Trauma CE Courses for Psychologists

This course will identify best intervention practices to assist clinicians with how to properly navigate mothers who have experienced PPD and parental loss. In addition, it will identify implications for practice and recommendations when working with postnatal patients.

This intermediate course provides therapists with foundational knowledge and skills for opening up conversations about sex with children and adolescents. The course outlines sexual development in children and adolescents, discusses fundamentals of effective sex education with youth, and describes methods for ensuring that sex education is both trauma-informed and LGBT-inclusive. Ethical considerations and guidelines for clinical practice are discussed.

Our clients’ childhood environment shapes the foundation for their sense of self, how they feel about the world, and how they relate to others. If they experienced trauma or dysfunction along the way, it likely disrupted the pathways to these fundamental structures. Therefore, many of the reasons why clients come to see us have to do with their traumatic experiences, especially relational traumas. This webinar explores evidence-based techniques for working with survivors navigating the repercussions of family trauma.

This course focuses on educating clinicians on interventions for trauma informed care. This course briefly delves into empirically researched interventions to help trauma survivors achieve growth after trauma.

By the very nature of their flight from hardship, refugees experience high rates of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Recognizing the particular vulnerability of this population, it is imperative that clinicians are adequately prepared to provide ethical and culturally competent treatment using evidence-based interventions. This course will identify potential ethical concerns that may arise in treating this population, and further investigate strategies for mitigating these challenges, and it will further provide an overview of multicultural components for providing clinical support for immigrant, refugee, and asylee clients.

An introduction to human trafficking for professionals working in health care settings. Topics covered include important terminology, the different types of human trafficking, and the scope of the problem within the United States. How to recognize the signs and risk factors for trafficking and conducting trauma-informed screenings for victims is also reviewed.

Challenging behaviors in young children are often met with exclusion from settings considered essential for development. However, when correctly set up, community, school, and therapy environments can facilitate growth when employing supportive, evidence-based methods. This course explains the Pyramid Model, an approach promoting social-emotional skills acquisition to minimize problematic behaviors in children 18 months to 7 years old.

Understanding the intersection of Autism Spectrum Disorder and mental health is critical for mental health practitioners. This webinar explores therapy adaptations that further support clients engaging in mental health support and services.

Teen dating violence is prevalent and presents unique challenges for clinicians. This course provides background information on teen dating violence and a framework to assess and intervene with teens experiencing violence within their dating relationships.

This course explains why tinnitus can trigger a traumatic response and get the brain "locked in" to the sensation. It discusses the Tinnitus Trifecta that causes and maintains bothersome tinnitus, provides effective management tools (the Tinnitus Healing Triad) to help patients, and highlights the vital role of therapists in reducing tinnitus suffering.