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Credit hours :
8
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Note: This course requires the purchase of the book: Addiction and Grace - by Gerald G. May, M.D.
The course/text looks at the processes of attachment that frequently result in addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. It considers addiction as a broader issue that involves a range of behaviors far beyond alcohol and drugs to include work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert complete control over ones life.
He asserts that addiction is a separate and even more self-defeating force than repression. “Addictions abuses freedom and makes people do things they really do not want to do. While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These objects of attachment then become preoccupations and obsessions; they come to rule our lives. Attachment "nails" our desire to specific objects and creates addiction.”
According to the author this explains why traditional psychotherapy, which is based on the release of repression, has proven ineffective with addictions.” The clinician will find in this course/text a compassionate and wise treatment of a topic of major concern to all in the people helping professions. The course offers a critical yet hopeful look at the issue and guides the reader to view a freedom based on contemplative spirituality.
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Credit hours :
4
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This CEU for MFT's and LCSW's offers information about PTSD / CPSD / Adjunctive treatment rational for the treatment of PTSD and Addictions. Because co-morbidity rates are between 60% and 80% with both disorders, PTSD and Addictions, clinical information about treatment is key. This course is an on-line CEU which can easily be taken during your leisure time, at home course, or in the office course. This CEU for PTSD and addictions is the first offered by asrtherapy.com. More to come. For $50 you will receive a pre-and post- test to prove your competency in the areas covered. The course primarily describes PTSD and addiction treatment definitions and options. ADJUNCTIVE THERAPIES, AFFECTIVE and STATE REGULATORY SKILLS are described. Click on the PayPal link above, take the course and receive your certificate on-line. For refunds, if you are dissatisfied with this course, you may receive a full refund, but must request this refund within two weeks of receiving the file. After you have taken the test and received your certificate, refunds are not available. Thank You
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Credit hours :
3
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Ethics concerns how we make moral decisions. Nowhere is this decision making process more important than when a mental health professional faces an ethical dilemma. An ethical dilemma occurs when we are forced to choose between two different actions, and choosing one action will mean that another good is sacrificed. The following material provides a proper understanding of ethical theory and the nature of the ethical dilemma. This understanding helps us communicate with others, and respond appropriately when faced with an ethical dilemma. Numerous case studies and examples are provided.
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Credit hours :
10
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Note: This course requires the purchase of the book: Authentic Happiness - by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D
The course, Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman equips clinicians with the tools to develop nurturing sets of strengths, competencies, and virtues in people; such as future-mindedness, hope, interpersonal skills, courage,the capacity for 'flow,' faith, and developing a work ethic.
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Credit hours :
12
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Note: A book must be purchased as part of this course: Boundaries - by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Boundaries is the seminal text on getting one’s life under control. Evidence of this book striking a common human chord is confirmed by sales of more than 700,000 copies and the spawning of specific issue volumes such as Boundaries in Marriage, Boundaries with Kids and Boundaries in Dating.
Cloud and Townsend compare boundaries in a person’s life to personal property lines that define the responsibilities and non-responsibilities of each person. They point out each person’s boundaries define who they are and, just as importantly, who they are not. The authors encourage the development of healthy boundaries to develop a healthy lifestyle.
While Cloud and Townsend address theoretical issues in Boundaries, it is predominantly practical, replete with helpful anecdotes of everyday life. They provide multiple examples of how boundaries are developed and maintained or sabotaged. Realistic vignettes are presented for typical boundary issues with marriage, families, friends, parenting, work, self and God.
Cloud and Townsend have used a Christian world view in navigating a psychological issue mental health practitioners must address with clients everyday. This book will assist the clinician with his or her own life and it will help them treat others.
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Credit hours :
6
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This online course builds on the work of leading experts, including Jeffery Mitchell, Ph.D., developing a unique approach to crisis debriefing with groups of trauma survivors. William Worden, Ph.D.'s "five life management skills" are applied to expand and clarify crisis debriefing techniques. Mental health professionals gain a practical and effective method for working with individuals or groups of trauma survivors.
