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VERY POPULAR, 6-CREDIT, CE COURSE -  Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management

Managing suicidal individuals is an urgent topic for all health care providers. Most people who kill themselves have a diagnosable mental and/or substance use disorder. The majority have depressive illness. This course discusses prevalence, risk factors, screening, assessment, treatment, and management of the suicidal individual. Use promo code ah20 and receive 20% discount, today.  

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1.  Gender dysphoria: ‘I’m a man, but…’
In public, Mr. C is a “he-man.” In private, he wears lingerie,sees himself as a woman in sexual fantasies,
and longs to develop breasts. Can you detect his problem?
CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE

2.  Transsexualism: Clinical Guide to Gender Identity Disorder
 For those with gender dysphoria, psycho-logical assessment and psychotherapy are suggested and sometimes required.
CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE

3.  Suppression of Puberty in Transgender Children
The treatment option for the pediatric population entails suppression of puberty using exogenous
hormones before the patient significantly develops the secondary sex characteristics of his or her
biological sex, but it is still experimental, and some practitioners question the ethics and safety of this
treatment strategy.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

4.  Answers to Your Questions About Transgender People, Gender Identity and Gender Expression
While transgender is generally a good term to use, not everyone whose appearance or behavior is
gender-nonconforming will identify as a transgender person.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

5. Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities
Transgender children who have socially transitioned, that is, who identify as the gender “opposite” their
natal sex and are supported to live openly as that gender, are increasingly visible in society, yet we know
nothing about their mental health.
PEDIATRICS

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6. Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People
The intended audience for these Guidelines includes psychologists who provide clinical care, conduct
research, or provide education or training.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

7. Office-Based Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth
Obtaining a comprehensive, confidential, developmentally appropriate adolescent psychosocial history
allows for the discovery of strengths and assets as well as risks.
PEDIATRICS

8. DSM-5: Gender Dysphoria
The diagnosis of gender dysphoria is a revision of DSM-IV’s criteria for gender identity disorder and is
intended to better characterize the experiences of affected children, adolescents, and adults.
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA)

9. Sexual Sunday School: The DSM and the Gatekeeping of Morality
Cultural values play a greater role in psychiatry than they do in the rest of medicine when it comes to
deciding what constitutes a “disorder.”
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

10. Working With Transgender Persons
Members of the transgender community commonly transcend society’s gender binary and widely
assumed definitions of gender roles and instead identify within a spectrum of gender expression.
PSYCHIATRIC TIMES

NEW 3-CREDIT, CE COURSE -  Ethics and Risk Management: Confidentiality in the Digital World

Privacy is a fundamental right, and it is the responsibility of all therapists to keep client information private. Today, psychotherapists must make thoughtful decisions about whether and to what extent they will incorporate electronic technology into their professional lives. To practice ethically, therapists who use digital and other technology must develop privacy and confidentiality protocols. Use promo code ah20 and receive 20% discount.  

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NEW FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS -  58 ESSENTIAL CLINICAL FORMS FOR YOUR PRACTICE

1.  Alzheimer's Disease Quiz
How much do you know about Alzheimer's?
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

2.  Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening
The USPSTF concludes that the evidence on screening for cognitive impairment is lacking and that the balance of benefits and harms cannot be determined.
U.S. PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE (USPSTF)

3.  Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists
The specific goal of this handbook is to review psychological assessment of six civil capacities of
particular importance to older adults, namely, medical consent capacity, sexual consent capacity, financial capacity, testamentary capacity, capacity to drive, and capacity to live independently.
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA) / AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

4.  Caregiver Care
Additional support and anticipatory guidance for the care recipient and caregiver are particularly helpful during care transitions and at the care recipient’s end of life.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

5. Minding the Aging Brain: Are We Ready for Personalized Medicine?
After cognitively normal older adults learn they have the ε4 allele of the APOE gene that increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, they perform worse on measures of subjective and objective cognition compared with older adults who have this genotype but do not know their genotype.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

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6. 2015 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death. Includes a Special Report on Disclosing
a Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION

7. Alzheimer's Disease
Scientists do not yet fully understand what causes Alzheimer’s disease. There probably is not one single cause, but several factors that affect each person differently.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

8. Evaluation of Suspected Dementia
Dementia and depression share many signs in older persons, including apathy, the inability to concentrate, societal withdrawal, and dramatic changes in mood and affect.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

9. Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Quality of Life for Individuals with Dementia
Individuals with cognitive impairment, their family members, and their care providers have all identified “quality of life” as a central goal in the treatment of dementia.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)

