ADHD: Assessment of ADHD in Adulthood
This course discusses the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in adults.
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ADHD: Diagnosis and Treatment
ADHD is one of the most common psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence. This course provides relevant information on diagnosis and treatment.
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ADHD: Diagnostic Criteria and Evaluation
This course reviews the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for ADHD. The author presents procedures for conducting an ADHD evaluation.
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ADHD: Strength-Based Mental Health Counseling for Children with ADHD
The hyperactivity and impulsivity experienced by children who are diagnosed with ADHD can pose challenges for families, teachers, and mental health counselors. The authors present an integrative model of Adlerian play therapy and adventure-based counseling (ABC) that extends beyond traditional talk therapy, fosters a strength-based perspective, and
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Adolescent Girls: Development and Treatment Issues
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, interviews Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD, about the differences in male and female development in early adolescence, the kinds of pressure adolescent girls experience from their parents, and ways of helping girls discover their value. In the second interview Lynda Chassler, PhD, discusses the relationship of attachment pa
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Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment
Dr. Howard Liddle, a nationally recognized family psychologist and Director of the University of Miami Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Substance Abuse, discusses recent developments in adolescent substance abuse treatment. Topics include evidence-based treatments, trends in adolescent drug use, how to establish a therapeutic alliance wi
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Adolescents: Treating Difficult Adolescents
Two experts discuss how to work with difficult adolescents using solution-focused brief therapy and methods for treating aggressive adolescents. You can read the text of these interviews and/or access the audio to the interviews via your computer's MP3 player.
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Adult-Acquired Traumatic Brain Injury: Existential Implications and Clinical Considerations
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause irreparable harm to individuals and have profound effects on families and communities. In addition to the physical and neurological effects, brain injury creates an intense boundary experience that forces clients to confront the existential givens of freedom, death, isolation, and meaninglessness. This program
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Adventure Therapy for Troubled Youth
This course provides an overview of adventure therapy; an interview with Michael A. Gass, PhD, Professor and Coordinator of the Outdoor Education Program at the University of New Hampshire; discussion of the adventure therapy process; and information on choosing a wilderness therapy program.
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Credits: 2
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$16.00
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Aging and Long Term Care: Older Adults and Mental Health
This program reviews normal developmental milestones of aging and highlights the adaptive capacities that enable many older people to change, cope with loss, and pursue productive and fulfilling activities. The program provides a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in older people, including various risk factors and psychosocia
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Credits: 3
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Alcohol Problems in Intimate Relationships: Identification and Intervention
This guide helps therapists and other health care professionals identify and treat individuals (or families) who currently are experiencing alcohol problems. The guide includes screening and assessment tools, brief intervention strategies, and treatment alternatives for longer term care.
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Credits: 6
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$75.00
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Anger Management
Brad Barris, PhD, discusses treatment for anger management. He describes his theories of the causes of anger and presents Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) as a model for treatment.
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Anger Management in Trauma Therapy
The treatment of anger in people exposed to trauma presents special challenges to therapists. This program discusses the importance of anger in trauma therapy, treatment resistance, precautions for personal safety, the stress inoculation approach to anger treatment, how to avoid hindering the client's ability to express or resolve anger, and recomm
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Animal Abuse and Youth Violence
This course describes psychiatric, psychological, and criminal research linking animal abuse to violence perpetrated by juveniles and adults. Particular attention is focused on the prevalence of cruelty to animals by children and adolescents and to the role of animal abuse as a symptom of conduct disorder.
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Anxiety Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment
This course discusses the types of anxiety disorders, prevalence, etiology, risk factors, and treatment in adults and children.
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Anxiety in Patients with Cancer
This program presents an overview of anxiety in cancer patients and provides the description and etiology of adjustment disorder, panic disorder, phobias, OCD, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and anxiety disorder. The course addresses treatment issues and post-treatment considerations.
