Continuing Education for Psychologists
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July
July 24: Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Challenging Behaviors Related to Acquired Brain Injury: Session I. Zoom. Free. 0 CEs. Challenging behavioral outcomes of acquired brain injury (ABI) often impact recovery and compromise long-term quality of life. This six-hour training provides a brief overview of the most common behavioral challenges associated with ABI as well as evidence-supported practices for assessment and treatment. This session reviews brain structures associated with behavioral outcomes including socially disinhibited, withdrawn, and agitated presentations. The components of a therapeutic environment and the use of Positive Behavior Supports for reducing challenging behaviors are reviewed. Sponsored by Brain Injury Assoc. of Mass. Contact: www.biama.org/forprofessionals
July 25: Prescription Privileges for Appropriately Trained Psychologists. Zoom. $40 (Free for CPA members), 1 CE. Presenter: Beth Rom-Rymer, Ph.D., Founder of the Illinois Association of Prescribing Psychologists. Sponsored by Connecticut Psychological Assoc. Contact: connpsych.org/events/
August
Aug 28: Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Challenging Behaviors Related to Acquired Brain Injury: Session II. Zoom. Free. 0 CEs. Challenging behavioral outcomes of acquired brain injury (ABI) often impact recovery and compromise long-term quality of life. This six-hour training provides a brief overview of the most common behavioral challenges associated with ABI as well as evidence-supported practices for assessment and treatment. This session will review cognitive disorders contributing to challenges in behavioral regulation. Assessing behavior and implementing evidenced-supported practices for reducing challenging behaviors as well as techniques for teaching socially functional behaviors are reviewed. Sponsored by Brain Injury Assoc. of Mass. Contact: www.biama.org/forprofessionals
September
Sept. 5: Suicide Prevention for Military, Veterans, and Law Enforcement through Safer Firearm Storage: Lethal Means Counseling. Newton, MA. $150, 4.5 CEs. This program will provide clinicians with the background knowledge about firearms, safe firearms storage, firearms safety and the laws of firearms ownership in Massachusetts to improve their knowledge, vernacular and confidence, when discussing suicide prevention as it relates to firearms and safer firearms storage with military and veterans in the community. This training will also discuss the relationship veterans and law enforcement have with firearms. It will provide an overview of tools for suicide risk screening and will offer specific questioning and scenarios related to risk of death by suicide with firearms demonstrated and practiced through role play. Sponsored by William James College. Contact: www.williamjames.edu/academics/continuing-education/
Sept. 12: Navigating Political Stress. Online. $199, 6 CEs. Join us for an engaging and enlightening CE course that explores the complexities of Adult ADHD—often misunderstood, frequently misdiagnosed, and profoundly impactful. “The Fast Mind Club” takes a deeper dive into the unique, interest-based nervous system that defines the wild and wonderful ADHD brain. You’ll learn what ADHD really is (and what it isn’t), uncover common challenges and hidden strengths, and gain insight into how it feels to navigate life without the correct user’s manual. Through a neurodiversity-affirming approach, this course equips psychologists with deeper empathy, better diagnostic clarity, and practical tools to support clients in embracing their fast minds, and is ideal for professionals ready to move beyond the deficit model and into a more nuanced, empowering understanding of ADHD in adulthood. Sponsored by Vermont Psychological Assoc. Contact: https://twinstates.ce21.com/
Sep. 26 – Oct 24: College Mental Health. Online. Sponsored by Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School. Contact: www.challiance.org/psychiatry-ce
October
Oct. 10: Suicide Prevention for Military, Veterans, and Law Enforcement through Safer Firearm Storage: Lethal Means Counseling. Newton, MA. $150, 4.5 CEs. This program will provide clinicians with the background knowledge about firearms, safe firearms storage, firearms safety and the laws of firearms ownership in Massachusetts to improve their knowledge, vernacular and confidence, when discussing suicide prevention as it relates to firearms and safer firearms storage with military and veterans in the community. This training will also discuss the relationship veterans and law enforcement have with firearms. It will provide an overview of tools for suicide risk screening and will offer specific questioning and scenarios related to risk of death by suicide with firearms demonstrated and practiced through role play. Sponsored by William James College. Contact: www.williamjames.edu/academics/continuing-education/
