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Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management

As a mental health professional, you know that suicide is a major public health concern. Death by suicide claims more than 40,000 lives each year in the United States, out numbering deaths by homicide. This course sharpens your clinical skills and helps you prevent suicide by knowing the risk factors and routinely assessing the individuals you treat.

1.  Smartphone Addiction
Smartphone addiction, called “nomophobia” is the fear of being without a mobile phone. It is often fueled by an Internet overuse problem or Internet addiction disorder. It’s rarely the phone or tablet itself that creates the compulsion, but rather the games, apps, and online worlds it connects us to.
HELPGUIDE.ORG

2.  Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Smartphone Addiction
Due to increasing smartphone penetration, excessive smartphone use and even smartphone addiction, one form of technological addictions, have become substantial worldwide social issues.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

3. (Dis)Connected
At their worst, research finds smartphones can disrupt our sleep, stress us out and monopolize our attention. But psychology may hold the key to helping people take control of this technology to prevent such negative effects and even enhance our well-being. Tech developers aren't in the business of promoting well-being.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

4. Stress in America 2017: Technology and Social Media
Technology has improved life for many Americans, and nearly half of this country’s adults say they can’t imagine life without their smartphones. At the same time, numerous studies have described consequences of technology use, including negative impacts on physical and mental health.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

5. Patterns of Mobile Device Use by Caregivers and Children During Meals in Fast Food Restaurants
Mobile devices can distract parents from face-to-face interactions with their children, which are crucial for cognitive, language, and emotional development.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

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EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

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6. The Role of Compulsive Texting in Adolescents’ Academic Functioning
Adolescents’ texting far surpasses their use of any other modes of communication with others, including face-to-face interactions outside of school; they send and receive an average of 167 texts per day, with the median number of daily texts rising constantly.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

7. Mindfulness Coach
Mindfulness Coach was developed for people who experience emotional distress and for those wanting to maintain healthy coping practices. The app can be used on its own by those who would like mindfulness tools, or to augment face-to-face care with a health care professional.
NATIONAL CENTER FOR TELEHEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY

8. CBT-I Coach: A Description and Clinician Perceptions of a Mobile App for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
The purpose of this manuscript was to describe CBT-I Coach, a mobile app for patients undergoing CBT-I. Specific features of the app, such as automated sleep diary calculations, sleep education, tools to practice CBT-I skills, and reminders were included to promote adherence with completing sleep diaries, following the recommended time in bed, and potentially reducing treatment dropout and improving insomnia outcomes.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

9. Mobile App: PTSD Coach
Together with professional medical treatment, PTSD Coach provides reliable resources for clients. Clients, who think they might have PTSD, will benefit from this app. Family and friends, also, can also learn about PTSD by using this technology.
NATIONAL CENTER FOR PTSD

10.  Mental Health Smartphone Apps: Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Future Developments
Mental Health Smartphone Apps and other technology-based solutions have the potential to play an important part in the future of mental health care, making mental health support more accessible and reducing barriers to help seeking.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

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EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

1.  Leading Causes of Traumatic Brain Injury
This infographic highlights TBI facts. In the U.S., an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year.
BRAINLINE.ORG

2.  Predictors of Cognitive Function and Recovery 10 Years After Traumatic Brain Injury in Young Children
The purpose of this study was to plot recovery of cognitive and functional skills after early childhood TBI to 10 years post-injury and to identify the contribution of injury, environment, pre-injury characteristics, and acute functional recovery.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

3. Mind-Body Therapies for Headache
Mind-body therapies such as biofeedback, cognitive behavior therapy, hypnosis, meditation, and relaxation training can affect neural substrates and have been shown to be effective treatments for various types of headache.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

4. You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much
How old does someone have to be to be sentenced to death? When should someone get to vote?
Can an 18-year-old give informed consent?
NEW YORK TIMES - SCIENCE

5. Academic Effects of Concussion in Children and Adolescents
This study provides initial evidence of a concussion’s effects on academic learning and performance across all grades, including student and parent report of the nature and extent of school concerns and range of post-injury problems.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

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 ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

What are the common ethical errors for therapists?

