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We have chosen a sampling of courses that we hope will enrich you in your own journey as well as sharpen you in your practice. The emerging field of psychotherapy and spirituality embraces the key issues of empowerment, responsibility and community within the religious and cultural settings of your clients.
Below are our current available courses:
The course/text looks at the processes of attachment that frequently result in addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. It considers addiction as a broader issue that involves a range of behaviors far beyond alcohol and drugs to include work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert complete control over ones life.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
The course, Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman empowers clinicians with the tools to develop nurturing sets of strengths, competencies, and virtues in people; such as future-mindedness, hope, interpersonal skills, courage,the capacity for 'flow,' faith, and developing a work ethic.
CE credit Hours: 10
Price: $100
$60
This user friendly book offers insight to the clinician, identifying the tools for persons with bipolar disorder to manage their illness. The author builds bridges of understanding between the person with bipolar disorder, their family and their professional support system.
CE credit Hours: 15
Price:
$75
In Bold Love, Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III present a fresh perspective on genuine Christian love; defining it as aggressive, unrelenting and passionate. Rather than helping people merely 'get along' with others at the expense of integrity, the authors introduce the possibility of making a significant, life-changing impact on family, friends, co-workers and even enemies.
CE credit Hours: 12
Price: $120
$60
Boundaries is the seminal text on getting one’s life under control. Evidence of this book striking a common human chord is confirmed by sales of more than 700,000 copies and the spawning of specific issue volumes such as Boundaries in Marriage, Boundaries with Kids and Boundaries in Dating.
CE credit Hours: 12
Price: $120
$60
Boundaries in Marriage is a natural extension of the principles developed by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend in their breakthrough text, Boundaries. However, there is no need for clinicians to read the first book prior to mastering Boundaries in Marriage.
CE credit Hours: 11
Price: $110
$55
Boundaries with Kids emerged from the award-winning boundary work of Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend. Indeed, the same premise is the foundation for all the books: boundaries are similar to property lines, they help people figure out what belongs to them and what belongs to someone else.
CE credit Hours: 9
Price: $90
$45
Ellen K. Baker guides the reader through waters all helping professionals must navigate in preserving their own well-being and in fortifying themselves from the unrelenting tides of stress unique to mental health practitioners.
CE credit Hours: 6
Price: $60
$50
SECTION ONE: Includes Parts I & II, (Chapters 1-7). We have chosen to present Competent Christian Counseling in three separate sections to help manage the course content and sharpen the focus as you review the text. This section covers the Introduction, Spiritual, Biological and Psychosocial Foundations of Christian Counseling.
CE credit Hours: 5
Price: $50
$40
SECTION TWO: Includes Parts III & IV, (Chapters 8-16). We have chosen to present Competent Christian Counseling in three separate sections to help manage the course content and sharpen the focus as you review the text. This section covers the Counseling Relationship, Ethics, and the Process and Practice of Christian Counseling.
CE credit Hours: 7
Price: $70
$50
SECTION THREE: Includes Parts V & VI, (Chapters 17-33). We have chosen to present Competent Christian Counseling in three separate sections to help manage the course content and sharpen the focus as you review the text. This section covers the major counseling modalities; marriage therapy,group work...
CE credit Hours: 11
Price: $110
$75
CONVERSATIONS: Is a Journal that provides a Forum for Spiritual and Psychological Formation. It is published twice per year (Spring and Fall), by the Psychological Studies Institute in Atlanta, GA. Please click on the Order Journal Online button to order this edition of Conversations.
CE credit Hours: 5
Price:
$30
CONVERSATIONS: Is a Journal that provides a Forum for Spiritual and Psychological Formation. It is published twice per year (Spring and Fall), by the Psychological Studies Institute in Atlanta, GA. Please click on the Order Journal Online button to order this edition of Conversations.
CE credit Hours: 5
Price:
$30
Drs. Peter Sheras and Phyllis Koch-Sheras introduce the Couple Power Therapy model, an exciting new approach in which partners co-create a unified vision for their relationship. They use a series of sequential tasks to teach the partners how to transcend their individual identities to nurture the each other.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
The course offers a compilation of mature therapeutic insights that are valuable in achieving a better way of living. It describes a unique experiment in applied psychology where a group of individuals overcame a wide range of defensive behaviors and transformed their lives.
CE credit Hours: 15
Price: $150
$75
Ernest Becker received the Pulitzer Prize for this work in 1974, two months after his death from colon cancer at age 49. The book expresses Becker’s view of humankind's evolution of thought. His work is built upon Otto Rank and Norman Brown's understanding of death and of Freud's psychoanalytical theory.
CE credit Hours: 12
Price: $120
$60
In this book, relationship expert Gary Smalley shows how people are designed for relationships: with others, with themselves, and with God. It’s part of a person's relational DNA. When those relationships are balanced and healthy, life is good. But too often people live with broken, strained relationships, and the pain can be unbearable.
CE credit Hours: 7
Price: $70
$50
Based on the first Summit of Positive Psychology, this book puts flesh on the emerging field of positive psychology. The text turns from psychology's pre-occupation with mental illness to mental health. Unapologetically scholars discuss 'the good life' or flourishing.
CE credit Hours: 13
Price: $130
$65
The Gift of Therapy is Irvin Yalom's gift to the future generations of psychotherapists. Yalom's brand of spirituality is found in his wisdom, authenticity, honesty and his existential view of life. The American Psychiatric Association awarded him the 2000 Oscar Pfister prize for important contributions to religion and psychiatry.
CE credit Hours: 10
Price: $100
$50
The pain of losing a family member to an irreconcilable rift can be devastating. Mark Sichel’s Healing from Family Rifts will help clinicians guide others to finding peace and recovering from the isolation of family exile through his proven, ten-step healing program.