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Assessing Suicide Risk in Children: Guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Interviewing
This program reviews risk factors for childhood suicide and suicidal behavior, provides a commentary on current methods of assessing suicide risk in children, and discusses guidelines for conducting developmentally appropriate risk assessments with children and suggestions for consulting with caregivers.
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Attachment Issues in Foster Children
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, who discusses the ramifications of grief and loss in children in foster care.
Dr. Webb is the author of 12 books and over 40 articles. Her book, Helping Bereaved Children, grew directly out of her early acclaimed book, Pla
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Attachment-Oriented Psychotherapy
Dr. David Wallin translates attachment theory and research into a framework that integrates key attachment principles with psychopathology, neuroscience, relational and intersubjective psychotherapeutic approaches, mentalization, and mindfulness. You can read the text of this interview and/or access the audio to the interview via your compute
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Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism and Asperger’s Disorder are two of the five pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (fourth edition). These disorders, more commonly referred to today as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), are chara
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Bad Boys: Sexual Addiction or Entitlement?
Sharon O-Hara, LMFT, C-SAT, explains the difference between the outrageous sexual behavior of some noted powerful politicians and celebrities and the desperate behavior and treatment of sexual addicts, whose brains are hijacked by the intensity of their own fantasies.
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BDD: A Narrative Approach to Body Dysmorphic Disorder
This course discusses treatment issues related to body dysmorphic disorder and describes the application of narrative therapy to work with individuals diagnosed with this disorder. A case example is included.
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Bereavement among African Americans and Latino/a Americans
Mourning is the term for the culturally-informed practices through which grief is expressed. Although grief is a universal human experience, mourning varies greatly by culture and ethnic group. This material examines bereavement and mourning in African American and Latino/a American groups, discusses broader cultural issues related to assessment
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Bipolar Disorder and Alcoholism
This program explores the relationship between the bipolar disorder and alcoholism.
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Bipolar: A Review of Evidence-Based Therapeutic Interventions for Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a complex disability that presents substantial challenges for diagnosis and treatment. A growing body of literature indicates that psychotherapeutic interventions benefit bipolar clients and have the potential to significantly improve their psychosocial functioning and decrease the substantial social costs of the illness. This p
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Three experts discuss various aspects of diagnosing and treating borderline personality disorder. Topics include brief treatment with borderline patients, borderline marriages, and the use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to treat borderline personality disorder.
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Brief CBT in the Treatment of Substance Abuse
This program examines behavioral and cognitive therapies and focuses specifically on the cognitive-behavioral model. The material discusses how to help clients recognize situations in which they are likely to use, find ways of avoiding those situations, and cope more effectively with situations, feelings, and behaviors related to their substance ab
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Brief Strategic / Interactional Therapies in the Treatment of Substance Abuse
Brief interventions and therapies, including solution-focused brief therapy, have become increasingly important modalities in the treatment of substance abuse. This program provides a discussion of the general theories that provide the basis for strategic / interactional therapies, information on when to use brief therapy with substance abuse clien
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Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse
Topics include theoretical concepts of brief strategic family therapy, creating therapeutic relationships with families, diagnosing family system problems, orchestrating change, and how to engage resistant families.
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Case Management: Confronting Difficult Issues and Addressing Anger
Case managers are often called upon to confront difficult issues when working with clients, collaterals, and colleagues. The author provides tools to help the case manager explore differences and resolve possible conflicts, and she also offers strategies for disarming and managing anger.
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Case Management: The Mental Status Examination
Although a formal mental status examination (MSE) would be done by a physician or psychologist, case managers should be prepared to conduct an informal MSE in wh
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Child Custody: Assessment of Family Custody Issues Using Mental Health
This course provides (a) a description of custody-related mental health evaluations, (b) ethical considerations involved in the evaluation process, (c) recommendations for conducting mental health evaluations, and (d) a format for the written report.
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Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders
This course reviews diagnostic criteria for a wide variety of anxiety disorders in children and teens and describes the use of cognitive behavioral techniques for this population. The material includes interviews with Rachel Klein, PhD, and Cynthia Last, PhD.
