the 19th century, a picture was painted of trauma in which the focus was on pathologies of the victims, including notions of inherited "moral More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Asbestos Awareness v.2 This training session will focus on the basics of asbestos hazards, potential points of exposure, asbestos management, and some basic work procedures. Additional training is r More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Assessment and Performance Improvement Accreditation Series In this set of brief articles, the author covers several issues related to accreditation and compliance with documentation and performance improvement standards. The focus is More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Autism Spectrum – The Personal Experience This is course is for those of us in the behavioral health field who are likely to be taught or have been taught about the autism spectrum by professional providers and resear More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Introduction This course provides a very basic introduction to the Autism Spectrum Disorders for providers who have little to no knowledge of the prevalence, basic symptoms or indicators, More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Baker and Marchman Acts v. 2 The Baker and Marchman Acts module consists of an introduction to both the Baker Act and the Marchman Act (also known as the Florida Mental Health Act Part I Chapter 394 F.S., More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Batterer Programs: What Criminal Justice Agencies Need to Know This report, a summary of the full-length study, presents basic information about batterer intervention programs operating throughout the country. The interventions described More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Behavior Management: Interventions in Dementia This course provides an introduction to the theory and principles of behavior management and the specific application of behavioral interventions in managing problem behaviors More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Behavioral Assessment: An Overview The following article is an excellent description of a comprehensive behavioral assessment and of a functional analysis of behavior. While the population focus of the article More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Behavioral Health Advance Directives and Crisis Plans This course provides an introduction to behavioral health or psychiatric advance directives. Participants will learn what behavioral health advance directives are, what infor More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Bereavement in Early Childhood, Part A The movie, Ponette is an absolute marvel. You will not need it in order to complete the test. Ponette is four years old when her mother dies in an accident. For Ponette, this More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Bereavement in Early Childhood, Part B A panel discussion with Froma Walsh, Ph.D., author of "Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy" and Robert Neimeyer, Ph.D., author of "Dying: Facing the Facts." More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Borderline Personality Part A People with Borderline Personality Disorder are probably the most challenging of all the patients most of us see. Showing a profound lack of integration of their personal iden More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Borderline Personality Part B Here, we explore the treatment of individuals with BPD and Borderline couples from the Object Relations perspective. A primary task of object relations treatment is to interp More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Borderline Personality Part C A history of self-mutilating behavior is one of the 9 indicators of Borderline Personality Disorder. Self-injury is one of our society's fastest-growing and most disturbing pr More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Borderline Personality Part D Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive, cognitive-behavioral treatment for individuals meeting criteria for borderline personality. Devised by Marsha Linehan at More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Borderline Personality Part E While understanding of BPD has been traditionally grounded in psychodynamic formulations, it has been become increasingly clear that BPD emerges from vulnerabilities in brain More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Brainscan, Dyslexia, Childcare These articles describe how brainscans are being used to study learning and how those results may be translated to the classroom; debates concerning whether dyslexia stems fro More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Brief Strategic Family Therapy The Spanish Family Center (in Miami, Florida) needed to develop interventions to help recent immigrant Hispanic families' work together to deal with the stress of acculturatio More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Brief Treatment - Volume III Part A Understand Brief Treatment from a number of theoretical perspectives and treatment approaches. This course has the following interviews: Maria Corwin, Ph.D., BCD, gives More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Brief Treatment - Volume III Part B Peter Sifneos, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard, author of SHORT- TERM, ANXIETY PROVOKING PSYCHOTHERAPY, discusses his method: the criteria used in selection More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Brief Treatment - Volume III Part C Michael Franz Basch, M.D., "A Psychodynamic Approach to Brief Treatment." The listener will learn about Dr. Basch’s developmental model for brief treatment, in which the ther More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Brief Treatment - Volume III Part D Matthew Selekman, M.S.W., "Brief Treatment with Difficult Adolescents." The listener will learn how Mr. Selekman works with difficult, acting-out adolescents in brief treatmen More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Case Management, 01 Introduction Starting with the perspective of the people being served, this unit examines the significant role of case management in the mental health and substance abuse treatment fields. More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Case Management, 02 Models and Functions of Case Management: What Case Managers Do
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| Credits: 2 | Case Management, 03 - Who are consumers of Case Management Services? This unit defines eligibility criteria for case management services including the federal and state definitions of mental illness, the dimensions of mental illness, and how me More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Case Management, 04 - Mood Disorders This unit will continue what was started in Unit 3, focusing on the Mood Disorders, including an emphasis on Bipolar Disorders and Major Depressive Disorders. We will briefly More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Case Management, 05 - The Recovery Perspective The recovery perspective is strongly supported as policy by the federal government and underlies several different approaches to providing mental health service. In this unit More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Case Management, 06 - Listening, Communicating and Problem-Solving Specific communication skills that underlie success in helping people ‘recover their lives’ are listening and talking skills. We briefly touched on these in Unit 5. However, More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Catharsis, Aggression, and Persuasive Influence: Self-Fulfilling or Self-Defeating Prophecies? This article reviews the results of two studies examining the effect of procatharsis or anticatharsis messages on later aggression in the individuals studied. Results do not s More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Challenging Behavior: A Model for Breaking Barriers to Social and Community Integration In the effort to integrate people with developmental disability into the community, those with severely challenging behaviors require support plans that produce durable and ge More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Chemical Dependency Treatment These articles examine how Americas business community is coping with substance abusing employees; the criteria, methods and results thus far of home detox; and prison-based s More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Childhood Mental Illness This course examines to research articles centered on childhood mental illness. The goal of first article is to identify interventions with positive treatment effects that hav More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Children's and Adolescents' Exposure to Community Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Reactions, and Treatment Implications This article summarizes the literature suggesting that exposure to community violence, whether as victim or witness, is associated with high rates of post-traumatic stress sym More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Classroom Teachers Ratings of the Acceptability of In-Class Crisis Intervention Services This study examined teacher attitudes regarding the provision of in-class crisis intervention services and factors associated with these attitudes. Factors studied included va More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Clinical Documentation Complete and accurate documentation of services for reimbursement by state Medicaid programs is a skill that a service provider can learn through increased knowledge of the re More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Clinical Outcome Series 1 In this series, seven outcome-oriented research articles are briefly summarized. Content includes the following: long-term outcomes of discharged state hospital patients, pred More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Clinical Supervision Part A "Dimensions of Supervision" - Russell Haber, Ph.D., discusses the dimensions of supervision from a systemic point of view: how the intellect, skills, emotions, and intuition More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Clinical Supervision Part B "The Supervisory Relationship" - Drs. Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, and Joan Sarnat, co-authors of The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach, present "rel More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Clinical Supervision Part C "Deepening the Supervisory Experience" - Dr. Wendy Haskell continues and elaborates on the Relational Model of Supervision, discussing the "positioning" of the supervisor, wha More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Clinical Supervision Part D "Online Supervision" Dr. Allen Siegels began email supervision with a Psychiatrist in Germany who wished to learn about self-psychology. In the first part of this interview, More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Club Drugs, Prevention, Women, PTSD, Cocaine and Psychosis Description: Content in this newsletter covers recent research findings on topics such as science-based drug abuse prevention programs, relapse of methadone-treated heroin add More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Combat PTSD, Startle Habituation as a Model of PTSD, Traumatic Memories The following content is available in this volume: (1) A description of psychological interventions used to decrease command hallucinations in combat veterans with PTSD-relate More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Confidentiality of Patient Records for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment CSAT’s Technical Assistance Publication 13 provides an overview of the Federal Regulations on the disclosure of confidential information for alcohol and other drug treatment p More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Corporate Compliance: Understanding Your Role in Corporate Compliance v.1 Intended for the orientation and training of the nursing and clinical staff in healthcare organizations and facilities, this course will acquaint staff members with the genera More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Crime in the Schools: Reducing Conflict With Student Problem This article describes the process and results of a student-based problem-solving approach to improving the safety of students and teachers in their school. Rather than ‘secur More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Crisis Intervention And Risk Assessment Crisis Intervention and Risk Assessment introduces the commonalities that are experienced by almost everyone in any type of crisis scenario. This includes the general s More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Crisis Intervention and Verbal De-escalation This course explores how to handle a volatile person or situation in order to minimize the chance of escalation toward violence or physical aggression. Topics discussed inclu More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Part A The overall theme of this volume is the treatment of difficult patients or patients in very difficult situations. The topics covered are Child Treatment; Gerontology; Persona More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Part B Karla Clark, Ph.D. "Disorders of the Self" presents her model of conceptualization and treatment of the borderline personality disorder, and individuals with attachment diso More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Part C James Garborino, Ph.D. "Children who Kill," author of Lost Boys, discusses the reasons for the emergence of aggressive behavior in children. He discusses why our society is t More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Part D Bob G. Knight, Ph.D. "Treatment of the Elderly" discusses methods of assessing older adults, how to complete a therapeutic life review, and how treatment of the older adult More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Part E Robert Yufit, Ph.D. "Manipulative Suicide Threats," distinguishing truly serious and dangerous suicidal intentions is a source of great concern for the therapist. Dr. Yufit More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Part F Stephen Shuchter, M.D., M.D. "Biologically Informed Treatment of Depression" presents his model for the treatment of depression, and the latest group of medications for depr More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Cross-Cultural Counseling In Disaster Settings This article reviews cross-cultural counseling briefly and then summarizes some of the cross-cultural literature on disaster response. It focuses more on similarities across c More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Fundamental Features of Extraversion This article reports on several studies which examine the core feature of the extraversion trait. Is it sociability or reward sensitivity? Further, they examine the generaliza More... | |||
| Credits: 4 | Cultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-Being In this article, Fredrickson presents support for her theories about the role of positive emotions in intervening with and preventing the negative aftereffects of negative emo More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Cultural Diversity - A Primer This workshop is designed to help all employees look at themselves and to identify attitudes and behaviors that stand in the way of group productivity. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Dealing with Challenging Employees Many organizations face the arduous task of having to manage difficult employees. Supervising other people is never easy, and some employees make it particularly difficult. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Demographics, Issues and Challenges in Older Adult Behavioral Health The course provides an overview of the mental health needs of older adults and the barriers to meeting those needs. We explore strategies for meeting the challenges of providi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Depression Without Sadness: Alternative Presentations of Depression in Late Life This article, written primarily for family physicians but potentially useful for behavioral health providers, identifies a number of alternative indications of depression in o More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Detecting and Describing Preventive Intervention Effects in a Universal School-Based Randomized Trials This article examines theoretical, methodological, and statistical problems involved in evaluating the outcome of aggression on the playground for a universal preventive inter More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Disability in the Workplace v.2 ADA of 1990 covers most employers with 15 or more employees. It was created to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. One of its most important goals More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Disease Management This series of articles discusses disease management in behavioral care, including biofeedback and depression, and new findings on addiction and the brain and the use of inter More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Diversity: Embracing Diversity in the Workplace This course helps you understand many different aspects of diversity in your workplace. It takes you to the next step beyond tolerating or just accepting diversity to embracin More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence I Part A Rochelle Hanson, Ph.D. "Overview" defines domestic violence as involving a broad spectrum of abusive behavior and discusses the phases in the cycle of violence. Because man More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence I Part B Brad Barris, Ph.D. "Anger Management" recommends a type of treatment for anger management closely related to cognitive-behavior therapy. He describes his theories of the c More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence II Part A Diane Zosky, Ph.D. "An Object-Relations Approach" states that current approaches to Domestic Violence, which focus on the sociopolitical and the family system can overlook More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence II Part B Robert Galatzer-Levy, MD, and Nancy Murphy, Ph.D. "Protecting the Victim" present the first steps for a clinician to take in working with a battered woman, and explains why ma More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence: Batterer Programs: What Criminal Justice Agencies Need to Know This report, a summary of the full-length study, presents basic information about batterer intervention programs operating throughout the country. The interventions described More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence: Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey This article summarizes the results of a national survey on men's and women's experiences with violence. It provides data on the prevalence and incidence of rape, physical ass More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Domestic Violence: Stalking - Stalking in America: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey This article in brief presents data from the first-ever national study on stalking and addresses these and related questions. Since the data show stalking to be much more prev More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Driver Safety This training session has been designed to help every employee understand the basics of defensive driving. If your job requires you to drive for the company, such as a deliv More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Driver Safety v.2 The strength, growth, and continued operation of every economy is the consistent transport of goods and services. This essential element keeps roads and highways busy. With More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Drug Free Workplace v.2 Drug-Free Workplace Acts of 1988 and 1998 Drug and alcohol abuse impacts all of us both at work and at home. Accidents caused by someone under the influence of drugs or alco More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Dual Diagnosis Part 1 Version 2 The overview presents statistics on the frequency of occurrence and also includes major trends that have led to the increasing interest in the area of dual diagnosis treatment More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Dual Diagnosis Part 2 Version 2 This course discusses the difficulty of co-occurring disorders, and introduces the concept of system “misfits.” Differences between substance abuse and substance dependence ar More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Dual Diagnosis Part 3 Version 2 This course introduces the idea of an integrated treatment program and discusses the parallels that exist between traditional mental health and substance abuse treatment. Phas More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Dual Diagnosis Part 4 Version 2 This course introduces the idea of an integrated treatment program and discusses the parallels that exist between traditional mental health and substance abuse treatment. Phas More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | EMDR and Thought Field Therapy The following content is available in this volume: (1) A review of EMDR and Thought Field Therapy from the perspective of classical conditioning and (2) A presentation of a Th More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Emergency Preparedness v.3 This course is designed for general audiences. The goal of this course is to provide information that helps increase employee awareness and knowledge of various emergency sit More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Emotional Reactions to Chronic Medical Illness, Part A This program is about chronic illness: an illness or condition that will not be cured, although we may get better and we may be able to maintain ourselves at a high level. In More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Emotional Reactions to Chronic Medical Illness, Part B This program is about chronic illness: an illness or condition that will not be cured, although we may get better and we may be able to maintain ourselves at a high level. In More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Emotional Reactions to Chronic Medical Illness, Part C This program is about chronic illness: an illness or condition that will not be cured, although we may get better and we may be able to maintain ourselves at a high level. In More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Emotional Reactions to Chronic Medical Illness, Part D This program is about chronic illness: an illness or condition that will not be cured, although we may get better and we may be able to maintain ourselves at a high level. In More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Emotional Reactions to Chronic Medical Illness, Part E This program is about chronic illness: an illness or condition that will not be cured, although we may get better and we may be able to maintain ourselves at a high level. In More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Empirical of Brief Group Therapy Conducted in an Internet Chat Room According to this article the purpose of this study was to examine group therapy procedures in an anonymous, password-protected Internet chat room. Comparisons of groups showe More... | |||