CE credit Hours: 7
Price:
$60
Dan Allender says that doubt, despair, and disappointment are not only a reality of daily life, they are also the tools God uses to grow faith, hope, and love. If people run from what they fear they actually rob themselves of the joy God intends for them to experience. The Healing Path is about the road that leads to health as people face the pain in their lives.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
This book is intended for the professional in the mental health fields who, whether they currently know it or not, work with persons who have or may develop addictions. Close attention is paid to the reasons why addictions often go unrecognized in psychotherapy. This book is an excellent resource for learning about structured as well as interview-based methods of addiction assessment.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
This APA published text is an excellent reference for clinicians seeking ideas on the synthesis of spirituality and therapy. CE participants will review a thorough history of the relationship between spirituality and mental health.
CE credit Hours: 11
Price: $110
$55
The Intimate Mystery, Creating Strength and Beauty in Your Marriage by Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III, takes a deeper look at the heart of marriage. The book presents a refreshing context for relational transformation.
CE credit Hours: 5
Price: $50
$40
This book provides an ideal course for clinicians who are interested in sharpening their people caring skills.It is appropriate for master level socal workers. The insights are helpful to therapists of all ages and experience. Dr. Mary Pipher is an excellent supervisor that provides for the newer, as well as the more experienced therapist, a bag of wisdom to share with their clients.
CE credit Hours: 6
Price: $60
$50
Rabbi Kushner's book, Living A Life that Matters, underlines the struggles of living in two worlds. He defines the outer world of performance, achievement, commerce and work as a world where there are more losers than winners.
CE credit Hours: 7
Price: $70
$50
Rabbi Wolpe shares the wisdom of ancient stories, great philosophers, poets and rabbis as he addresses the pain and suffering that loss produces. He focuses on the question of how rather than why. How can people create meaning in difficult times?
CE credit Hours: 9
Price: $90
$60
Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology is an excellent collection of well-written chapters that draw on women's experience in expanding the conversation on ethics and psychology. The authors model a style of thinking and practicing that focuses on the empowerment of women and girls, while avoiding false universals.
CE credit Hours: 9
Price: $90
$75
This highly acclaimed book and PBS series comparing the philosophies of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis evolved from a course taught for 25 years by Harvard professor Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D. Although these diametrically opposed brilliant minds of the 20th century never met, Nicholi intriguingly places their arguments side by side in virtual debate.
CE credit Hours: 12
Price: $120
$60
Dr. Larry Crabb proposes a counseling model to help clinicians connect more deeply with others. Tired of superficial communication, Crabb developed the SoulTalk approach, to connect therapists with the deepest struggles, desires and dreams of other’s. He cleverly lays out the SoulTalk model via a five step dance lesson.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
Spiritual Assessment is a handbook that outlines five assessment tools that can be used to conduct spiritual assessments. David R. Hodge addresses the pressing need for clinicians to be able to conduct research based spiritual assessments by offering a “how to” in this concise, practical book.
CE credit Hours: 4
Price: $40
$30
In the course Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice The Heart of Helping Edward R. Canda, Ph.D. Leola Dyrud Furman, Ph.D. offer heartfelt information to all clinicians interested in the ethical application of Spirituality into the framework of people helping.
CE credit Hours: 12
Price: $120
$60
Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy provides a treasury of resources to the clinician. Various experts, in their unique perspectives, address the beliefs and the practices that are deeply personal and the means within various communities of faith where they are experienced.
CE credit Hours: 13
Price: $130
$65
In ‘To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future’, Dr. Dan Allender shows people how to read the stories of their lives. This text will help them understand the meaning God has written into the details of who they are.
CE credit Hours: 7
Price: $70
$50
This Institute of Medicine book sets forth a agenda with for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system.'The problem is not bad people in health care..it is that good people are working in systems that need to be made safer.'Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising quality patient care.
CE credit Hours: 6
Price: $60
$50
This book fills a key need by presenting an integrated model for dealing with substance use disorders (SUDs) in an office-based practice. Flexible, nondogmatic and practical, the text focuses on 'what works' in addressing SUDs from initial assessment through early, middle, and the later states of treatment.
CE credit Hours: 10
Price: $100
$50
The course presents an integrated approach to the treatment of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. This integrated approach broadens the perspectives of experienced and early career professionals alike. Practitioners from independent practice to public and private clinics will find the information beneficial.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
Arthur Kleinman explores the narratives of individuals as a backdrop for his observations on how adversity affects morality and self-identity. Kleinman offers in this book a groundbreaking approach to ethics; examining personal identity and moral choices in the context of disturbing realities.
CE credit Hours: 8
Price: $80
$50
This book explores the problems, dilemmas, double-binds and provocations that take place between therapists and their patients. The authors approach the content with humor and wisdom, challenging professionals to explore the real impact their values, assumptions, and personal interests have upon their clients.
CE credit Hours: 6
Price: $60
$50
The book of Ecclesiastes is the backdrop for Rabbi Kushner's exploration of the topic, 'What really gives meaning to life'? Solomon looks into this timeless question by exploring the paths of selfishness and self-interest, the pursuits of pleasure, success and wealth.
CE credit Hours: 6
Price: $60
$50
Rabbi Kushner explores the difficulties of affirming faith in the midst of life's tragedies. His views embrace helpful insights to the process of grieving. Clinicians will find his questions resonating with the issues underlining all loss, as well as the question of God in the light of pain and personal loss.
CE credit Hours: 6
Price: $60
$50
The Wounded Heart is a book that visits the painful realities of sexual abuse with intellectual accuracy, spiritual integrity and compassion. Allender explains in detail the processes of seduction and vulnerability.
CE credit Hours: 12
Price: $120
$60