This practical CE course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

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6. Traumatic Brain Injury In the United States: Epidemiology and Rehabilitation
A TBI can adversely affect a person’s quality of life in numerous ways, including cognitive, behavioral/emotional, and physical effects that affect interpersonal, social and occupational
functioning.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

7. When Brain Meets Body
In the past few decades, however, Western medicine has once again begun to acknowledge that the body and mind don’t just coexist, they intermingle and affect each other in ways that researchers are only beginning to understand.
COUNSELING TODAY

8. Understanding Addiction: How Addiction Hijacks the Brain
Addiction exerts a long and powerful influence on the brain that manifests in three distinct ways: craving for the object of addiction, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement with it despite adverse consequences.
HELPGUIDE.ORG

9. Brain Anatomy
This site contains very practical brain images for clinicians. Review the brain's composition of 3 main structural divisions: the cerebrum, the brainstem, and the cerebellum.
MEDSCAPE (Free Registration)

10.  Confirmed: ADHD Brain Is Different
The structure of the brain of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) differs from that of normally developing children ― a difference that is clearly visible on MRI. This suggests that ADHD should be considered a neurologic disorder, researchers say.
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EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

1.  My Son Was a Columbine Shooter. This Is My Story - Sue Klebold
Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher. She's spent years excavating every detail of her family life, trying to understand what she could have done to prevent her son's violence. In this difficult, jarring talk, Klebold explores the intersection between mental health and violence, advocating for parents and professionals to continue to examine the link between suicidal and homicidal thinking.
TED - November 2016 - 76,904 Views

2.   Could a Drug Prevent Depression and PTSD? - Rebecca Brachman
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment that may prevent mental disorders like depression and PTSD from ever developing. And listen for an unexpected — and controversial — twist.
TED - September 2016 - 714,553 Views

3. Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health - Mariano Sigman
Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. "We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health," Sigman says, "based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say."
TED - February 2016 - 2,039,993 Views

4. How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed - Daniel Levitin
You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."
TED - September 2015 - 2,039,993 Views

5. You Can Grow New Brain Cells. Here's How - Sandrine Thuret
Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis—improving mood, increasing memory formation and preventing the decline associated with aging along the way.
TED - June 2015 - 3,727,619 Views

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 ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

What are the common ethical errors for therapists?

This practical CE course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

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6. How I Learned to Communicate My Inner Life with Asperger's - Alix Generous
Alix Generous is a young woman with a million and one ideas — she's done award-winning science, helped develop new technology and tells a darn good joke (you'll see). She has Asperger's, a form of autistic spectrum disorder that can impair the basic social skills required for communication, and she's worked hard for years to learn how to share her thoughts with the world. In this funny, personal talk, she shares her story — and her vision for tools to help more people communicate their big ideas.
TED - June 2015 - 1,486,308 Views

7. The Bridge Between Suicide and Life - Kevin Briggs
For many years Sergeant Kevin Briggs had a dark, unusual, at times strangely rewarding job: He patrolled the southern end of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a popular site for suicide attempts. In a sobering, deeply personal talk Briggs shares stories from those he’s spoken — and listened — to standing on the edge of life. He gives a powerful piece of advice to those with loved ones who might be contemplating suicide.
TED - March 2014 - 2,349,150 Views

8. Toward a New Understanding of Mental Illness - Thomas Insel
Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders."
TED - January 2013 - 1,112,270 Views

9. To This Day ... for the Bullied and Beautiful - Shane Koyczan
By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and … different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators). Here, he gives a glorious, live reprise with backstory and violin accompaniment by Hannah Epperson.
TED - February 2013 - 4,845,357 Views

10.  A Tale of Mental Illness — from the Inside - Elyn Saks
"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.
TED - June 2012 - 3,027,238 Views

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EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

1.  The State of Mental Health in America 2017
Rankings explore which states are more effective at addressing issues related to mental health and substance use.
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA

2.   The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline
Being overweight can raise your blood pressure, cholesterol and risk for developing diabetes. It could be bad for your brain, too.
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

3. Loneliness Can Be Deadly for Elders; Friends Are the Antidote
The circle shrinks. As the years pass, older people attend too many funerals. Friendships that sustained them for decades lapse when companions and confidants retire or move away or grow ill.
NEW YORK TIMES

4. An Addiction Crisis Along ‘The Backbone of America’
The citizens of these communities are often falling victim to drugs, drink and suicide — the so-called diseases of despair.
WASHINGTON POST

5. Where Does Alzheimer's Treatment Go From Here?
"The next frontier is recognizing that there probably isn't a one-size-fits-all approach, and that using targeted therapies based on a person's own biology and genetics will bring the most benefit. The future of Alzheimer's therapeutics is in precision medicine."
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

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 ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

What are the common ethical errors for therapists?

