Total CE Credit Hours: 17
Course Info URL: http://www.ce-credit.com/courses/102102
About the Course:
This course provides a practical, straightforward, and readable summary of changes from the previous edition of the DSM by focusing on clinical utility and counselor practice implications. Another focus of the authors is to ensure readers understand what these changes mean to them and how they can be applied in day to day practice. In order to enhance efficiency, course materials highlight the changes that relate to disorders counselors most commonly treat. Emerging diagnostic trends, developmental considerations, the diagnostic interview, updated coding processes, the diagnostic interview, and culturally informed assessment are also presented. Overall, the material provided in this course is a highly readable and timely resource to clinical practice.
Journal/Publisher:
American Counseling Association
Publication Date:
2014, Second Edition
Course Material Authors
Recommended For:
This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about changes contained in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Identify the goals of the DSM-5 revision process as well as the structural modifications accompanying that process in order to apply them to day to day clinical practice.
Identify DSM-5 changes and implications involving mood, anxiety, and stressor-related concerns.
Identify DSM-5 changes and implications involving addictive, impulse-control, and specific behavior-related concerns.
Identify DSM-5 changes and implications involving diagnoses commonly made by other professionals.
Identify future trends regarding additional changes and their practice implications for counselors.
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American Psychological Association (APA)
CE Learning Systems is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Our Provider Number: 5951
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NBCC Counselors completing this course will receive 17 credits.
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
Our Provider Number: 107243
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National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
NASP accepts 30 CPD credits of sequenced self-study per each three year renewal.
American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders (AAHCPAD)
Our Provider Number: 17-1460
CE Learning Systems dba CE-credit.com has been approved to offer Continuing Education credit for Certified Addiction Specialists (CAS) in accordance with the American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders. Approval No. 17-1460.
DSM-5 Learning Companion for Counselors
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CE Learning Systems, provider #1020, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/23/2019 – 2/23/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 17 online non-interactive continuing education credits.