10. Who’s Responsible for Granny?
Most older people do not live in nursing homes or in assisted living facilities but in their own or their family members’ homes, where overwhelmingly they want to be.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

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NEW FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS -  60 ESSENTIAL CLINICAL FORMS FOR YOUR PRACTICE

1.  Violence and Mental Illness
Today, mental illness and violence are often seen as inextricably linked, creating a harsh stigma for
patients and an uncomfortable environment for clinicians.
PSYCHIATRY MMC

3.  Stay Safe in Practice
Because some clients turn violent, this article presents some suggestions to protect yourself.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

4.  Angry Words
Many people who are angry to isolate themselves from loved ones or others who are afraid of such
powerful emotions.
COUNSELING TODAY

5. Managing the Violent Patient: A Guide for Psychologists and Other Mental Health Professionals
Being threatened, harassed, attacked, or confronted by a patient with a weapon is becoming more
common and is likely to occur at some point in a mental health professional's career.
PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

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6. Mental Illness and Violence
Studies suggest that violence by people with mental illness stems from multiple overlapping factors
interacting in complex ways.
HARVARD MENTAL HEALTH LETTER

7. Violence Against Mental Health Professionals: When the Treater Becomes the Victim
This article examines the patient populations more likely to become violent and the mental healthcare
staff at the greatest risk of becoming their victims.
INNOVATIONS IN CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE

8. Patient Violence Against Health Care Professionals
Patients who feel they have been physically and/or psychologically injured are at increased risk for
committing violence against clinicians, especially if their complaints are dismissed.
PSYCHIATRIC TIMES

9. Take caution: Look for DISTURBED Behaviors When You Assess Violence Risk
The acronym DISTURBED can be a reminder about important patient-specific features that correlate
with violence.
CURRENT PSYCHIATRY

10. Psychiatric Violence Risk Assessment
Predicting human behavior, including violent behavior, is almost always difficult.
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA)

BRAND NEW & VERY INFORMATIVE CE COURSE!

Cultural Competence: The Immigrant Experience - 3 credits. Clinical practice currently faces a crisis of competence and conscience in the treatment of clients whose ethnicity, race, or class renders them minority groups in American society.

 NEW COURSES

• Assessing and Treating Sexual Problems in Psychotherapy - 5 credits
• Cultural Competence: The Immigrant Experience - 3 credits
• DSM-5 – Friend or Foe? - 6 credits
• DSM-5 and the ICD-10-CM: Comparisons and Crosswalk - 3 credits
• Ethics and Countertransference - 2 credits
• Ethics and Risk Management: The Challenge and Dilemma of Technology - 1 credit
• Ethics and Self-Disclosure: Adapting to New Technologies - 1 credit
• Ethics in Counseling: Staying on Track - 4 credits
• Internet Addiction and the DSM-5 - 2 credits
• Marriage and Family Therapy: Applications in Clinical Practice - 8 credits
• Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management - 6 credits
• Understanding the DSM-5 - 4 credits

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MOST POPULAR ETHICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT COURSES

1. Ethics and Risk Management: The Challenge and Dilemma of Technology  - 1 credit
2. Ethics and Risk Management: Social Media and the Internet - 2 credits
3. Ethics and Risk Management: E-mail Communication - Issues for Mental Health Counselors - 1 credit
4. Ethical Considerations in the Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk - 1 credit
5. Ethics and Self-Disclosure: Adapting to New Technologies - 1 credit
6. Ethics and Risk Management: Sexual Boundary Violations - 1 credit
7. Risk Management for Mental Health Professionals - 1 credit
8. Ethics: Informed Consent, Confidentiality, and Diagnosing - 1 credit
9. Ethics: Spiritual Issues in Clinical Practice - 3 credits
10. Risk Management Basics: The Application of Law and Ethics to Risk Management - 2 credits

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TECHNOLOGY-RELATED COURSES

• Ethics and Risk Management: The Challenge and Dilemma of Technology - 1 credit
• Ethics and Risk Management: E-mail Communication – Issues for Mental Health Counselors - 1 credit
• Ethics and Risk Management: Social Media and the Internet - 2 credits
• Ethics and Self-Disclosure: Adapting to New Technologies - 1 credit
• Internet Addiction and the DSM-5 - 2 credits

60 ESSENTIAL OFFICE FORMS - DESIGNED FOR PSYCHOTHERAPIST'S OFFICE!

Sixty (60), very popular, office tools used by thousands of therapists in private practice. Package includes, intake, treatment plans, consents, releases, marketing plan and much more... All the work is done and the clinical office forms are ready for you! Forms recently updated to conform with new DSM-5 to ICD-10.  

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