CE Courses for Social Workers

The course will offer an introductory lecture on the fundamental theories and philosophies underpinning Dialectical Behavior. With these principles as a foundation, the course will help participants generate theoretically coherent case conceptualization and improve the practice of DBT.

You practice social work and receive a subpoena to submit your client’s records and testify in upcoming court proceedings. This workshop prepares you for responding to a subpoena, balancing your client's needs, rights, and wishes with your legal and ethical obligations to the court and justice system.

EMDR Therapy is an evidence-based treatment option. This course explores EMDR Therapy and offers insight and education on the AIP model, theory, and components of EMDR therapy. In addition, this course will explore clinical implications. This course is designed for therapists who are not trained in EMDR Therapy.

This course explores behavioral health professionals' code of ethics including social workers, psychologists, counselors, and addiction counselors. It describes professional boundaries, what a dual relationship is, and what steps to take if a dual relationship has developed. It identifies appropriate boundaries within both professional relationships and patient-practitioner relationships.

Part one of this two-part series explored the impact of loss and grief on families. Part two provides participants with an overview of a variety of models and tools for intervening with families facing changes after a loss.

School personnel can find themselves challenged when responding to difficult student behavior and defaulting to a punitive and consequence-based approach, often leading to increased relational and behavioral challenges. This presentation encourages participants to view student behavior through a nervous system regulation lens. In addition, participants explore skills and strategies for responding to challenging student behavior through a trauma-responsive lens.

"Compassionate Endings" equips clinicians with essential clinical skills to sensitively address and navigate end-of-life concerns, fostering open dialogues and holistic support. This course empowers behavioral health professionals to provide empathetic guidance, ensuring dignified and compassionate experiences for clients and their families during this critical stage of life.

It is well documented that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse impact on the mental health of young people in high school and college, with increases in anxiety, depression, and executive function disorders. In particular, the class of 2024, those students who entered high school or college at the height of the pandemic and are now scheduled to graduate in 2024, may be the most affected. This course will review the environmental impact of the pandemic, and how it affected student life experiences, and disrupted these students emotionally and academically and will describe how to assess and intervene with this population.

Behavioral health clinicians are vital to effective emergency management. This webinar expands on the role of behavioral health clinicians in emergency management and explores challenges associated with emergency management and how behavioral health clinicians can best support emergency management initiatives.

Many of us work with clients who have bothersome tinnitus. In this podcast, we hear from a tinnitus expert, Dr. Jennifer Gans, on why the brain gets ‘locked-and-loaded’ on the tinnitus sensation (a benign body sensation), much like any trauma, and we explore ways to get ‘un-stuck.’ This is part of the Continued Learning Podcast series.