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Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV
This course helps you screen for, respond to, document, and manage your patients who are suffering from abusive relationships. Includes up to 17 patient cases in 5 different specialties.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Screen patients for intimate partner violence (IPV) and appropriately respond to disclosures of abuse.
- Recognize patterns of abuse and properly document IPV.
- Assess the safety of IPV victims.
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Introduction to Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) and Minority Health Disparities
This course helps you incorporate into practice the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards of the USDHHS Office of Minority Health.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Describe the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards of the USDHHS Office of Minority Health and how they impact the ethical responsibilities of medical service providers.
- Defi... |
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Professionalism: Communicating with the Health Care Team
This course proposes practical definitions of professionalism and identifies patterns of questionable professional behavior. It shows how to improve professional behavior and communication among different members of the health care team with a focus on power differentials, generational differences, and how these interactions directly connect to patient care.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Communicate effectively ... |
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Autism Movement Therapy
Autism Movement Therapy® is an emerging therapy that combines movement and music with positive behavior support strategies to assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in meeting and achieving their speech and language, social and academic goals. Its purpose is to connect left and right hemisphere brain functioning by combining patterning, visual movement calculation, audile receptive processing, rhythm and sequencing into a “whole brain” cognitive thinking approach that can ... |
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How Temperamental Differences Affect Young Children
Temperament plays a significant role in a child’s development, experience, relationships, and behaviors. Children often need supportive intervention to allow them to function in healthy ways and reach their potential. This video course will include a discussion of normal early childhood development and the range of normal functioning as it is impacted by temperament. The purpose of this course is to help participants understand the role that temperament plays in the trajectory of normal chil... |
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Delivering Culturally Competent Care: Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Diverse Populations
This course presents practical advice for working cross-culturally. It allows participants to practice and improve their communication skills while managing typical clinical problems encountered in persons with type 2 diabetes.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Recognize the differences between the terms "race," "ethnicity," and "culture."
- Employ the Ask, Share, Compare, Negotiate Model with patients in the office... |
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Accident or Injury? Managing Abuse in Younger Children
This course teaches how to recognize and evaluate cases of suspected child physical abuse and child sexual abuse in young children.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Perform appropriate medical evaluations for suspected abuse, including:
- Obtaining an accurate history.
- Performing a comprehensive physical exam.
- Differentiating between accidental and non-accidental injury.
- Documenting your assessment accurat... |
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Biology of Aging: Research Today for a Healthier Tomorrow
What is aging? Can we live long and live well—and are they the same thing? Is aging in our genes? How does our metabolism relate to aging? Can your immune system still defend you as you age? Since the National Institute on Aging was established in 1974, scientists asking just such questions have learned a great deal about the processes associated with the biology of aging. Technology today supports research that years ago would have seemed possible only in a science fiction novel. This cours... |
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Helping Your Young Client Persevere in the Face of Learning Differences
Clinicians and teachers working with students struggling at grade level are committed to raising their students’ achievement potential by creating opportunities to learn. In order to accomplish this, they need to learn new techniques that can help encourage discouraged students – particularly those who have different ways of learning – by supporting and motivating them without enabling self-defeating habits. This course will provide new strategies and techniques for helping students mini... |
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The Use of Humor in Therapy
Should therapists and counselors use humor as a therapeutic technique? If so, should they be formally trained in those procedures before their implementation? This course will review the risks and benefits of using humor in therapy and the relevant historical controversies of this proposal. The paucity of rigorous empirical research on the effectiveness of this form of clinical intervention is exceeded only by the absence of any training for those practitioners interested in applying humor tec... |
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Improving Cultural Competence in Substance Abuse Treatment
Culture is a primary force in the creation of a person’s identity. Counselors who are culturally competent are better able to understand and respect their clients’ identities and related cultural ways of life. This course proposes strategies to engage clients of diverse racial and ethnic groups (who can have very different life experiences, values, and traditions) in treatment. The major racial and ethnic groups in the United States covered in this course are African Americans, Asian Ameri... |
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Ethics & Risk Management: Expert Tips VII
This course addresses a variety of ethics and risk management topics in the form of 22 archived articles from The National Psychologist and is intended for psychotherapists of all specialties. Topics include: mismatch resolution; malpractice insurance; ethical prohibition; documentation, lawyers and common sense; hot topics in psychological practice; self-care; forensic psychology; ethics with feeling; telepsychology risks; patient access to records; divorce counseling; ethics, psychology and ... |
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Caffeine and Health
Caffeine is a rapidly absorbed organic compound that acts as a stimulant in the human body. The average amount of caffeine consumed in the US is approximately 300 mg per person per day - the equivalent to between two and four cups of coffee - with coffee accounting for about three-fourths of the caffeine that is consumed in the American diet. This is considered to be a moderate caffeine intake, which, according to many studies, can promote a variety of health benefits.
But some studies clai... |
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Therapy Tidbits - March/April 2016
This course is comprised of select articles from the March/April 2016 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent bi-monthly newspaper intended to keep psychologists (and other mental health professionals) informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are: Depression Screenings Urged During and After Pregnancy, ACA Constantly Changing, Social Media and Ethics: Self-Reflection in Context of Technology, RxP Battle May Not Be Worth the Cost, Psychologists Mus... |
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Therapy Tidbits May/June 2016
This course is comprised of select articles from the May/June 2016 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent bi-monthly newspaper intended to keep psychologists (and other mental health professionals) informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are:
CMS Wrongfully Denying PQRS Incentives
Psychology Lags in Helping Impaired Colleagues
Disclosures for Forensic Evaluations
Reimbursement Diagnoses May Be Co-Morbid
Crossing the Mental Health Court Ch... |
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When Your Young Client is Defiant
When Your Young Client is Defiant is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that provides practical strategies for managing challenging and defiant behavior in young clients.
Adults are often at a loss when it comes to handling defiance and power struggles. Some lecture the child on disrespectful behavior. Others ignore it, hoping it will go away. All parents find it a frustrating and annoying part of the parenting experience (the same may be said for many clinicians). For cli... |
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The Nursing Home Resident: A Holistic Approach
The Nursing Home Resident: A Holistic Approach is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that thoughtfully examines the many considerations in providing care for older adults.
As our population ages we need to create the appropriate environment in our long-term care facilities addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of each resident. Mental health professionals frequently provide treatment for nursing home residents and information for their famili... |
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Improving Social Skills in Children & Adolescents
Improving Social Skills in Children & Adolescents is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that provides healthcare professionals with practical tools to guide children in gaining social competence.
Highlighting the benefits and advantages to having well-developed social skills and demonstrating the difficulties and challenges that arise from a lack of these crucial skills, this course will provide practical tools that teachers and therapists can employ to guide children to o... |