| Credits: 2.5 | Empirically Based Decision Making In Clinical Practice In the words of the author, “Evidence suggests that while clinical practitioners generally value scientific validity, most clinical practices are not strongly supported by emp More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics I, Part A: Decisions Involving Therapist and Patient George Stricker, Ph.D. "Self Disclosure" discusses his unique point of view on self-disclosure --- its meaning to the patient and the therapeutic relationship, and how to dec More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics I, Part B: Decisions Involving Therapist and Patient Sandra Nye, MSW, J.D. "Patient/Therapist Relations" discusses the legal repercussions of any personal involvement with patients and/or their families, and why we can never, ne More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics II - Confidentiality Part A The field of mental health and psychotherapy, no topic is the subject of as much concern and confusion as the topic of confidentiality. Does the therapist take the approach of More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics II - Confidentiality Part B The field of mental health and psychotherapy, no topic is the subject of as much concern and confusion as the topic of confidentiality. Does the therapist take the approach of More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics III, Part A: Money and the Therapeutic Relationship As bookkeeping requirements for payment increase, and as the current reimbursement system becomes ever more parsimonious, sometimes unfair, and frequently cold-hearted, ethica More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics III, Part B: Money and the Therapeutic Relationship As bookkeeping requirements for payment increase, and as the current reimbursement system becomes ever more parsimonious, sometimes unfair, and frequently cold-hearted, ethica More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics IV Part A Boundaries There are many situations and traditions and practices in other forms of therapy in which certain boundaries are murky. There is a wide range of "boundary crossings" that are More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics IV Part B Managed Care There are many situations and traditions and practices in other forms of therapy in which certain boundaries are murky. There is a wide range of "boundary crossings" that are More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics IX, Part A, Children's Issues Child abuse and neglect result in five deaths every day in the United States. Against the feudal backdrop of children as quasi-property, there is always a tension between the More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics IX, Part B, Children's Issues Child abuse and neglect result in five deaths every day in the United States. Against the feudal backdrop of children as quasi-property, there is always a tension between the More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics Series A series of brief articles is presented. They address the following topics: the ethics of the term "patient compliance"; the challenge to ethics presented by managed care; org More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics V, Part A, Spiritual Issues in Clinical Practice Many ethical questions arise out of the incorporation of spirituality into ones clinical practice. These range from the appropriateness of prayer in the therapy or counseling More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics V, Part B, Spiritual Issues in Clinical Practice Many ethical questions arise out of the incorporation of spirituality into ones clinical practice. These range from the appropriateness of prayer in the therapy or counseling More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics VI, Part A, Chronic Medical Illness In dealing with those who are chronically and/or terminally ill, one's ethical decisions truly can have life and death consequences. But now, the complicated interactions betw More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Ethics VI, Part B, Chronic Medical Illness Margot Escott, LCSW "Medical Errors" explains why medical error training is important for non-medical health providers and discusses the most common errors that occur. San More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Ethics VII, Part A, Sexual Misconduct Overview One would think, after all these years of having it pounded into our heads, that sexual misconduct—entering into a sexual relationship with our clients or patients—would be a More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Ethics VII, Part B, Risk Management Mania One would think, after all these years of having it pounded into our heads, that sexual misconduct—entering into a sexual relationship with our clients or patients—would be a More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Ethics VII, Part C, Psychodynamic Understandings One would think, after all these years of having it pounded into our heads, that sexual misconduct—entering into a sexual relationship with our clients or patients—would be a More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Ethics VIII, Part A Repercussions of Sexual Misconduct In the partner program to this one, Ethics 7, “Sexual Misconduct,” we explored the psychological and psychodynamic underpinnings of therapists who commit these severe boundary More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Ethics VIII, Part B, Repercussions of Sexual Misconduct In the partner program to this one, Ethics 7, “Sexual Misconduct,” we explored the psychological and psychodynamic underpinnings of therapists who commit these severe boundary More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Ethics VIII, Part C, Rehabilitation In the partner program to this one, Ethics 7, “Sexual Misconduct,” we explored the psychological and psychodynamic underpinnings of therapists who commit these severe boundary More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Evidence Based Best Practices Course examines Evidence Based Healthcare using four components: Research, Institutional Parameters, Clinical Expertise and the Patient Profile. This course gives examples More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Evidence-Based Practices for Treating Individuals Experiencing Trauma and/or PTSD - Part 1 Certain evidence-based practices for treating individuals, adults and children, with trauma-related symptoms and/or PTSD have been identified and have been found to produce re More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Evidence-Based Practices for Treating Individuals Experiencing Trauma and/or PTSD - Part 2 Certain evidence-based practices for treating individuals, adults and children, with trauma-related symptoms and/or PTSD have been identified and have been found to produce re More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Exercise Therapy for Patients With Psychiatric Disorders: Research and Clinical Implications This article examines previous literature reviews and then reviews the more recent research on the effects of exercise on a range of diagnostic groups, including depression, a More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Fair Labor Standards Act Part I This training session will focus on the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA. You may also know FLSA as the Wage and Hour Law. This federal law regulates minimum wage, overtime, More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Fair Labor Standards Act Part II In the first part of our Fair Labor Standards Act training session we dealt with the basic components of the law—minimum wage, work hours, overtime, and equal pay. In this ses More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Food Safety Food service safety is very important because people can get sick if food sits at room temperature, or if germs get into food or drinks. “Clean” is not the same as “safe.” Han More... | |||
