Mental Health CE Courses for Psychologists

This course provides foundational knowledge of DSM-V Sexual Dysfunction diagnoses, including DSM-V criteria, etiology, and assessment. The course encourages critical thinking about diagnostic criteria and describes current research on each diagnosis. Finally, the course provides some foundational therapy techniques for addressing sexual dysfunctions with clients, including identifying when referrals to medical providers or other specialists would be appropriate.

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder may commonly experience anxiety, depression, and/or a host of other mental health conditions. Due to the complexity and co-morbidity often associated with autism spectrum disorder, cognitive-behavioral therapy may be an effective therapeutic modality for some individuals with autism. This webinar explores cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques and strategies to consider when working with people with autism.

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.

This course empowers behavioral health clinicians with the necessary skills and ethical competencies for delivering integrated, evidence-based addiction care to patients undergoing medication-assisted treatment (MAT). A focus on confidentiality, MAT and general ethics including HIPAA and CFR 42, and supervision standards are addressed. Participants will explore substance use disorders from a neuroscience perspective, develop counseling best practices within interdisciplinary MAT settings, and cover topics ranging from harm reduction strategies to documentation of medical necessity, aiming to enhance support for individuals managing addiction and dual diagnoses.

Gender-affirming care including hormones and surgery are evidence-based treatments that reduce gender dysphoria in transgender and gender non-conforming people, but many face barriers accessing this care. Clinicians need training on appropriately diagnosing gender dysphoria, assessing readiness for hormones per WPATH guidelines, and managing comorbid psychiatric conditions. This course provides comprehensive information and practice guidelines for providing gender-affirming hormone therapy to transgender adults.

This course highlights the need for an increasing focus on evidence-based practices (EBPs) in psychological treatment, emphasizing their effectiveness and empirical basis. It also addresses the need to adapt EBPs for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients to ensure ethical and effective care, identifying adapted EBPs and their application to common issues faced by TGD individuals.

Psychological Considerations when Treating People with Serious Mental Illness in an Inpatient Setting is presented by Deanna Metropoulos, Psy.D. This course provides a one-hour overview of considerations necessary for behavioral health clinicians when working in an inpatient facility. Specifically, it will focus on working with individuals with serious mental illness. This course reviews empirically supported treatments and assessment practices within an inpatient setting.

This course will explore the repressive coping style. Specifically, this course will contextualize repressive coping in an emotional regulation framework, and then explore how repressors present in clinical settings, how well repressors cope with severe trauma and loss, and how they respond to clinical settings. A special emphasis will be placed on how repressors cope with bereavement and other emotional trauma.

Effective clinical practice with LGBT populations requires a basic understanding of LGBT concepts and terms, presenting problems, and evidence-based interventions. This workshop describes the fundamentals for assessment and therapy with LGBT patients through a discussion of best practices, language use guidelines, and ethical considerations. The workshop explores the concepts of sex, sexuality, and gender and defines common terms used to describe LGBT identities. Health disparities, co-occurring mental health problems, and presenting clinical concerns among LGBT populations are explored through the lens of Minority Stress Theory. Finally, ethical considerations for confidentiality, informed consent, and evidence-based therapy practice are discussed.

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.