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Childhood Sexuality: Discerning Healthy from Abnormal Sexual Behaviors
This course discusses normal and abnormal childhood sexual behaviors and examines factors that therapists should be aware of as contributing to children’s problematic sexual attitudes and behavior.
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Chronic Pain: Biological Understanding and Treatment
The authors discuss biopsychosocial factors related to chronic pain as a necessary foundation for understanding and helping clients who are in pain. They review familiar evidence-based counseling approaches including assessment considerations, use of psychotropic medications, cognitive-behavior
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Clinical Excellence: Interview with Scott Miller, PhD
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Scott Miller, PhD, who talks about how “super shrinks” achieve superior performance. Dr. Miller outlines steps that therapists can take to determine their level of performance, develop a plan of deliberate practice to improve outcomes, set specific target behavior
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Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents
This course reviews the history and diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder and describes correlates and risk factors for CD. The author discusses subtypes of conduct disorder, comorbid disorders, differential diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of this disorder.
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Counseling Older Adults
Three experts discuss various aspects of counseling with older adults. Topics include how to complete a therapeutic life review, differences in the treatment of older adults from that of younger adults, marital conflicts in older couples, and methods of identifying early signs of elderly suicide.
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Credits: 3
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Couples Therapy: Recreating Partnership - A Solution-Oriented Collaborative Approach
Veteran therapists Phillip Ziegler and Tobey Hiller provide a pragmatic approach to couples therapy that is solution-oriented, collaborative, and strength-based with the couple at the center of the process.
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Crying in Psychotherapy
Few people encounter tears in a professional setting as often as psychotherapists, counselors, and others in the field of mental health. Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Judith Nelson, PhD, on the role of crying in psychotherapy.
You can read the text of this interview and/or access the audio to the inter
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Cultural Competence: Cultural Complexities
To work effectively with people of diverse identities, health care providers must learn to deal with difference and conflict in ways that empower patients and encourage mutual respect for one another. Pamela Hays, PhD, discusses the importance of cultural competence in the therapeutic relationship and provides a paradigm for identifying cultural bi
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Depression in Adults, Adolescents, and Children
This course addresses the diagnosis and treatment of depression in adults, children, and teens with an emphasis on the treatment of depression in victims of crime and trauma. Variables such as co-morbid disorders, preexisting conditions, and exposure to trauma are discussed.
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders
This course gives an overview of personality disorders and provides a more detailed discussion of borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, and passive-aggressive personality disorders. Topics include diagnostic criteria, assessment, engagement, crisis stabilization, treatment, continuum of care, and alcohol and drug use among people with personality d
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, one of the most serious and chronic mental illnesses, is likely to begin in adolescence, although it can both extend into and first appear in later life. This course discusses diagnosis, course and recovery, etiology, and interventions and includes a section on psychoeducational treatment models for families with an
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Differential Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder from Bipolar Disorder
The purpose of this article is to update counselors on the expansion of bipolar disorder in the psychiatric literature, present evidence for the validity of borderline personality disorder, discuss strategies for the differential diagnosis of it from bipolar disorder, review proposed changes in DSM-V, and integrate the literature in
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Domestic Violence and PTSD
The material outlines issues related to domestic violence confronted by clinicians working with traumatized populations, particularly combat veterans, and focuses on increasing the mental health providers' understanding of the risks related to intimate partner violence, including strategies for assessing for IPV with their clients.
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Domestic Violence: Counseling Clients Involved with Violent Intimate Partners
This program provides information about how to assess for intimate partner violence, explores safety-related ethical issues that arise when counseling clients in IPV relationships, and explains the use of safety plans as a tool for promoting the safety of clients in IPV relationships. The material includes additional information on safety planning.
