This Continuing Education package is specially designed and priced for your initial California MFT or LCSW license renewal. At a substantial discount it gives you 20 hours of coursework and satisfies all current first-renewal requirements by including these GGS at-home courses.
This Continuing Education package is specially designed and priced for your initial California MFT or LCSW license renewal. At a substantial discount it gives you 20 hours of coursework and satisfies all current first-renewal requirements by including these GGS at-home courses.
Contents:
Law and Ethics 2022 CE Course (6 CEs)
HIV-AIDS CE Course (7 CEs)
Working with Suicidal Clients CE Course (3 CEs)
Suicide: The Aftermath CE Course (4 CEs)
Law and Ethics 2022 CE Text-based Home Course (6 CEs)
A thorough understanding of current laws and ethical standards pertaining to psychotherapy is critical for mental health professionals. This text presents comprehensive and up-to-date information specific to recently enacted legislation as it pertains to mental health professionals in California. It also includes an overview of issues such as privilege and confidentiality, danger to self or others, treatment of minors, mandated responsibilities, telehealth, health insurance and private practice, and other legal issues related to mental health practice. Recent changes in the law are highlighted.
Author: Gerry Grossman, M.A., LMFT
Target Audience: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced; California LMFTs, Social Workers, LPCCs, and LEPs.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Assess and manage legal responsibilities pertaining to both mandated and permitted exceptions.
Assess and manage ethical responsibilities including dual relationships, establishing and maintaining clinical boundaries, managing countertransference, and engaging the client in the informed consent process.
Maintain a standard of care to protect against charges of criminal, civil, and ethical wrongdoing.
Describe how to consult to better uphold legal and ethical responsibilities.
HIV-AIDS CE Text-based Home Course (7 CEs)
Includes all the most current information available about this life-threatening illness affecting more and more families. Contents include: overview, current treatments, cultural issues, legal & ethical issues, counseling clients and their partners, friends and families as well as referrals to community resources for those affected by H.I.V. and A.I.D.S.
Authors: Grenda Pearlman, M.A., LMFT, Mary Ella Viehe, Ph.D., LMFT
Target Audience: Introductory and Intermediate; LMFTs, Social Workers, LPCCs, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, and other mental health clinicians.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Communicate effectively with clients and professional colleagues on a range of social, psychological, interpersonal, and medical issues related to the care and treatment of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Identify factors critical to the assessment of individuals at risk for the acquisition or transmission of HIV to determine appropriate counseling and intervention strategies.
Demonstrate a culturally-competent understanding of the impact of HIV on specific populations with regard to race, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation.
Identify and apply legal and ethical considerations with regard to treating clients with HIV/AIDS.
Utilize appropriate methods and skills for counseling clients with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS.
Working with Suicidal Clients (3 CEs)
This course will explore suicide risk that is associated with mental disorders, particular ethnic populations, and with regard to age (e.g., elders, children, adolescents and college-age adults). This presentation provides therapists techniques for developing suicide assessment protocols and treatment interventions, and in treating suicidal behaviors using a Dialectical Behavior Therapy model.
Authors: Gerry Grossman, MA, LMFT, Melanie Haro, MA, LMFT, Kristen Hudson, MA, LMFT, Nancy Klein, MA, LMFT, Chuck Moshontz, MA, LMFT, Mary Ella Viehe, Ph.D, LMFT
Target Audience: Introductory and Intermediate; LMFTs, Social Workers, LPCCs, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, and other mental health clinicians.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Identify mental disorders commonly associated with high suicide risk.
Identify cultural and age group characteristics that may increase suicide risk.
Utilize suicide assessment and treatment protocols.
Integrate Dialectical Behavior Therapy concepts and interventions into suicide treatment.
*This course satisfies the following California BBS Pre-licensure requirements:
3 hours toward the 15 hours of Crisis or Trauma Counseling required for California LPCC candidates
Suicide: The Aftermath (4 CEs)
Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, and for every person who completes a suicide, there are at least six to 10 “survivors” who will grieve the consequences. Suicide can be a stigmatizing process, such that survivors may face blame and social exclusion, and may blame themselves for the death of their loved one. Their grief process may not be suited for typical grief counseling models, so therapists working with this population need to explore their own assumptions and traditional approaches to grief and loss.