| Credits: 7 | Fools Gold: A Critical Look at Computers and Childhood Computers are reshaping children's lives, at home and at school, in profound and unexpected ways. Common sense suggests that we consider the potential harm, as well as the pro More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Foster Care, Part A, Overview to Attachment Theory Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issu More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Foster Care, Part B, Attachment Issues in Children’s in Foster Care Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issu More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Foster Care, Part C, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issu More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Foster Care, Part D, Rebuilding Family Ties Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issu More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Foster Care, Part E. Sexual Abuse and Foster Care Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issu More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Foster Care, Part F, Psychotherapy with Psychologically Traumatized Children in Foster Care Recent figures show 513,000 children were in foster care in the United States and as many as 5.4 million children living with grandparents. In this program we explore the issu More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Fraud Control in the Health Care Industry: Assessing the State of the Art This article describes the health care industrys traditional approach to fraud control, the weaknesses of that approach, and the essential elements of more effective fraud con More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | GAF Rating Scale The Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (or GAF, for short) is used as Axis V of the multiaxial diagnostic system of the American Psychiatric Association's “Diagnostic and More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Genes and smoking, Ketamine-PCP-Alcohol trigger cell death, PCP overdose and abuse Description: Content in this newsletter covers a number of physiological research findings, including the contribution of genetic factors to smoking, the action of certain dru More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Genetic vulnerability; ADHD; MDMA; Dual diagnosis; pregnancy and prenatal care Content in this newsletter covers genetic vulnerability to drug abuse; ADHD, its treatment and drug abuse; MDMA, teen smoking; drug abuse and mental disorders; pregnant drug u More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Gerontology and Mental Health As more and more people age or deal with aging family members, clinicians may be increasingly called upon to understand the behavior of older adults and to provide therapeutic More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Global Assessment of Functioning Scale The Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (or GAF, for short) is used as Axis V of the multiaxial diagnostic system of the American Psychiatric Associations “Diagnostic and S More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Grief Work, Part A Mila Tecala is an internationally renowned expert on grief and mourning in the face of catastrophic events: In the wake of the events of September 11th, she worked with employ More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Grief Work, Part B In "A Narrative-Constructivist Approach" Robert Neimeyer, Ph.D. knows about the trauma of loss and its aftermath from the inside out. In his compassionate work on coping with More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Grief Work, Part C "AIDS Partners and Loss" - Dennis Shelby, Ph.D., BCD, is the author of If a Partner Has AIDS: A Guide to Clinical Intervention, he discusses his research with patients whose l More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Grief Work, Part D "Disaster Mental Health" - John Weaver, LCSW, is the author of Disaster Mental Health, he reports first, on his work at the Pennsylvania crash site and World Trade Center. The More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Grounds for Termination and Termination Process Two of the most common types of employment relationships are employment at will and contract employment. With employment at will, there is no oral or written contract specifyi More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Heterogeneity of Popular Boys: Antisocial and Prosocial Configurations This article reports on a study of antisocial behavior and popular status among elementary and middle school boys. The findings suggest that highly aggressive boys can be amon More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | HIPAA: An Introduction This is a course that presents key information; highlighting Titles I & II of the HIPAA law. This course is targeted to general audiences who are looking to gain an understan More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | HIPAA: For Behavioral Health Providers This course presents key information, highlighting Administrative Simplification and the Privacy Rule of HIPAA law. This course is targeted to Behavioral Health Providers who More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | HIPAA: For Nurses This course presents key information, highlighting Titles I & II of the HIPAA law. This course is targeted to nurses who are looking to gain an understanding of HIPAA and how More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | HIPAA: For Substance Abuse Providers This course presents key information, highlighting Title II and the Privacy Rule of HIPAA law. This course is targeted to Substance Abuse Providers. Most of the content in t More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Human Rights - State of Virginia This course will provide you with information about why human rights are important, and who is responsible for developing, enforcing and complying with the human rights regula More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Human Rights, Rules and Regulations to Assure Individual Rights, Virginia Specific This course will provide you with information about why human rights are important, and who is responsible for developing, enforcing and complying with the human rights regula More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Immigrant Populations as Victims: Toward a Multicultural Criminal Justice System This article summarizes a study that investigated whether the diverse cultural makeup of many communities requires the criminal justice system to modify its approach, particul More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Improving Communication Between Clinical Psychologists and Primary Care Physicians In this article, the authors "suggest a number of modalities for improving effective communication between clinical psychologists and primary care physicians to help physician More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Incident Reporting-Will Need Organization Changes This course provides information about why an incident report is used, when it is used, the steps involved in correctly documenting information, and how the report is used aft More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Individual Differences and Debriefing Effectiveness This article discusses the assumptions that emergency workers all have the same response to the trauma they may encounter in their work and that all should receive formal debr More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Infectious diseases and the relationship of drug use to their spread Description: Content in this newsletter focuses extensively on infectious diseases and the relationship of drug use to their spread. In addition, articles explore cocaine abus More... | |||
| Credits: 0.75 | Influenza Virus: H1N1 H1N1 (referred to as “swine flu” early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Internet and Mental Health This course will introduce you to several of the multitude of possibilities for using the Internet in providing behavioral health services. Possibilities include providing th More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Interviewing Skills v.2 After screening resumes and applications, face-to-face interviews determine which of the candidates who have met your basic qualifications are best for a particular job. Sup More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Intimidation in the Healthcare Work Place Efforts to reduce the incidence of performance errors and improve patient safety in the healthcare environment have focused on redesigning work processes. However, errors con More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Is Diagnosis a Disaster?: A Constructionist Trialogue In Gergen’s words, ‘From a constructionist standpoint, our languages for describing and explaining the world (and ourselves) are not derived from or demanded by whatever is th More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Knowledge and Perceived Risk of Major Diseases in Middle-Aged and Older Women This article reports on womens knowledge of mortality risks and their perceived general risk, personal risk, control, and preventability of coronary heart disease (CHD) and br More... | |||
| Credits: 4 | Listening to Prozac but Hearing Placebo: A Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Medication This article reports on a meta-analysis of 2,318 patients who had been randomly assigned to either antidepressant medication or placebo in 19 double-blind clinical trials. The More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Managed Care Intense frustration with managed care has led many practitioners to withdraw from the system. The speakers on this program discuss how to "manage" managed care. David Tenn More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Management of Change v.2 Companies that do not make changes within their organization will not remain competitive— whether that change comes in the form of merger, acquisition, product, service, techn More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Managing Non-English-Speaking Employees twenty-first century, we’re finding that a growing number of people in the U.S. workforce have limited proficiency in the English language. It is important for managers and More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Managing Stress Part I of II This course is designed for general audiences. The goal of this course is to provide information that helps employees increase their awareness and knowledge of stress, stress More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Managing Stress Part II of II This course is designed for general audiences. The goal of this course is to provide information that helps employees increase their awareness and knowledge of stress, stress More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Marijuana, Nicotine and Cocaine, Pain, MDMA and Steroids Content in this newsletter covers recent research findings on topics such as withdrawal experiences of long-term marijuana users, abstract reasoning and treatment effectivenes More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Marital Therapy Part A From the point of view of the Scharffs, a couple is a system of conscious and unconscious intrapsychic object relationships. All the object relations theorists share the funda More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Marital Therapy Part B In “A Systemic Approach to Treating Couples with an Alcoholic Spouse” Dr. Michael Rohrbaugh, Ph.D addresses from a systems perspective, alcohol problems are interwoven with t More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Marital Therapy Part C Frank Pittman, M.D. in “Infidelity” discusses how most therapists view affairs as expressive of troubled relationships. Quite to the contrary, Dr. Frank Pittman views affairs More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Measuring Neuropsychological Change in Schizophrenia with Novel Antipsychotic Medications According to this article, the recent introduction of second-generation antipsychotic medications has stimulated considerable interest in cognitive