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Domestic Violence: Intimate Partner Abuse
Mental health professionals and other health care providers regularly counsel clients who are in intimate relationships with partners who are violent. Topics include understanding the dynamics of abuse, screening, assessment, and intervention strategies, barriers to leaving an abusive relationship, cultural issues, and safety planning.
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Credits: 7
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Dream Interpretation: A Developmental Counseling and Therapy Approach
In counseling sessions, clients often present dreams as material to use in making meaning of their experiences. This course provides a brief review of historical perspectives on dreams and dream interpretation and provides a foundation for examining dreams as an integral part of counseling practice.
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Engaging Children and Families: The Helping Relationship
In case management and child welfare practice, successful intervention and treatment depend heavily on the quality of the caseworker's relationship with the children and family. This program describes core elements of the helping relationship, provides techniques for building rapport, and includes strategies for engaging children and families
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychotherapy
Four experts discuss such topics as how to reason out clinical and ethical dilemmas using the principle of the best interest of the client as the primary principle, self-disclosure in the therapeutic relationship, personal involvement with patients and/or their families, and boundary violations.
You can read the text of these interviews and/or a
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment
This course discusses five principles of ethical decision-making in mental health practice and provides a step-by-step model for resolving ethical dilemmas. The course also explores specific ethical and legal issues as they relate to substance abuse treatment and the treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS. Topics include duty to treat, duty to warn, d
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Ethical and Legal Issues: Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect
Helene Snyder, JD, discusses the specific legal duties that are imposed on mental health professionals regarding the reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect. She also discusses proper record keeping procedures. A course addendum provides references to federal and state statutes throughout the US.
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Ethical Boundaries and Custody Evaluations
Brandt Caudill, JD, LMSW, an attorney who has co-authored two books on legal/ethical issues for mental health professionals, discusses the problem of boundaries in custody evaluations, a major source of ethical complaints.
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Ethical Issues with Fees, Billing, and Collections
Barton Bernstein, JD, LMSW, an attorney and social worker who has written two books on legal/ethical issues for mental health professionals, discusses his positions on fees, billing, and collections. The material includes a sample intake form.
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Ethics and Risk Management: E-mail Communication - Issues for Mental Health Counselors
The authors discuss both the positive use of electronic communication and the need to address fundamental counseling issues that arise in using it. The article examines the AMHCA and AC
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Ethics: Confidentiality
Frederic Reamer, PhD, discusses ethical guidelines pertaining to privacy and confidentiality and recommends specific actions for therapists to take to protect clients from disclosure and therapists from potential licensing board complaints or malpractice lawsuits. Dr. Reamer also offers clinicians a series of steps to take when they face an ethical
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Ethics: Money and the Therapeutic Relationship
Kathleen Murphy, PhD, presents principles of ethical decision-making in setting fees and billing for psychological services, and Robert Galatzer-Levy, MD, discusses the psychological meaning of money in the therapeutic relationship, including the difficulty that therapists have in talking to patients about money. These interviews are text-based.
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Ethics: Nine Ethical Values of Master Therapists
Making the best ethical decisions can be challenging given the multitude of complex ethical situations that arise in practice. This program examines the ethical values that ten master therapists draw upon in their work.
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Ethics: Receiving Gifts from Clients - Ethical and Therapeutic Issues
The author discusses the extent and nature of client gift-giving in counseling, ethical and therapeutic issues, a scheme for categorizing and assessing gift-giving behavior, and general suggestions for handling these incidents.
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Ethics: Spiritual Issues in Clinical Practice
There are a number of ethical questions that arise out of the incorporation of spirituality into a clinical practice. This program is a series of four interviews that focus on such questions as informed consent, self disclosure, practice competence and training, documentation, dual relationships, boundary violations, client self determination, undu
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Ethics: Termination of Psychotherapy
In this interview, Denise Davis, PhD, identifies five types of terminations and discusses how clinicians can end therapy responsibly, even when conditions are challenging. She discusses how to handle pitfalls in the process and presents a number of essential steps for negotiating a clinically and ethically sound termination. You can read the text o
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Family Counseling: Family Involvement, Assessment, Closure, and Ethical Issues in Family Work
This program is for therapists who want to improve their ability to manage family issues. Topics include identifying the need for family involvement; assessing family issues related to the presenting problem; closure issues with families; and ethical issues in family work.
