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Comparison of 12-step Groups to Mutual Help Alternatives for AUD in a Large, National Study-Differences in Membership Characteristics and Group Participation, Cohesion, and Satisfaction 1.25 credits

This course compares traditional 12-Step groups to mutual help alternatives for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). It includes membership characteristics, group participation, cohesion, satisfaction, alternatives to the 12-step model, basic demographic...

Groups, Alcohol, 12 Step

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Dealing With Ethical Challenges in Mental Health: a Focus Group Study 1.75 credits

Most studies of clinical ethics are based on scenarios, not direct reporting of how clinicians and clinical teams actually cope with ethical challenges. In this study, the authors use focus...

Ethics

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Group Therapy and Substance Use Patients 1.5 credits

This course contains two articles that discuss evidence-based practice, group therapy and mindfulness in substance use disorder treatment. The first article examines evidence-based practice vs treatment—as-usual in group therapy, as...

Mindfulness, Evidence Based Interventions, Groups, Inpatient, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Effectiveness of Art Therapy With Adult Clients in 2018—What Progress Has Been Made? 2 credits

In the year 2000, an important art therapy literature review addressed an essential question—does art therapy work? It discussed 17 articles dealing with the issue of the effectiveness of art...

Trauma, Criminal Justice, Art Therapy, Older Adults

Expressive Therapies

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Poor, Persecuted, Young, and Alone-Toward Explaining the Elevated Risk of Alcohol Problems Among Black and Latino Men Who Drink 1 credit

This course examines the risk of alcohol problems and consequences among Hispanic and African American men. It discusses, disparities, socioeconomic status, and discrimination as they pertain to alcohol use. It...

Alcohol, Minorities, African Americans, Hispanic

Addictions, Substance Use

Cultural & Racial Diversity

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mutual Help Group Participation for Substance Use Problems 1.25 credits

This course examines whether there are disparities in mutual help participation for substance use problems, including alcohol, among African American, Hispanic, Native American based on race/ethnicity while seeking self-help. It...

Indigenous communities, Groups, Alcohol, African Americans, Hispanic

Addictions, Substance Use

Cultural & Racial Diversity

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

End-of-Life Care and Bereavement Issues in HIV/AIDS 1 credit

This review addresses end-of-life care issues characterizing HIV progression by delineating associated stages of medical and nursing care. Progression from the stage of primary medical and nursing care aimed at...

Grief

HIV and AIDS

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Behavioral Couples Treatment for Substance Use Disorder-Secondary Effects on the Reduction of Risk for Child Abuse 1.5 credits

This courses discusses the role of behavioral couples treatment where one or more parents in the home have a substance use disorder (SUD) in reducing the risk of child abuse....

Evidence Based Interventions, Parents, Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT)

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Creating Art Together As a Transformative Process in Parent-Child Relations: The Therapeutic Aspects of the Joint Painting Procedure 1.5 credits

This paper presents a qualitative study that is part of larger mixed-methods research with 87 mother-child dyads (with children 9 to 12 years old). Dyads were administered the Joint Painting...

Couples, Family

Expressive Therapies

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Hispanic Participants in the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Clinical Trials Network-A Scoping Review of Two Decades of Research 1 credit

This course examines data from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network tracking substance use disorder in Hispanics. It reviews 24 studies. It includes: participant demographics, drug use, co-morbidities, substance abuse treatment...

Opioids, Hispanic

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Motivational Interviewing With Couples-A Theoretical Framework for Clinical Practice Illustrated in Substance Use and HIV Prevention Intervention With Gay Male Couples 1.75 credits

This course examine using motivational interviewing in couples therapy as a way to enhance HIV prevention in gay and bisexual men. MI has been successful in drug treatment. It includes:...

Evidence Based Interventions, LGBTQ, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Couples

Couples, Family

HIV and AIDS

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Relative Expected Value of Drugs Versus Competing Rewards Underpins Vulnerability to and Recovery from Addiction 1.5 credits

This course address numerous theories and models in an attempt to create a unified theory of addiction based on concurrent drug choice tasks and relative value using economic Decision Theory....

Brief Intervention, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Contingency Management

Addictions, Substance Use

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Ethical and Professional Considerations in the Forensic Assessment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation 1.25 credits

A review article that delineates core ethical principles and challenges encountered in forensic assessment both generally and more specifically in the forensic assessment of complex trauma and dissociation. She also...

Trauma, Criminal Justice

Forensic, Criminal Justice

Ethics

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

An Integrated Psychodynamic Treatment Model for Suicidal Patients 1.25 credits

The Boston Suicide Study Group presents a theoretical and clinical approach to treatment of suicidal patients, often considered among the most challenging patient groups. While fundamentally a psychodynamic treatment grounded...

Suicide, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Therapeutic Relationship, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Clinical Topics & Methods

Suicide

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Personality Disorders in Older Adults: a Review of Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment 1.25 credits

This article reviews recent research on the epidemiology, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders among older adults (>60 years old). The authors also offer clinical implications and recommendations for clinicians...

Older Adults

Aging, Long Term Care

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Teaching Mental Awareness: New Treatment Approach for Personality Disorder 1 credit

No empirically proven treatments are currently available for individuals with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). The authors describe the potential benefits of teaching patients mentalization - the ability to recognize and...

Clinical Topics & Methods

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Reading-Based Online

APA Ethics Code: With the 2016 Amendments to Standard 3.04 2 credits

The most recent revision to the APA Ethics Code (2002) articulated general core principles as well as specific ethical standards that inform the practices of psychologists. Psychologists and those they...

Ethics

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Reading-Based Online

Containing The Anxieties Of Children, Parents And Families From a Distance During The Coronavirus Pandemic 1.25 credits

The coronavirus pandemic has been challenging for everyone, and the restrictions have created a need for improved teletherapy approaches for children. Using a Time Limited Mentalization-Based Approach for Children and...

Anxiety, Evidence Based Interventions, Youth, Parents

Clinical Topics & Methods

Couples, Family

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

The Effects of Interventions Preventing Self-harm and Suicide in Children and Adolescents: An Overview of Systemic Reviews 2 credits

The current study is an overview of systematic reviews concerning evaluation of any preventative or therapeutic intervention on suicidal ideation or self-harming behaviors in children/adolescents. Several preventative or therapeutic interventions...

Adolescents, Suicide, Digital Interventions, School/University

Children and Adolescents

Suicide

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

Friendship Quality and Gender Differences in Association With Cyberbullying Involvement and Psychological Well-Being 2 credits

This course is research oriented and some of the material is dense. Effects of cyberbullying include a range of internalizing and externalizing problems for those involved. Research sometimes ignores social-ecological...

Adolescents, Bullying/Cyberbullying

Clinical Topics & Methods

Children and Adolescents

No Cost Materials

Reading-Based Online

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