changes to pharmacotherapeu More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Medical Errors and Safety in Behavioral Health The focus of ‘medical error’ work and education has been on medication and other physical healthcare issues. However, there is much to be done in the behavioral health field More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Medicare Part D Fraud, Waste and Abuse Prevention The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services known as CMS has released the 9th and final chapter for the Prescription Drug Benefit Manual regarding a program to control fraud More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Executive Summary This is the first Surgeon General's report ever issued on the topic of mental health and mental illness. The science-based report conveys several messages. One is that mental More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Excel 2003: Level 1 This course will familiarize you with the most commonly used basic functions and commands within the Excel 2003 environment, including the Menu Bar, Toolbars and the Task Pane More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Excel 2003: Level 2 This course will familiarize you with the tools required to create, edit and customize advanced spreadsheets. This course teaches skills such as adjusting the many view modes More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Excel 2007: Level 1 Course Description: This course provides the steps to building a spreadsheet, working with data, and performing fundamental operations that are critical to maximizing user ex More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Excel 2007: Level 2 This course provides the steps to utilize formulas, name and manipulate data ranges, create charts from data, and audit worksheets for errors in Microsoft® Excel 2007. Ke More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Office 2003: An Introduction - Part 1 This course will familiarize you with the most commonly used elements and features used by all programs within the Microsoft® Office Suite 2003. Items covered will include wor More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Office 2003: An Introduction - Part 2 This course will familiarize you with the most commonly used elements and features used by all programs within the Microsoft® Office Suite 2003. Items covered will include op More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Office 2007: Foundations - Part 1 This course provides an introduction to the new user interface in the major Office applications and shows you how to perform fundamental operations that are common to all Micr More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Office 2007: Foundations - Part 2 This course provides more information on the new user interface in the major Office applications and shows you how to perform fundamental operations that are common to all Mic More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Office 2007: Foundations - Part 3 This course provides more information on the new user interface in the major Office applications and shows you how to perform fundamental operations that are common to all Mic More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Office 2007: Using the Graphics Tools They say a picture is worth a thousand words, is it really? It’s up to you. Graphics for their own sake might simply clutter up a file and make it more time consuming to send More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003: Level 1 This course will familiarize you with the most common features and commands used while creating multi-media presentations with Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003. Items covered will i More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007: Level 1 This course will demonstrate how to perform procedures and how to utilize certain tools. This course will provide the steps to building a presentation and working with slides More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007: Level 2 This course will demonstrate how to assemble slides, deliver a presentation electronically, and print slides and handouts. Key words: Microsoft, Microsoft 2007, PowerPoint More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Word 2003: Level 1 This course will familiarize you with the most common features and commands used while creating documents with Microsoft® Word 2003. Items covered will include opening, printi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Word 2007: Level 1 You can use Word to tackle any project involving text, such as correspondence, reports, and more. Word’s versatile formatting features allow you to enhance your text documents More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Microsoft® Word 2007: Level 2 You can use Word for any project involving text. Word’s versatile formatting features allow you to enhance your text documents with ease, and add additional elements such as t More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Motivating Employees This training session will focus on a variety of proven techniques for successfully motivating your employees to achieve company and department goals. Motivating employees is More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Motivating the Substance Affected Client for Change This course will address practical and evidence-based methods for assessing the client’s readiness to change and ways to assist the client in moving forward with healthy chang More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Motivational Enhancement Therapy: Motivational Interviewing Plus Normative Feedback – A Brief Intervention Brief interventions have been found to be effective in facilitating change in a number of health behaviors, especially in the areas of alcohol, tobacco and drug use. Settings More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Motivational Interviewing Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based practice, used in a wide variety of health care settings. These include substance use/abuse, mental health and physical health More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Multiple Personality, Part A This course is comprised of the following interviews: Dr. Bloch gives an overview on the topic, beginning with the early work of Freud and Breuer. He tells us that the gr More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Multiple Personality, Part B This course has the following interviews: Richard Loewenstein, M.D. "Treatment of M.P.D." - Dr. Loewenstein, Director of the Dissociative Disorders Program at Sheppard More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Multiple Personality, Part C This course has the following interviews: Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. "M.P.D. and Systems" discusses his work with M.P.D.s using a systems method in which all the various "m More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Naturalistic Weight-Reduction Efforts Prospectively Predict Growth in Relative Weight and Onset of Obesity Among Female Adolescents In the author’s words, ‘Initial self-labeled dieting, appetite suppressant/laxative use, incidental exercise, vomiting for weight-control purposes, and binge eating predicted More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Negotiation Skills v.2 Negotiation is something you use all the time in your work as well as in your personal life. You negotiate many issues with your employees, from raises to performance goals to More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Office Hazards v.2 This course is designed for general audiences. The goal of this course is to provide information that helps increase employee awareness and knowledge of common hazards and em More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Online Therapy, Clinical and Ethical Issues, Part A Is seeing a therapist online an oxymoron? Though the idea of "seeing" a therapist online doesn't make immediate sense, e-therapy is most definitely finding its market. In 2000 More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Online Therapy, Clinical and Ethical Issues, Part B Is seeing a therapist online an oxymoron? Though the idea of "seeing" a therapist online doesn't make immediate sense, e-therapy is most definitely finding its market. In 2000 More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Online Therapy, Clinical and Ethical Issues, Part C Is seeing a therapist online an oxymoron? Though the idea of "seeing" a therapist online doesn't make immediate sense, e-therapy is most definitely finding its market. In 2000 More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Online Therapy, Clinical and Ethical Issues, Part D Is seeing a therapist online an oxymoron? Though the idea of "seeing" a therapist online doesn't make immediate sense, e-therapy is most definitely finding its market. In 2000 More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | OSHA Basic First Aid v.3 This course presents key information; covering basic first aid procedures, including hazard awareness and emergency response. This course is designed for general audiences. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens v.3 This course presents key information; covering bloodborne pathogens, including protection, prevention, and reporting. This course is designed for general audiences, however, More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | OSHA Electrical Safety v.3 This course presents key information; covering electrical safety, including hazard awareness, protection, reporting, and safeguarding for the future. This course is designed More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | OSHA Fire Safety v.3 This course presents key information; covering fire safety, including hazard awareness, prevention, protection, and emergency response. This course is designed for general au More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | OSHA Office Ergonomics v.3 This course presents key information; covering office ergonomics, including medical disorders and awareness, workstation arrangement, environmental considerations, and medical More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | OSHA Right-to-Know This training is designed for those who work with hazardous chemicals. If there are hazardous chemicals in your workplace, you need to know about the material safety data she More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Our Culture’s Psychology as Victimology Martin P. Seligman was president of the American Psychological Association in 1998. During this time, he had a mission of focusing psychology and behavioral health away from i More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Pain Management Acute pain is adaptive and protective and usually abates with physical recovery. In comparison, chronic pain is defined by the persistence of pain beyond the usual healing