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Credits: 7
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Focus on Child Sexual Abuse
This course includes an interview with Eliana Gil, PhD, Director of the Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy, which provides comprehensive clinical training programs on the assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect; guidelines for understanding ‘normal’ sexual behavior in children; and a profile of The Greenwich
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Interview with Julie Poehlmann, PhD
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Julie Poehlmann, PhD, who focuses on the phenomenon of grandparents raising grandchildren from an attachment perspective. Dr. Poehlmann discusses her research, which suggests bi-directional links between grandparent depression and children’s behavior problems. She
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Grief: Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Interview with Colin Pereira-Webber, MA
Colin Pereira-Webber, MA, talks about how the death of a parent and the subsequent mourning and grief process shape developing children and adolescents.
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Habit Disorders in Children
This course provides an overview of the treatment of habit disorders in children and an interview with Raymond G. Miltenberger, PhD, author of Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures
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Helping Children Cope with Death
This course discusses the emotional stages of grief and includes an interview with Helen Fitzgerald, CDE, author of The Grieving Child, and a profile of the Dougy Center for Grieving Children. It also provides material about parent and sibling loss and the loss of a child.
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History and Principles of Wraparound Services
The wraparound process is a collaborative, team-based approach to service and support planning. This program gives a brief history of the development of the wraparound process and describes ten principles that guide wraparound services for children, youth, and families. Source: National Wrapar
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In-Home Treatment of Reactive Attachment Disorder in a Therapeutic Foster Care System
This program discusses the characteristics of reactive attachment disorder as well as diagnostic criteria and possible etiology. The material includes a case example of an adolescent diagnosed with RAD as an illustration of treatment from an in-home perspective.
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Interviewing Children
The author describes children’s developmental stages and age-appropriate interviewing techniques that can be used in child custody evaluations. These strategies can also be used by child welfare workers when assessing a child’s safety and well-being.
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Introduction to Case Management
This course provides a brief history of case management and discusses case management functions, principles, competencies, and models.
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Issues in Foster Care: Overview of Attachment Theory
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Fran Stott, PhD, who provides an overview of attachment theory. Attachment theory posits that children instinctively attach to caretakers in order to achieve security and survival.
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Key Elements in Couples Therapy with Veterans
Because of the adverse effects of PTSD on relationships, couples therapy can be a powerful adjunct treatment; however, few receive this service. A new framework for conceptualizing couples therapy organizes treatment around the 3 PTSD symptom clusters (re-experiencing, avoidance, and arousal). The authors summarize the relationship consequences of
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Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
This program describes the task-based approach to life-threatening illness, anticipatory grief, the stages of grief, and general aspects of grief therapy. The course also includes sections on children and grief and cross-cultural responses to grief and mourning.
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Motivation and Treatment Interventions
This program describes the process of moving an individual from assessment and diagnosis into treatment intervention. The course offers techniques for motivational interviewing and provides empirical support for various types of substance abuse treatment interventions.
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Motivational Enhancement Therapy and CBT for Adolescent Marijuana Users
This course is designed to address the problem of marijuana use by adolescents. The program provides instruction on how to conduct a brief, five-session treatment intervention for teens with cannabis use disorders in an outpatient setting.
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Credits: 7
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Motivational Interviewing as a Counseling Style
The material provides five basic principles of motivational interviewing that address ambivalence and facilitate the change process. The course offers opening strategies to use with clients in the early stages of treatment and concludes with a summary of research on the effectiveness of motivational interviewing.