Oct. 17: Moving Past Silence: Treating Families Impacted by Sexual Abuse. Burlington, MA & Zoom. $140-160, 6 CEs. This workshop will address the significant number of our “trauma” clients who are victims of intrafamilial sexual abuse. The work includes people who have been violated by trusted others including coaches, family friends, and clergy. Mary Jo will discuss the differences between incest and other forms of relational harm including physical and emotional abuse. You will learn how to provide treatment enlightened by understanding the nuances of this complex developmental trauma. What clinicians will learn includes: interventions for the crisis of discovery and disclosure as well as later phases of treatment; understanding how clients’ being related to or emotionally close to a perpetrator impacts the therapeutic relationship; learning about the dynamics of sibling sexual abuse; specific treatment interventions for family therapy when the sexual abuse is current between family members; methods for family of origin work when our clients are adults. Sponsored by Therapy Training Boston. Contact them for further information or to register.
Oct. 24-25: CPA Annual Convention: Population health, psychological practice and intervention. Yale University west campus, CT. $50-$249. Sponsored by Connecticut Psychological Assoc. Contact: connpsych.org/events/
Oct. 24: Brave New World: Artificial Intelligence in the Behavioral Health Professions. Zoom. $119 ($84 for RIPA members), 4 CEs. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in psychology and other behavioral health professions. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments, assist people in crisis, strengthen prevention efforts, record clinical notes, forecast clinical outcomes, provide supervision and consultation, identify systemic biases in the delivery of behavioral health services, provide professional education, and predict practitioner burnout, among other uses. This training will examine cutting-edge ethical and risk management issues related to psychologists’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline elements of a strategy for practitioners’ ethical use of AI. Join Dr. Frederic Reamer as he examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools. Sponsored by Rhode Island Psychological Assoc. Contact: https://www.ripsych.org/events/
Oct. 24: Fast Mind Club: Understanding Adult ADHD. Online. $199, 6 CEs. Sponsored by Vermont Psychological Assoc. Contact: https://twinstates.ce21.com/
Ongoing
EMDR Basic Training. Zoom. $750 for 20 CEs. The EMDR Therapy Basic Training (Weekend 1 and 2, 20 CEs each) is designed for licensed mental health practitioners who treat adults and children in a clinical setting (See Qualifications Section). EMDR is a comprehensive psychotherapy that accelerates the treatment of a wide range of pathologies and self-esteem issues related to disturbing events and present life conditions. Sponsored by the EMDR Institute. Learn more: emdr.com
EMDR. Online. $1525-$1725, 40 CEs. This is hands-on clinical skills training for using EMDR and integrating it with your psychotherapy approach — with adults as well as children. Sponsored by Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute. Learn more & register: www.ticti.org/training/emdr/
Slaying the Dragon. Online. $30, 6.5 CEs. This program provides advanced clinical skills for trauma-informed evaluation, treatment planning, and supervision/consultation. Introduction to progressive counting (PC). Sponsored by Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute. Learn more & register: www.ticti.org/training/fairy-tale-model/
Progressive Counting. Online. $850, 30 CEs. Progressive Counting (PC) is a fairly new research-supported trauma treatment that is effective, efficient, well-tolerated by clients, and relatively easy to master. This is a hands-on clinical skills training for using Progressive Counting with clients of all ages who have been exposed to significant trauma or loss. This in-depth training will cover trauma theory, impact of trauma and loss, identification and assessment of traumatized clients, and directly helping clients to manage their symptoms, resolve their trauma/loss memories, and prepare to cope effectively with future challenges. Sponsored by Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute. Learn more & register: www.ticti.org/training/progressive-counting/