ti More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Personal and Environmental Factors Associated With Physical Inactivity Among Different Racial-Ethnic Groups of U.S. Middle-Aged and Older-Aged Women This article reports on a study of physical inactivity among different racial-ethnic groups of middle-aged and older-aged women. Variables explored as potential contributors t More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Peter Breggin's Counterpoint Two articles by Peter Breggin, M.D. are presented here. The first, The Hazards of Treating "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder" with Methylphenidate (Ritalin), reviews t More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Physical Health, Lifestyle - Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep - in Mental Health Customers This course will explore the issues of health-related lifestyle and physical health in individuals with mental illnesses. Both physical illnesses and health-related lifestyle More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Prenatal cocaine exposure, ethnic identification and drug use, cocaine treatment, gender effects of AIDS Content in this newsletter covers effects of prenatal cocaine exposure, ethnic identification and drug use, cocaine abuse and treatment, gender effects on AIDS progression. More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey This article summarizes the results of a national survey on men's and women's experiences with violence. It provides data on the prevalence and incidence of rape, physical ass More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Proactive Intervention The chances of encountering agitated or aggressive behavior is becoming more and more commonplace in our personal lives, in our places of work, and throughout our society. The More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Progress Note Documentation: Anatomy of a Great DAP Note This training will examine clinical documentation and how to write an efficient and effective progress note in the DAP format. Resources and hints for writing a good DAP incl More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Project DARE: No Effects at 10-Year Follow-Up This article reports on a longitudinal study of the effects of Project DARE, followed by some brief discussion of the arguments attempting to counter the findings that might b More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Promoting Customer Service for Internal & External Customers This training session will focus on promoting customer service. If you and your employees don’t work directly with company customers, it may seem that this topic doesn’t appl More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Psychiatric Medications v.4 This program is an overview of psychiatric medications used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders and will cover categories of medication, therapeutic effects, side effect More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Psychologists and Family Law: What if the clothes have no emperor? In this article, Tana Dineen, Ph.D., an active advocate for a greater scientific base to psychologys (including all behavioral health practitioners) pronouncements about behav More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychology and the Internet This newsletter describes potential clinical issues that arise concurrent with various styles of Internet use and examines the importance of professional involvement with the More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychology and Work This series of articles covers a wide range of work-related issues, providing a brief look at some of the research findings and current trends or issues. Areas addressed inclu More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychosocial Factors in the Course and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder This course examines the effect of various psychosocial factors in treatment with persons with bipolar disorder. Presented in this course is an introductory article followed b More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychotherapy Volume IV, Part A This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of r More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychotherapy Volume IV, Part B This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of r More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychotherapy Volume IV, Part C This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of r More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychotherapy Volume IV, Part D This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of r More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychotherapy Volume IV, Part E This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of r More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Psychotherapy Volume IV, Part F This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of r More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part A This course has the following interviews: Sandra Nye, J.D., M.S.W., discusses the legal repercussions of any personal involvement with patients and/or their families. Mark More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part B Three of the four interviews on this tape were prompted by a survey that the Secret Service sent to a number of social workers in the country which asked them what they would More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part C This course has the following interviews: David Phillips, D.S.W., BCD, discusses how to differentially evaluate the same clinical situation from a number of theoretical models More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part D This course has the following interviews: Monica Oss, Ph.D., editor of Open Minds, a managed care newsletter, discusses managed care protocols-- which are the decision trees More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part E This course has the following interviews: Robert Taylor, M.A. presents a quick way to think about assessing alcoholism. Carolyn Saari, Ph.D., author of The Creation of Meanin More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part F This course has the following interviews: Arnold Levin, Ph.D., BCD, founder and President of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, in Chicago, discusses how providing psych More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 1, Part G This course has the following interviews: Joe Palombo, M.S.W., BCD, founder and Dean of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, discusses the role of theory for the practicin More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part A This course is has the following interviews: Joe Palombo, M.S.W., BCD, founder and Dean of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, discusses in-depth the underpinnings of a More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part B This course has the following interviews: Eda Goldstein, D.S.W., BCD, author of Borderline Disorders: A Clinician's Guide, discusses her work with Borderline Personalities an More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part C This course has the following interviews: Maria Corwin, Ph.D., BCD, gives an overview of the various theories and methods utilized in brief treatment, and the common elements More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part D This course has the following interviews: Russell Barkley, Ph.D., noted expert and author of many books on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, presents the diagnostic cr More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part E This course has the following interviews: Marlene Watson, Ph.D., discusses marital therapy with hard-to-treat couples. She explains how to break destructive patterns, how to More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part F This course has the following interviews: George Stricker, Ph.D., author of many psychological texts, describes his unique point of view on self disclosure -- its meaning to More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part G This course has the following interviews: Sandra Nye, J.D., M.S.W., tells us about managed care contracts and what to look for when signing on to provider lists. Stanley McC More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Psychotherapy, Volume 2, Part H This course has the following interview: Karla Clark, Ph.D. discusses, through process recording, her work with schizoid patients--what makes them schizoid developmentally, h More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 1, Differential Diagnosis PTSD is one of the very few psychiatric disorders that come under attack in almost every way: every assumption and theoretical underpinning is up for grabs. The criteria for More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 2, Malingering In 1994, the newer edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual issued a warning about the diagnosing of PTSD: “Malingering should be ruled out in those situations in whi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 3, The Culture of PTSD The understanding and treatment of posttraumatic stress has changed over the years, especially as between the 2 world wars, the Vietnam conflict, and the conflicts in Iraq an More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 4, The Brain, Trauma and Medication Posttraumatic stress disorder is characterized by symptoms that reflect some form of persistent reexperiencing of the original traumatic event. Possible symptoms of this reex More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 5, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Trauma outcome studies have consistently found the most effective PTSD treatments to be cognitive and exposure-based therapies that focus on emotional processing of the trauma More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 6, The Body Remembers The goal of Babette Rothschild is “to inspire psychotherapists working with traumatized individuals to learn as much as possible about theory, tools and treatment so that they More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 7, Engaging Survivors of Extreme Violence Engaging them in treatment requires the therapist’s being able to have and convey the capacity to understand and tolerate the awareness of terrible, unacceptable events in the More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 8, Resilience Dr Froma Walsh has developed core principles and values of a family and community resilience-oriented approach to recovery from traumatic loss when catastrophic events occur. More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | PTSD Part 9, Post Traumatic Growth Bill O’Hanlon presents alternative perspectives on the development of trauma-related disorders as well as powerful new methods