This practical CE course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

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6. Carrie Fisher Helped Me Understand My Mental Illness and Addiction
Fisher was an indelible, often painfully self-deprecating figure who lent an honest lens into the silent battles of drug addiction and mental illness, making it easier for many of us to face down our own demons and seek appropriate help.
JEZEBEL

7. Marijuana Use and Schizophrenia: New Evidence Suggests Link
Studies show that cannabis use is more common among people with psychosis than in the general population, and that it may also increase the risk of psychotic symptoms.
MEDICAL NEWS TODAY

8. Adding Better Mental Health Care to Primary Care
Integrating a “Collaborative Care” approach is one proven way primary care providers can enhance the quality and effectiveness of their behavioral health treatment.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

9. Airplane Pilot Mental Health and Suicidal Thoughts
Hundreds of pilots currently flying are managing depressive symptoms perhaps without the possibility of  treatment due to the fear of negative career impacts.
BIOMED CENTRAL

10. Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities
Socially transitioned transgender children who are supported in their gender identity have developmentally normative levels of depression and only minimal elevations in anxiety, suggesting that psychopathology is not inevitable within this group.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

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EMDR Therapy: Treating OCD and Related Disorders

POPULAR, 5 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

Edited by a leading EMDR scholar and practitioner, the course content delivers step-by-step protocols that enable practitioners
to enhance their expertise more quickly when treating clients or groups of clients with these conditions. For each topic, the authors
include relevant questions for history taking, helpful resources and explanations, frequently used negative and positive cognitions,
and information on case conceptualization and treatment planning.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

1.  DSM5 - Personality Disorder: Diagnostic Criteria
Personality disorders are associated with ways of thinking and feeling about oneself and others that
significantly and adversely affect how an individual functions in many aspects of life.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

2.   Personality Disorders: Review and Clinical Application in Daily Practice
Personality disorders have been documented in approximately 9 percent of the general U.S. population. Psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and brief interventions designed for use by family physicians can improve the health of patients with these disorders.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

3. Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Diagnostic and Clinical Challenges
Narcissistic personality disorder is prevalent, highly comorbid with other disorders, and associated with significant functional impairment and psychosocial disability.
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA)

4. Borderline Personality Disorder
Some people with BPD also have high rates of co-occurring mental disorders, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders, along with substance abuse, self-harm, suicidal thinking and behaviors, and suicide.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)

5. Psychotherapy for Suicidal Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
This article reviews established literature on approaches to the psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder with specific reference to suicide in order to determine if there were common factors across these efforts that would guide future teaching, practice and research.
BIOMEDCENTRAL (BMC)

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 ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

What are the common ethical errors for therapists?

This practical CE course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

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6. Narcissism and the Use of Personal Pronouns Revisited
Excessive self-focus is thought to form the core of narcissism, an important psychological phenomenon with broad interpersonal consequences.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

7. Facing a Rising Tide of Personality Disorders
Prevailing wisdom gives the apparent surge in personality disorders a generational genesis — a seeming groundswell of millennials disproportionately beset by narcissistic, histrionic and borderline tendencies.
COUNSELING TODAY

8. Therapeutic Factors in Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Some patients require intermittent care during the entire course of their lives, much as patients with chronic serious physical disorders do.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS

9. In The Realm of Personality Disorders
Social workers are reluctant to identify personality disorders, because of a common belief that the disorders are untreatable. 
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER

10. Long-Term Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
The currently favored treatment methods showed in a large percentage of patients, a lessening of these self-destructive behaviors after a year or two of treatment.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS

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ONLINE TWO (2) CREDIT, VIDEO CE COURSE
DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM: Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorder is the first of the new “spectrum disorders” in the DSM-5, and in this on-demand video program, Dr. Greg Neimeyer addresses this new category of disorders and crosswalks them over to the ICD-10-CM, as well. Video illustrations and applications highlight key diagnostic features and considerations.

This program 2-hour, on-demand video CE course is designated as intermediate to advanced.

1.  Autism Spectrum Disorder - DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria
Full-text of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the related diagnosis of social communication disorder (SCD).
AUTISM SPEAKS

2.   Autism Spectrum Disorder - Facts and Statistics
Prevalence in the United States is estimated at 1 in 68 births. More than 3.5 million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder.
AUTISM SOCIETY

3. Mothers and Autism: The Evolution of a Discourse of Blame
Today’s “autism mom” is supposed to be a child-saving hero, expected and encouraged to do anything and everything in pursuit of normalcy, from special diets to special schools, from medications to therapeutic toys.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

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 IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS!