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Multiculturalism and Cultural Competence
This program discusses the influence of culture in the delivery of health and human services. Participants will be able to identify the components of cultural competency and will learn techniques for working effectively across cultures. Topics include practice in a multi-cultural environment, elements of cultural competence, diversity and ethics, d
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Multiple Dimensions of Culture in the Treatment of Adolescents and Their Families
This program discusses the meaning of cultural values and treatment issues, including the neglected dimension of the cultural background of the therapist. The course illustrates the application of the multidimensional cultural approach in the case of a rebellious Mexican-American teenager.
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Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Motivational Interviewing: Enhancing Readiness for Change
The authors discuss motivational interviewing and the transtheoretical model of change as a conceptual framework for counseling clients who engage in non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. The major principles of motivational interviewing are applied in a case study of a client who self-injures.
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Normal Adjustment, Psychosocial Distress, and the Adjustment Disorders in Cancer Patients
Most mental health care providers will be called upon at some point to work with cancer patients or family members who are dealing with the multitude of emotional and medical issues associated with the diagnosis and treatment of this life-threatening illness. This program focuses on normal adjustment issues, psychosocial distress, and the adjustmen
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OCD: The Secret Childhood Epidemic
This course discusses the treatment of OCD in children and adolescents. The program includes an interview with John March, MD, PhD, co-author of OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Manual and Talking Back to OCD. The material also describes the treatment of OCD at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at th
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ODD: Understanding and Treating the Oppositional/Defiant Child
This course discusses the assessment of ODD and provides an interview with John Mordock, PhD, author of Counseling the Defiant Child: A Basic Guide to Helping Troubled and Aggressive Youth, and a profile of a model treatment program.
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Pain Management
This course provides interviews with two pain management experts. Randall Busch, MD, describes some of the new techniques that are used to treat chronic pain, and Kenneth Sharoff, PHD, outlines a cognitive coping skills approach to pain management.
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Pathological Gambling and Alcohol Use Disorder
This program explores the association between pathological gambling and alcohol use disorders (AUDs).
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Pathological Gambling: Assessment and Treatment
This course discusses prevalence of pathological gambling, diagnostic criteria, screening and assessment, treatment, and gambling and substance use. The program includes case examples.
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Privacy of Victims' Counseling Communications
Crime victims who fear that their personal information may be revealed in court proceedings are often reluctant to participate in crime investigations. This program provides an overview of state laws and issues related to the privacy of communications between crime victims and their counselors.
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Psychosocial Issues for Older Adults in Disasters
The guide looks at aging as a developmental stage, describes attributes that can make older persons vulnerable to the effects of disasters, and explains how disaster mental health services differ from those in "normal" times. The material includes a section on disaster counseling skills.
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Psychotherapeutic Medications 2008: What Every Counselor Should Know
Patients who are in combined treatment see a pharmacotherapist for their medication therapy and a psychotherapist for their talk therapy. This material provides a quick "desk reference" on psychotherapeutic medications for substance abuse and mental health treatment providers. The following topics are included for each medication type: Generic name
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Psychotherapy with Traumatized Foster Children: Interview with Cynthia Monahon, PsyD
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Cynthia Monahon, PsyD, a licensed clinical psychologist and founding Director of the Children's Clinic of the Cutchins Program in Northampton, MA, where she also consults in priva
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PTSD #1: Differential Diagnosis - Interview with Hugh F. Johnston, MD
Hugh Johnston, MD, discusses some of the controversies associated with PTSD and reviews diagnostic and treatment issues as discussed in the DSM-IV-TR, including the difference between acute stress disorder and PTSD. You can read the text of this interview and/or access the audio to the interview via your computer's MP3 player.
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PTSD #2: Malingering - Interview with Gerald Rosen, PhD
Gerald Rosen, PhD, answers questions about the challenges clinicians face in determining malingering and how to assess for it.
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PTSD #3: The Culture of PTSD - Interview with James Herbert, PhD
James Herbert, PhD, describes various aspects of the culture of PTSD and its influence on diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Herbert also discusses how clinicians can encourage resilience.