for their successful resolution. His approach i More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Race, Ethnicity and Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending This article describes the racial distribution of serious and violent offending among juveniles in the US. It provides a picture of the short-term national trends for offendin More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury - Summary ACHPR Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 2 Advances in medical technology and improvements in regional trauma services have increased the number of survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI), producing the social conseq More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Responses to Nervous Breakdowns in America Over a 40-Year Period: Mental Health Policy Implications Comparisons of the results of national surveys conducted in 1957, 1976 and 1996 found that Americans tend to report experiencing impending nervous breakdowns more often over t More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | School Violence, Part A Who can explain the Littleton, Colorado and other tragedies in which children have been murdered by other children in their schools? And yet, as mental health professionals, p More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | School Violence, Part B Who can explain the Littleton, Colorado and other tragedies in which children have been murdered by other children in their schools? And yet, as mental health professionals, p More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | School Violence, Part C Who can explain the Littleton, Colorado and other tragedies in which children have been murdered by other children in their schools? And yet, as mental health professionals, p More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Screening for Pain in Behavioral Health This course presents the basic components of a meaningful pain screening process for clients seeking behavioral health care. Too often, screening for pain in behavioral health More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Sexual Harassment For Employees v.2 We are committed to maintaining a respectful and dignified workplace for all employees. Sexual harassment interferes with and needlessly undermines an otherwise respectful and More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Sexual Harassment for Managers v.2 Sexual harassment is a negative and costly problem for many organizations. During this second part, we will take a look at what isn’t sexual harassment. We will also learn abo More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Sexuality and Aging This course provides an overview of the sexual health needs of older adults. The goal is to provide a general understanding of healthy sexuality, while also identifying some More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Sexuality and the Dual-Earner Couple: Multiple Roles and Sexual Functioning This article reports on a study testing predictions about a couples sexual relationship based on older, scarcity models which assume that women with multiple roles as in dual- More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Sleep Patterns and Sleep Disruptions in School-Age Children This study assessed the sleep patterns, sleep disruptions, and sleepiness of school-age children. According to the authors, it is one of the first studies to use objective sle More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Social Science versus Social Movements: The Origins and Natural History of Debriefing "Data-driven objective assessments and systematic reviews of the empirical base of critical incident stress debriefing, especially as promulgated by founder, J.T. Mitchell, ar More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Solution Focused Brief Therapy The focus of this course will provide specific knowledge and skills required to provide brief solution-oriented interventions to address substance use and other related behavi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Somatic Experiencing and the Trauma Resiliency Model for PTSD and/or Trauma This course will introduce you to a somatic-based approach to treating individuals with PTSD and/or trauma-related symptoms – Somatic Experiencing and its condensed form, the More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Spirituality in Clinical Practice Part A The most hidden subject in therapy not sex, not money; its faith, religion, and spirituality! The spiritual direction of the therapy/counseling process is highly influence More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Spirituality in Clinical Practice Part B It's only recently in the history of humankind that healing was not done through some kind of spiritual or religious practice. Notions and images from the religious upbringing More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Spirituality in Clinical Practice Part C It's only recently in the history of humankind that healing was not done through some kind of spiritual or religious practice. Notions and images from the religious upbringing More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Spirituality in Clinical Practice Part D We continue looking how spirituality gets incorporated into traditional practice in Part D. Carolyn Jacobs, Ph.D. "Relational Approach " addresses the subject of the spiri More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Spirituality in Clinical Practice Part E Priscilla Murr, Ph.D., LPC "Jung and Dreams" - Central to Jung's approach to psychotherapy is the value and importance of the spiritual dimension of human existence. To bec More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Stages of Change Model This course presents an introductory look at Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change Model (aka Transtheoretical Model of Change). It briefly describes how people in the More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Stalking in America: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey This article in brief presents data from the first-ever national study on stalking and addresses these and related questions. Since the data show stalking to be much more prev More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Stress Management - On and Off the Job v.2 In this training session, we will discuss stress—what it is, how it affects you and the workplace, and what you can do to reduce it and to manage it on and off the job. In add More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Substance Abuse in the Workplace, What Supervisors Should Know It has been estimated that 1 in 10 employees in this country’s workforce has a substance abuse problem. The personal impact of substance abuse on an employee can be devastat More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Successful Aging In this newsletter, the work of various researchers on aging, memory and maintenance of vitality into old age is reported on. Information on exercises to train memory, daily s More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Suicide, Part A - Adolescent Suicide Any therapist involved in direct patient care has a 1 in 5 chance of losing a patient to suicide during the course of his or her professional career. Psychotherapists who stu More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Suicide, Part B - Elderly Suicide Dr. Osgood discusses ageism in our culture. She presents methods of assessing and identifying early signs of suicide in the elderly. More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Suicide, Part C - Manipulative Suicide Threats Distinguishing truly serious and dangerous suicidal intentions is a source of great concern for the therapist. Dr. Yufit suggests methods of detecting latent suicidal behavior More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Supervising the Aging Workforce This training session will focus on supervising an aging workforce. Over the next several years, the U.S. labor force is expected to continue to age, with the number of worke More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Supervising Young And Inexperienced Workers This training session will focus on supervising young and inexperienced workers. Supervising young and inexperienced employees is often different from supervising more mature, More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Symptom Self-Management for People with Schizophrenia The general goal of this course is to introduce you to symptom self-management, for people with schizophrenia and/or certain psychotic symptoms. You may be involved in helpi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Teens and steroids; Cocaine, marijuana and heroin abuse up; Pain relief; Long-term damage of methamphetamine Content in this newsletter covers anabolic steroid use patterns among teens, health risks associated with their use, epidemiological findings in substance use, action of opiat More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Telehealth Practice and Research This newsletter describes the benefits and risks associated with telehealth practice and research and describes legal and ethical issues arising from telehealth practice and r More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Telephone Counseling as an Adjunct to Antidepressant Treatment in the Primary Care System - A Pilot Study This article describes the process and the effectiveness of a brief cognitive-behavioral telephone counseling program used in the treatment of depressed patients in a primary More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | The (mis)use of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to Validate Child Sexual Abuse The articles contained in these Reports cover the following issues: the (mis)use of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder to validate child sexual abuse; group practice and managed ca More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | The Complex Issues in Researching From the author, “The present article reviews a range of issues including the nature of memory, the role of hypnosis in therapy to recover memories, the personality characteri More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | The Deficit Reduction Act - A Primer On February 8, 2006 the President signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA). This sweeping legislation affects many aspects of domestic entitlement programs, including bo More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | The Development of Concern for Others in Children With Behavior Problems The development of concern for others and externalizing problems were examined in young children with normative, subclinical, or clinical levels of behavior problems. In addit More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | The Development of Feeding Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood The current newsletter contains articles on the development of feeding disorders in infancy and early childhood, rationale for current prescribing practices with children and More... | |||