The Network of Care for Veterans, Service Members & Their Families is a highly interactive, locally based web portal that is used by service members; military families, veterans, and those who support them to quickly access a wide variety of important information relating to local, state and national social services.

The program, developed by Trilogy Integrated Resources, is provided in partnership with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors; the National Association of County Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Directors; Mental Health America, and many others. It was developed in cooperation with the National Association of Counties.

Trilogy Integrated Resources is a California-based Internet company that focuses on providing access to high-quality information and community-based programs in the health and human services arena.

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4. Autonomy and Autism: Who Speaks for the Adolescent Patient?
The ultimate goal should be to recognize the patient's impairment but maximize his autonomy, helping her/him to develop as much maturity and independence as she/he is capable of.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

5. What are the Early Signs of Autism?
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may show developmental differences when they are babies—especially their social and language skills.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

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6. Understanding Thimerosal, Mercury, and Vaccine Safety
No reputable scientific studies have found an association between thimerosal in vaccines and autism.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

7. Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism
Some people have had concerns that ASD might be linked to the vaccines children receive, but studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing ASD.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

8. Early Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Under 3 Years of Age
With the growing evidence that ASD can be diagnosed accurately before 2 years of age, the need for ASD treatment programs specifically designed for this age group has never been greater.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

9. Addressing Challenging Behaviors for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
“Challenging behaviors” is a broad term generally used to refer to any behavior that is a barrier to an individual achieving a specific outcome or goal.
COUNSELING TODAY

10. Evidence-Based Comprehensive Treatments for Early Autism
The evidence suggests that early intervention programs are indeed beneficial for children with autism, often improving developmental functioning and decreasing maladaptive behaviors and symptom severity at the level of group analysis.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)

ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

WHAT ARE THE COMMON ETHICAL ERRORS FOR THERAPISTS?

This practical course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

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ETHICS IN COUNSELING: STAYING ON TRACK - 4 Credit CE

WHAT ARE THE COMMON ETHICAL ERRORS FOR THERAPISTS?

This practical course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence. The authors discuss how to avoid many ethical errors in mental health work, including those related to technology in the therapeutic relationship. The content of this CE program is adapted from the text, Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations, by Springer Publishing Company.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
2. Identify and apply ethical standards in therapy
3. Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
4. Recognize what kinds of information should be included in client records
5. Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
   

   Earn valuable, practical ethics credits today!

   Register now and earn 4 CE credits, today!

1.  Is Stress Getting to You?
Do psychologists practice what they preach when it comes to dealing with stress? Not necessarily.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA)

2.  Are You Burning Out?
Measure your burnout score...
SOCIAL WORK - BUFFALO UNIVERSITY

3. Mental Health Workers Don't Recognize Their Own Burnout
Some mental health workers find it difficult to recognize their own burnout and even when they do they struggle to admit it to others.
SCIENCE DAILY

4. Healing Thyself
What barriers do psychologists face when considering personal psychotherapy and how can they be overcome?
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

5. Burnout and the Brain
Using cutting-edge techniques, integrative research teams are demonstrating that burnout is not just a state of mind, but a condition that leaves its mark on the brain as well as the body.
ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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6. What Supershrinks Can Teach Us
People matter to us. We want to make a difference. We’re dedicated to helping people overcome the problems that bring them to treatment, to make it possible for them to enjoy healthier, happier, more productive lives.
PSYCHOTHERAPY NETWORKER

7. Relationship Between Burnout and Depressive Symptoms
When using the person-centered approach, burnout and depressive symptoms seem to cluster together and develop in parallel.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW

8. From Burning Bright to Simply Burned Out
Counselor burnout. With increasing caseloads, managed care headaches, mounting paperwork and the ever-present stress of listening to other people’s tales of despair all day before going home to play with the kids at night, it is an issue that many in the counseling profession take very seriously.
COUNSELING TODAY

9. What I Wish I Had Known: Burnout and Self-Care in Our Social Work Profession
A frequent statement heard from a therapist who treasured his clinical work, teaching, and writing was: “They feel better, but I surely do not.”
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER

10. Clinicians’ Perceptions of How Burnout Affects Their Work
Clinicians reported specific ways that burnout affects work, including empathy, communication, therapeutic alliance, and consumer engagement.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

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