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This course provides an overview of frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and related movement disorders, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and caregiving.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a severe condition caused by moderate to heavy alcohol use by the mother during pregnancy. Mental health providers can better support clients facing challenges due to FAS when they understand the complexities of FAS and the importance of intervention in mitigating its effects. The course prepares social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and counselors to recognize FAS in clients and to use effective interventions and approaches when working with these clients and their families.

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Course covering the opioid crisis and fentanyl use, including treatment of fentanyl overdose, naloxone reversal, and fentanyl-induced psychosis. Topics include overdose detection, pharmacological profile, mechanism of action, and medical management.

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Based on SAMHSA's Moving Beyond Change Efforts, this course presents best practices for working with LGBTQI+ youth, covering evidence-based findings on sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, behavioral health concerns, and therapeutic approaches appropriate for clinical, community, family, and school settings.

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This course addresses the technology competencies, specific ethical challenges, requirements, and demands of telehealth services through scenarios, literature review, and discussion. Designed for human services and mental healthcare practitioners, including social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.

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Presents information about ethical values, standards, and principles that guide client or patient care, as well as guidelines for making ethical decisions when dilemmas inevitably arise. Examines a wide variety of ethical challenges common to clinical practice and provides examples to apply these concepts to real world experience with clients. Discusses current research on emerging concerns such as dual relationships, telehealth, and social media.

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This continuing education domestic violence course will provide an overview of Elder Abuse.

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Early Intervention, Treatment, and Management of Substance Use Disorders describes the goals, settings, and stages of treatment, and reviews the effectiveness of the major components of early intervention and treatment approaches, including behavioral therapies, medications, and social services.

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This course focuses on the history, epidemiology, and health effects of e-cigarette use among youth and young adults.

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The birth of a new baby brings joy to many parents, but it can also cause unexpected emotions and thoughts. This is particularly true in mothers, who may experience anxiety, depression, and/or emotional distress during pregnancy and postpartum. Mental health providers can support patients struggling through the perinatal period by helping them to understand their "scary thoughts" and assess the severity of their distress.

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This course focuses on the importance of adapting therapeutic interventions to integrate and account for social determinants of health (SDH). Social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and counselors are provided guidelines for integrating this information into the ways they engage with clients in assessment and intervention. Integration of SDH into treatment is examined in the context of existing treatment modalities commonly in use in mental health care, including Solution Focused Treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Play Therapy.

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Part 2 of a three-part series designed for social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and counselors on the topics of culture and the psychosocial implications of socioeconomic position. The course focuses on the importance of adapting therapeutic interventions to integrate and account for social determinants of health (SDH), with guidelines for integrating this information into assessment and intervention. Integration of SDH into treatment is examined in the context of existing treatment modalities including Solution Focused Treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Play Therapy.

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Introduces social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and counselors to the effects of social determinants of health and guides them in incorporating this information into assessment and intervention with individuals, groups, families and communities. Examines social stigmas and cultural forces impacting health outcomes, including racial and ethnic identity, gender identity and expression, body size, ability status, immigration status, mental health status, legal status, and economic disadvantage.

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Part 3 of a three-part series focusing on integration of social determinants of health into development of policy and interventions on mezzo- and macro-levels and on a public health scale. Covers frameworks including Health At Every Size, Housing First interventions, safe injection sites, alternatives to DSM-5-TR, and prison abolition/restorative justice movements, with implications for child welfare, immigration, education, health and health insurance systems.

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How to provide culturally sensitive care for clients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorder. This book, written and edited by leading experts from around the world, looks critically at how culture impacts on the way post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorders are diagnosed and treated.

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This course presents SAMHSA's national guidelines and best practices for crisis care, covering crisis services for individuals experiencing homelessness, substance use disorders, diverse populations, and children and adolescents. It supports clinicians in expanding knowledge on barriers to managing behavioral health crises for specific populations and ways to combat those barriers.

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This course presents SAMHSA's national guidelines and best practices for crisis care, exploring opportunities and challenges in implementing and delivering crisis services, with strategies to enhance crisis response including technology, legal and regulatory issues, and the role of law enforcement in crisis care.

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This course presents SAMHSA's national guidelines and best practices for crisis care, which can be used to strengthen crisis care and reduce the impact of substance abuse, acute mental illness, and suicide in America. The course supports social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, counselors, program managers, and direct care providers working within crisis care systems in providing effective crisis care that follows a set of national guidelines.

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This continuing education course provides an overview of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and 42 CFR Part 2 and their implications for mental health practitioners.

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This continuing education course provides an overview of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and 42 CFR Part 2 and their implications for mental health practitioners.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) course designed for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists. Covers theoretical underpinnings, case conceptualization, self-monitoring, core CBT interventions, and applications to depression, anxiety, social phobia, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is commonly regarded as the gold standard of psychotherapy; this assertion is based on the vast and thorough research base supporting CBT including evidence that it has been widely and successfully implemented. This learning material is designed for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists who wish to improve their CBT practice to be more effective with their difficult to treat clients or to learn new interventions to add to their toolbox.