Healthy Workspaces CE Courses for Psychologists

While improving and advocating for patients' emotional and physical well-being, healthcare workers frequently neglect their own. Specific symptoms of professional burnout, practical techniques for decreasing burnout, and helpful resources for healthcare providers are described in this course.

With average screen usage exceeding four hours daily in U.S. society, humanity's attachment to technology raises mental health concerns. This course explores the psychological drivers behind excessive technology engagement and equips professionals with strategies to help clients develop healthier tech habits. Empirical research, case studies, and clinical applications on technology overuse will be examined.

This course will discuss the different types of pain and the symptoms related to each category and include information on the challenges of treating pain in the context of substance use. Participants will learn the importance of managing patients' expectations in pain and learn strategies to create an individualized, multimodal pain management plan.

This course covers the psychology of personal organization - how being organized or disorganized impacts emotional states and mental health, the links between organization and conditions like depression, different organizational styles, and techniques to improve organization. It explores why organization matters from a psychological perspective, unlike organizational psychology which focuses on workplace dynamics. This course supports members to learn to evaluate their own organizational tendencies and develop skills to harness the benefits of an orderly environment which will ultimately support functioning in a behavioral health setting.

Understanding clients' and colleagues' personality differences allows behavioral health clinicians to deepen therapeutic alliances and workplace connections; this course will equip behavioral health clinicians to identify key personality profiles in themselves and others and adapt their communication approach accordingly to smooth interactions and conflict across contrasting dispositions; honing the skills to connect across diverse temperaments will enrich clinicians’ personal and professional relationships.

This course offers strategies to help clients and clinicians reframe negative thought patterns and cultivate optimism, empowering them to attract more positive outcomes and become authors of uplifting futures. By promoting constructive thinking and resilience, clinicians can gently challenge self-defeating pessimism while meeting clients where they are, helping to shift perspectives and unlock self-efficacy and agency.

Behavioral health clinicians provide mental health support and care to patients struggling with issues like depression, addiction, and trauma. Though these professionals care deeply about helping their patients, this emotionally demanding work can lead to fatigue, stress, and burnout over time. This course focuses on the critical need for behavioral health clinicians to understand strategies to optimize their own health, wellness, and work-life balance so they can continue providing quality mental health care without burning out.

This course has been created to meet the State of Florida compliance requirements for Medical Errors. In addition to including a study of root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety, this course explores areas within the behavioral health field that carry the potential for “medical” errors. This course will identify the importance of error reduction and prevention for behavioral health professionals, discuss how improving safety and quality influences care provided by licensed healthcare professionals and other high-risk industries, and support participants in recognizing the components of root-cause analysis used to investigate medical errors and patient safety events

The initial imprints of our earliest attachment and trauma wounds can manifest in our work and relationships as we help to heal the trauma wounds of others. In his seminal work, The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk notes that "scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening." This webinar is part one of a two-part series. This webinar gives specific attention to the unique ways that helpers will often gravitate toward the most familiar and recognizable aspects of their childhoods.

At times, communication can cause bumps in the road in any setting, especially when working on diverse and/or interdisciplinary teams. This course explores how to diffuse difficult conversations when there are many standpoints present and what to do to turn a difficult conversation into a positive experience. It will additionally explore how to repair a conversation when your intentions do not go as planned.