| Credits: 0 | The Devereux Early Childhood Initiative presents The Flip It Approach (1 of 5 in the Series) – Introduction, It starts with ICK The FLIP IT approach is brought to by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative or the DECI. The DECI has be More... | |||
| Credits: 0 | The Devereux Early Childhood Initiative presents The Flip It Approach (2 of 5 in the Series) – Feelings This course will address how to talk calmly with a child about his or her feelings and describe the behavio More... | |||
| Credits: 0 | The Devereux Early Childhood Initiative presents The Flip It Approach (3 of 5 in the Series) – Limits In this course, you will learn how to set loving limits that are based on simple, concrete rules and expectat More... | |||
| Credits: 0 | The Devereux Early Childhood Initiative presents The Flip It Approach (4 of 5 in the Series) – Inquiries During this course, you will learn how the Inquiries step asks children to think before they act by making si More... | |||
| Credits: 3.5 | The Devereux Early Childhood Initiative presents The Flip It Approach (5 of 5 in the Series) – Prompts The Prompts Step says that if the child is having difficulty finding a solution, provide prompts in the form More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | The Disease Management Movement and the Role of the Psychologist The articles contained in this Report cover the following issues: women who were sexually traumatized in the military; ethical issues of concern in child custody evaluations; More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | The Effect of Age on Positive and Negative Affect: A Developmental Perspective on Happiness In the author’s words, ‘The effect of age on happiness, as defined by positive and negative affect, was examined in a survey of persons in a broad age range (25-74) conducted More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | The Nature and Predictors of the Trajectory of Change in Marital Quality for Husbands and Wives Over the First 10 Years of Marriage This article reports on a ten year study about the patterns of change in the self-described view of marital quality provided by husbands and wives. Few studies have looked at More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | The Severity of Major Depression and Choice of Treatment in Primary Care Practice In the words of the authors, "The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Depression Guideline Panel recommended pharmacotherapy as the 1st-line treatment for more severely More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part A, Super Shrinks The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part B, The First Session The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part C, Attachment in Psychotherapy The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part D, Self Psychology and Neuroscience The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part E, Cultural Complexities The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part F, Crying in Psychotherapy The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part G, The Economy - to Reduce the Fee or Not The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part H, Self-Disclosure - A New Paradigm The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Therapeutic Relationship: Part I, Termination The therapeutic relationship is the heart of therapeutic practice. Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which the main cur More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Time Management v.2 This training session is designed to help you make better use of your valuable time. The session will focus on practical techniques and information that you can start using ri More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Todays Psychoanalysis Volume V Part A This series of tapes is a joint project with the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, in celebration of 100 years of psychoanalytic thought. Our goal is to share with the lis More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Todays Psychoanalysis Volume V Part B New Views of the Mind - Freud viewed the mind as if it were a physical body, with clear boundaries, interior spaces, and substances. Modern science now views the mind as an em More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Todays Psychoanalysis Volume V Part C New Views of the Therapeutic Relationship - Classical psychoanalysis holds that the therapist should be a blank screen; that the emotions evoked in the therapist by the patien More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Todays Psychoanalysis Volume V Part D New Views on Sexuality - Freud’s views of sexuality have provoked violent controversy for 100 years. Today’s gender and sexuality controversy Is between those whose views on t More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Todays Psychoanalysis Volume V Part E New Views of the Therapeutic Work - For Freud, cure came through remembering, rather than repeating. Contemporary psychoanalytic thought on the topic now centers on the rela More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Transcending the Efficacy Versus Effectiveness Research Debate This article provides an interesting discussion of the efficacy and effectiveness models for studying psychotherapy outcomes. Both models are based on a positivist philosophy, More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Treating Anxiety in Older Adults The program you are about to view provides an overview of the unique aspects of treating anxiety disorders in older adults. The course is designed to provide practitioners wit More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Treating Schizophrenia This article describes the striking results of a ten-year longitudinal study on the treatment of schizophrenia. Results found that 68% of the study participants, diagnosed wit More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Summary ACHPR Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 11 In 1997, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) charged the McMaster University Evidence-based Practice Center (MU-EPC) with producing an evidence report o More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Treatment Planning and Documentation v.1- Illinois version After completing this course, the student will be able to: Identify the six basic components of a treatment plan. Identify three ways that a treatment plan is considered int More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Trends in substance use, stress and addiction, antistress medications as drug treatment Content in this newsletter covers two major areas of information. First, trends from the Monitoring the Future survey for 1998 as well as from its inception in 1975 are report More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Two Studies of Gender and Reporting Differences with the Beck Depression Inventory This article provides a brief review of the literature on gender differences in the reporting of depression on psychological tests. The author then describes the results of tw More... | |||
| Credits: 3 | Understanding and Valuing Diversity The training will use mini-lecture, group exercise, dialogue, and discussion to facilitate a new awareness of the fundamental paradox of humanity: everyone is unique while be More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing Ones Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments In the author’s words, ‘People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occ More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life This article presents a theoretical perspective on the relationship between violent video games and aggressive behavior. The researchers then present the results of two studie More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Violence in the Workplace v.3 This course presents key information on workplace violence; broken into five areas, covering awareness, prevention, terrorism, response, and preparedness. This course is desi More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Weather Emergencies The purpose of this training session is to help us prepare for the occurrence of a weather emergency or other natural disaster. We will discuss the hazards and dangers assoc More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Wellness and You Good health is perhaps the most important thing in anybody’s life. Without your health, you can’t enjoy the rest of your life and meet the challenges you face every day. Today More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | When Interventions Harm: Peer Groups and Problem Behavior Longitudinal research reveals that "deviancy training" within adolescent friendships predicts increases in delinquency, substance use, violence, and adult maladjustment. Moreo More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Where Is the Child's Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development Socialization and personality development is at least as dependent on group participation during middle childhood and adolescence as it is on heredity, according to the author More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Woody Allen Incident and Therapy An uproar occurred when Woody Allen was discovered having a relationship with his "stepdaughter." Much of the discussion centered on two questions: Was this an incestuous rela More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Work-Related Psychological Trauma "The question of the effectiveness of psychological debriefing has stimulated considerable debate. Evidence is contradictory. While evidence for its effectiveness is apparent More... | |||
| Credits: 1.5 | Working with Clients Coexisting in the Child Welfare System This course was designed for addictions professionals in their work with clients coexisting in the child welfare system. This is an integral step towards the national drive fo More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Working with the Elderly, Part A Dr. Knight discusses methods of assessing older adults, how to complete a therapeutic life review, and how treatment of the older adult differs from that of younger adults in More... | |||
| Credits: 2 | Working with the Elderly, Part B n "Elderly Suicide," Dr. Osgood discusses ageism in our culture. She presents methods of assessing and identifying early signs of suicide in the elderly. In "Marital Treat More... | |||
| Credits: 1 | Workplace Ethics This course discusses workplace ethics. It is the policy of this organization to observe the highest standards of ethics, honesty, and integrity. All employees at all levels More... | |||