Topics include: the purpose of crisis debriefing, the difference between counseling and crisis debriefing and the six phases of crisis, as experienced by the trauma survivor. Special issues are explored, including suicide events, murder, dealing with personality disorders in group, and simple versus complex PTSD. Controversies in the field of crisis debriefing are noted. Finally, the necessary components of crisis debriefing are presented, along with guidelines. Throughout this course the author shares his experience as a crisis debriefer and presents realistic case studies. The author of this online course is James A. Fogarty, Ed.D.
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Credit hours :
3
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This course helps mental health professionals become more aware of the ethical dimensions of practice. Counselors and therapists deal with ethical questions in their daily lives on a regular basis, even if they don't always stop to think intentionally about choices as ethical decision-makers. Professionals working with clients who are often fragile and vulnerable must cultivate a keen awareness of ethical issues. First, a basic outline of ethical theory is presented which explores principles that guide ethical thinking. Learning to recognize an ethical dilemma and utilizing a simple process to sort out choices are central to the ethical decision making process. There are abundant examples, case studies, and scenarios to help illustrate the principles in concrete ways. There is in-depth consideration of mental health advance directives, which are becoming increasingly available as more states create legislation providing for patients to indicate their wishes concerning treatment. There is, as well, consideration of ethical dimensions of therapy conducted via the internet. This course offers practical and useful ways to become more intentional about ethical awareness so the mental health professional can become more comfortable recognizing ethical dimensions of practice, and choosing their best moral response. K. B. writes: "Thanks for the intermittent questioning and the wealth of information provided here. I will come back for future course & definitely recommend your courses to others!" K. M. writes: "The course was very informative and I enjoyed being able to do it in the convenience of my own home. Plus, no having to dress up or pay for lunch!"
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Credit hours :
4
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This online course makes a complex subject relatively easy to understand. Ethical issues concerning boundaries and dual relationships are among the most complex and difficult for the mental health professional. Other than explicit prohibitions concerning sexual contact with clients, many of the boundary situations which arise are not easy to assess ethically. What constitutes a boundary violation in one situation may be ethically acceptable in a similar situation.
The course guides mental health professionals in sorting through boundary crossings, boundary violations, and dual relationships in order to discern what constitutes not only the highest standards for ethical behavior, but the highest standards for practice. Ethical theory and principles are included, with particular attention to virtue ethics. Many case studies and realistic scenarios are presented.
F.F. Writes: "The material was beautifully organized and written. Concise, informative, articulate..."
J.E. Writes: "I am really enjoying these courses. Thank you. "
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Credit hours :
9
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Note: a book must be purchased as part of this course: Learned Optimism - by Martin Seligman, PhD.
Copy this link to Amazon into your browser to purchase book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671019112/genesiscontin-20
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Martin Seligman, PhD, shows how to chart a new approach to living with “flexible optimism”. Dr. Seligman outlines in this text the easy to follow techniques that have helped thousands of people rise above the pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts and build a life of rewards and lasting happiness.
Learned Optimism shows one how to:
• Recognize a persons “explanatory style”, what to say to yourself when you experience setbacks, and how it influences your life
• How clients can boost their moods and their immune systems, with healthful thoughts
• Help children and adolescents practice the thought patterns that encourage optimism
• Break the “I give up” habit with Dr. Seligman’s ABC techniques
• Change interior dialogue and experience the positive results
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Credit hours :
6
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The book is not included. It must be purchased separately. We have supplied a link to Amazon.com for your convenience.
Rabbi Kushner explores the difficulties of affirming faith in the midst of life’s tragedies. His views embrace helpful insights to the process of grieving. Clinicians will find his questions resonating with the issues underlining all loss, as well as the question of God in the light of pain and personal loss. Kushner tackles the difficult question of reconciling the existence of a loving God and the existence of pain. The course will help the clinician think through the issues of how God is perceived in the times of loss. Rabbi Kushner’s book gives pathways to help clients of all faiths find meaning and purpose in the midst of loss without ignoring the hard questions.
Book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380603926/genesiscontin-20
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