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PTSD #4: Trauma, the Brain, and Medication - Interview with Anthony D'Agostino, MD
PTSD is characterized by symptoms that reflect some form of persistent re-experiencing of the original traumatic event. Anthony M. D’Agostino, MD, discusses the impact of trauma and stress on the brain and explains the use of neurological findings and medication to treat adults and children with PTSD.
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PTSD #5: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment - Interview with Steven Taylor, PhD
Cognitive Behavior Therapies (CBT) are currently the most empirically supported treatments for individuals who experience persistent symptoms following a traumatic event. Steven Taylor, PhD, describes CBT and its use in the treatment of PTSD.
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PTSD #6: The Body Remembers - Interview with Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW
Babette Rothschild, LCSW, author of The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, encourages psychotherapists working with traumatized individuals to learn as much as possible about theory, tools, and treatment so that they will be well-equipped to work with the unpredictability of trauma and the diverse needs of clients.
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PTSD #7: Engaging Survivors of Extreme Violence - Interview with Martha Bragin, PhD
Martha Bragin, PhD, has spent her professional career working with survivors of extreme violence. She describes her work and discusses how therapists can understand and connect to these survivors, who feel so isolated by their experiences.
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PTSD #8: Resilience - Interview with Froma Walsh, PhD
Froma Walsh, PhD, discusses family and community resilience-oriented approaches to recovery from traumatic loss. Her multi-systemic practice approach contextualizes the distress in the traumatic experience and taps strengths and resources in relational networks to foster resilience and healing and posttraumatic growth.
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PTSD #9: Posttraumatic Growth - Interview with Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT
Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT, presents alternative perspectives on the development of trauma-related disorders as well as powerful new methods for their successful resolution. He offers three specific actions that can promote posttraumatic growth and success.
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PTSD: Couples and Family Treatment
Posttraumatic stress reactions can create instability in family relationships and may lead to additional crises in them. This course, consisting of two articles, helps the therapist understand how to treat a family or couple, where one of the family members has been traumatized.
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PTSD: Exposure Therapy and Constructive Narrative Therapy
Topics include the efficacy of exposure therapy in the treatment of PTSD, common myths associated with the use of exposure therapy, overview of clinical guidelines for exposure treatment, and helping patients "re-author" their view of the trauma and develop coping skills to manage PTSD and co-morbid symptoms.
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Rebuilding Attachments and Encouraging Resilience
Richard Kagan, PhD, offers tools that practitioners can use to help parents or other family members and children rebuild fragile or disrupted attachments, change patterns of destructive behavior, and implement safety plans to prevent further neglect, abuse, and trauma.
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Risk Management Basics: The Application of Law and Ethics to Risk Management
This course provides practitioners with essential information on how to reduce the potential for becoming the subject of a malpractice lawsuit or licensing board complaint. Topics include meeting the standard of care, record keeping, confidentiality, office policies, and boundary violations.
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Risk Management for Mental Health Professionals
Bryant Welch, JD, PhD, answers questions about risk management and how practitioners can protect themselves from professional liability exposure. The course also provides information on the elements of a suicide risk assessment.
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Schizophrenia: A Psychoeducational Model for Treating the Adolescent Who Is Seriously Emotionally Disturbed
Schizophrenia, one of the most serious and chronic mental illnesses, often begins in adolescence. It affects every aspect of individual and family functioning. The authors discuss a treatment model that includes establishment of a collaborative relationship between therapist and family, the provision of information and support, and the creation of
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Searching for a Good Night's Sleep
Many adults complain of poor sleep yet engage in behaviors that are counterproductive to sleep. This artic
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Six Types of Sexual Addiction: Interview with Douglas Weiss, PhD
Douglas Weiss, PhD, sexual addictions expert, describes six different types of sexual addictions and provides tools that can be used for assessment and treatment.
