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Achieving Health Equity in Pain Management: What you need to know
Presented by Susan Holmes-Walker, PhD, RN
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Course: #2084Level: Intermediate1 Hour
This course explores ways to improve health equity for people who experience pain. This course explores how appropriate pain assessment and access to multimodal pain management tools can improve the quality of life for people in pain. Additionally, the course will address the intersection of substance use disorders and pain management, offering strategies to ensure effective care for this population.

Understanding and Managing Hope Fatigue: Practical Strategies for Behavioral Health Professionals
Presented by Taeler Hammond, MA
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Course: #2013Level: Intermediate1 Hour
In the fast-paced and emotionally demanding field of behavioral health, it’s easy to focus on supporting others while neglecting our own well-being. One silent, yet critical challenge that both professionals and clients face is hope fatigue—a state of emotional exhaustion that arises from persistent adversity and lack of progress. This interactive course dives deep into the emotional toll hope fatigue takes on your clients, how it disrupts the therapeutic relationship, and more importantly, the evidence-based techniques you can use to combat it.

Ethical and Practice Considerations for Working with Chronically Ill Clients
Presented by Destiny Davis, MS, LPC, CRC
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Course: #2069Level: Introductory1 Hour
This course equips mental health professionals with the skills to effectively support clients with chronic illness while maintaining clear professional and ethical boundaries. Participants will explore both evidence-based treatments (CBT, ACT) and emerging approaches (Somatic Experiencing, IFS) while examining the ethical considerations of working with medically complex clients. The course provides practical strategies for distinguishing between mental health support and medical guidance, ensuring clinicians practice within their scope of expertise. Additionally, participants will learn to implement collaborative care strategies with healthcare providers while upholding ethical standards, client autonomy, and best practices for integrated care.

Is it really empathy? Differentiating Empathy from emotional monitoring with Couples
Presented by Jenna Miles, LPC, LPC-S, PMH-C, NCC
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Course: #2062Level: Intermediate1 Hour
This course distinguishes between empathy and emotional monitoring. It examines instances of their differences and offers strategies to help clinicians guide couples in identifying each. Additionally, the effects of empathy and emotional monitoring on the communication patterns and satisfaction of couples are explored.

Personality Pathways to Substance Abuse: Understanding Traits, Risks, and Treatment
Presented by Benjamin Ampel, MA, PhD candidate
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Course: #2126Level: Introductory1 Hour
This course examines how the formation of personality traits like sensation seeking, BIS/BAS orientation, and hemispheric lateralization contributes to substance abuse. It explores the underlying causes of these traits and their influence on substance use patterns, as well as the challenges they pose for treatment and prognosis. Participants will gain insight into how personality development impacts the course of substance abuse disorders and the effectiveness of various treatment strategies.

Anticipating, Preparing, and Responding to School Crises
Presented by Stephanie Carnes, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LL.M
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Course: #2042Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Helping professionals in schools are increasingly tasked with possessing in-depth knowledge of clinical topics and having competence around school threats and crises, such as mental health emergencies, natural disasters, and violence. This course explores crisis response best practices and collaborative procedures. Additionally, participants will examine how this expanded role for helping professionals in schools and persistent concerns about safety in schools affects students and helps professional well-being.

The Role of the Self in Marriage and Family: Exploring Self-Verification Theory
Presented by Benjamin Ampel, MA, PhD candidate
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Course: #1833Level: Intermediate2 Hours
This course will delve into the role of the self in marriage and family therapy, with a focus on self-verification theory and its implications for working with married couples and families in a clinical setting. Participants will explore evidence-based strategies for understanding the self within the context of family dynamics. The course will also address how self-verification processes influence relationship dynamics and familial interactions, shedding light on effective therapeutic interventions.

Suicide Prevention for Health Professionals: Awareness and Screening
Presented by Ryan Kirk, PsyD, MSW, HSPP
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Course: #1948Level: Introductory1 Hour
This introductory course offers healthcare professionals essential knowledge and resources for suicide prevention. It includes an evidence-based overview of suicide epidemiology, focusing on at-risk groups, risk factors, and warning signs. Participants will explore key considerations for implementing suicide screenings and review current screening tools. The course also covers best practices for suicide-related terminology and provides a comprehensive list of additional resources. By the end of the course, participants will have the foundational information and tools to begin developing a suicide prevention program in their workplace.

The Power of Poetry to Enhance Therapeutic Efficacy: Creating and Conveying Meaning Through the Magic of Rhyming Words
Presented by Phillip Tietbohl, PhD, MEd, BS, LP
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Course: #1831Level: Intermediate2 Hours
Words have the power to improve the quality of life of those we work with and rhyming lines are particularly impactful. Discover the history and mystery of rhyme as a therapeutic tool and how sharing and creating poetry builds the therapeutic alliance and conveys understanding in long-lasting ways. This course will culminate with audience input to create a group poem for a sample of how rhymes produce meaningful messages and build cohesion and collaboration in the doing.

Exploring Healthy and Concerning Sexual Behaviors in Children
Presented by Kelli Underwood, MSW, LCSW
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Course: #1989Level: Intermediate2 Hours
This course addresses the evaluation of sexual behaviors in children under twelve, distinguishing between healthy and problematic behaviors. Participants will learn treatment strategies, safety planning, and effective collaboration with parents/caregivers through case-based discussions.

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