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Social Anxiety Disorder and Alcohol Use
This program examines the diagnosis and prevalence of social anxiety disorder and reviews studies evaluating the relationship between alcohol consumption and social anxiety. The material summarizes treatment approaches for social anxiety disorder alone as well as in combination with alcohol-related problems.
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Solution - Focused Brief Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a competency-based, collaborative psychotherapeutic approach that is both effective and time-sensitive. Although it is a relatively brief form of treatment, SFBT is capable of initiating profound change in people's lives by helping them to resolve the most challenging and intractable problems. The author exp
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Suicide Assessment and Intervention
Suicide assessment and intervention is a topic relevant to all health care providers. Research shows that most people who kill themselves have a diagnosable mental or substance use disorder, or both, and that the majority of them have depressive illness. This course discusses prevalence, risk factors, suicide assessment, and intervention.
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Suicide Crisis Intervention Model with 25 Practical Strategies for Implementation
Suicidal clients are a difficult and challenging population in counseling. This article contains 25 practical, hands-on strategies for counselors to assist in their interactions with suicidal clients. The strategies are situated within a seven-step model for crisis intervention that is specifically tailored to suicidal clients.
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Supervision: Clinical Supervision - Principles and Practice
This course outlines principles of clinical supervision and guidelines for supervisors, addresses such issues as cultural competence, ethical and legal issues, and documen
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Supervision: Issues in Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision, while appearing on the surface to be similar to psychotherapy, is a different relationship, a different set of skills, with unique qualities and characteristics that set it apart. Four experts discuss various aspects of supervision, including the dimensions of supervision from a systemic point of view, the relational model of
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Supervision: Psychotherapy-Driven Supervision
This program presents detailed descriptions of the teacher, counselor, and consultant roles of supervisors. Psychotherapy-driven supervision is illustrated for three theoretical approaches: humanistic-relationship oriented, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused.
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Transgenerational Trauma and Child Sexual Abuse: Reconceptualizing Cases Involving Young Survivors of CSA
Transgenerational trauma is defined as trauma that has been passed down from one generation to another, either directly or indirectly. The authors review the literature on child sexual abuse (CSA), the influence of primary caregivers and transgenerational trauma, and present a case illustration. Specific interventions are offered to provide mental
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Treating Co-Occurring Substance Use and Eating Disorders
This course provides information on the diagnostic criteria for eating disorders, prevalence, the relationship between eating disorders and substance use disorders, and strategies, tools, and techniques for managing clients with comorbid eating disorders and substance abuse. The material includes a case history.
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Treating Substance Abuse in LGBT Clients: Overview and Cultural Issues
The first part of this course presents an overview of the use and abuse of substances in the LGBT community and gives a brief introduction to the concepts of gender identity, sexual orientation, homophobia, and heterosexism. The second part of the course presents information to help providers understand cultural issues relevant to treating LGBT cli
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Treatment of Eating Disorder Clients in a Community-Based Partial Hospitalization Program
There is increasing emphasis on the delivery of evidence-based treatment services. This article outlines a multi-faceted treatment approach to eating disorders within a partial hospital program affiliated with a community mental health hospital.
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Treatment Techniques in Child Psychotherapy
This course gives details about several aspects of play therapy as well as the use of paradoxical techniques with children. The material has a segment on EMDR, includes a case study using cognitive behavior play therapy with an encopretic child, and describes a skills approach to treating childhood depression.
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Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorders
Attachment and caregiving systems are at the heart of that crucial first relationship. This program discusses the diagnosis and treatment of attachment disorders.
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Understanding Suicidal Behavior in the Military
Suicide in the military is a significant concern. The authors review empirical studies and use two case studies to illustrate the potential explanatory role of Joiner's (2005) interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior: The theory posits that three variables--perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and acquired capability for
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Working with Gay Youth
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, president of On Good Authority, interviews Ritch Savin-Williams, PhD, Director of the Sex and Gender Lab at Cornell University, and Robert Galatzer-Levy, MD, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and co-author of The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives about issues related to psychotherapy with gay youth
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