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Credits: 1
by American Psychological Association
The material for this course is The American Psychological Association's (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (hereinafter referred to as the Ethics Code). It is viewable on the APA web site and it consists of an Introduction, a Preamble, five General Principals, and specific Ethical Standards.
Cost: $0
Credits: 1
by National Board for Certified Counselors
The material for this course is the Code of Ethics of the National Board for Certified Counselors. This course most aligns with a course on ethics for those certifiable by the NBCC, however any clinician will find a review of these ethical guidelines and standards beneficial.
Cost: $0
Credits: 1
by Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: TIP 42
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) identifies key elements of treatment planning and programming for co-occurring substance use (abuse or dependence) and mental disorders (COD) in substance abuse treatment. While the needs and functioning of substance abuse treatment are accentuated, the elements described have relevance for mental health clinicians and agencies that seek to coordinate mental health and substance abuse services for their clients who need both.
Cost: $15
Credits: 3
by Barry Duncan, PhD
Barry Duncan's work is considered a 'must read' for serious minded clinicians seeking to grow in their ability to help others. These four articles reveal the basic tenets in his groundbreaking work in 'how we can become better therapists'.
Cost: $30
Credits: 4
David R. Hodge
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.
Cost: $35
Credits: 5
by Richard Trachtman, PhD
This course discusses the money taboo, what it is and how it has resulted in a dearth of teaching, writing and supervision regarding the relationship of money to intrapsychic and interpersonal development and adaptation, as well as inhibiting individual clients and clinicians from addressing money related concerns.
Cost: $40
Credits: 5
by Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III
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.
Cost: $40
Credits: 5
by James E. Phelan
The Addictions Recovery Workbook provides a diversity of exercises clinicians can assign to facilitate healing, discussion and accountability. This workbook provides tools for overcoming the inherent barriers in the recovery process allowing the addict to advance in his or her recovery.
Cost: $40
Credits: 5
Dr. Timothy Clinton and Dr. George Ohlschlager
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.
Cost: $30
Credits: 6
by Kenneth S. Pope, PhD, ABPP and Janet L. Sonne, PhD and Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP
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.
Cost: $35
Credits: 6
by Vivian Lamphear, PhD and Sherry Marlar
Anger Control Parenting (ACP) combines parent anger control and child behavior management training in one easy to learn package.
Cost: $50
Credits: 6
by Ellen K. Baker
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 6
by Rabbi Kushner
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 6
Edited by Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 6
by Rabbi Harold Kushner
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 6
by Mary Pipher PhD
This book provides an ideal course for clinicians who are interested in sharpening their people caring skills. Despite the title, the insights will be truly 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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 7
by Rabbi Harold Kushner
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 7
Dr. Timothy Clinton and Dr. George Ohlschlager
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 7
Dr. Gary Smalley, Michael Smalley, and Robert Paul
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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 7
by Mark Sichel
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.
Cost: $45
Credits: 7
by Philip J. Henry, PhD, Lori Marie Figueroa, MS, David R. Miller, PhD
This is an excellent source for innovative strategies connecting the everyday world of clients with Christian principles and Scripture. This creative, time-saving guide assists therapists in helping clients achieve therapy goals through professionally sound exercises while maintaining a positive, supportive connection with Christian beliefs.
Cost: $50
Credits: 7
by Dan Allender, PhD
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 8
by Dan B. Allender, Ph.D.
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.
Cost: $45
Credits: 8
by Dennis Saleebey
The fifth edition of The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice continues the endeavor to expand the conceptual, clinical, and practical elements of the strengths perspective. It is an outstanding collection of articles explaining the strengths-based philosophy, demonstrating how it works, and providing practical tools for its application. Each chapter is written by a respected individual(s) in the field providing a balanced approach to a social work practice that explores the strengths and assets of clients. An extensive and wide range of ideas and populations are covered in this text. The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice is intended for Licensed Clinical Social Workers at all levels of career experience.
Cost: $45
Credits: 8
by Jan Frank
Through this popular therapeutic book, Jan Frank, encourages victims of abuse to face the reality of what took place in their lives and the aftershocks that continue to take a toll. Then, implementing a Christian therapeutic approach, she walks them through the steps, and the stories of healing.
Cost: $55
Credits: 8
by Barry L. Duncan
For many therapists, tracking and making sense of the latest developments in psychotherapy can feel overwhelming. How can you achieve better results, more often, with a wider variety of clients? In short: How can you become a better therapist?
Cost: $50
Credits: 8
by Marilyn Freimuth
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.
Cost: $39
Credits: 8
by Jeffrey Barnett, PsyD and W. Brad Johnson, PhD
This desk reference will help counselors interpret and apply the ACA Code of Ethics in order to prevent and resolve ethical dilemmas. In parts I and II, Drs. Barnett and Johnson explore the Standards and Codes as well as providing a detailed model for ethical decision making.
Cost: $50
Credits: 8
by Peter L. Sheras, PhD, ABPP and Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras, PhD
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.
Cost: $55
Credits: 8
by Gerald G. May, M.D.
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 8
by Dr. Arthur Kleinman
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 8
Larry Crabb, PhD
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.
Cost: $45
Credits: 8
by Dr. Colleen M. Stortvedt
On the Road to Freedom: A Tool Kit for Christian Counselors…will help clinicians working from a Christian perspective to improve their mastery of respected Christian-clinical approaches. Colleen Stortvedt effectively presents methods, tools and strategies for the successful treatment of conflicted relationships, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, impulse control.
Cost: $44
Credits: 8
by Henry Virkler, PhD
Some assertiveness books wrestle with the biblical perspective and encourage clients to be assertive but never get to the behavioral steps to take for success. This book lays out those steps while addressing the cognitive-thinking and self-talk changes, which must occur for clients who want to go from a passive lifestyle to a more assertive lifestyle.
Cost: $44
Credits: 9
by Thomas Phelan, PhD, and Chris Webb, MS, MA
Clinicians working with parents desiring a Christian approach to parenting will find this book instrumental in parenting and family therapy. This 2nd edition of the award-winning 1-2-3 Magic for Christian Parents program addresses the difficult task of child discipline with humor, biblical insight, and proven experience. Complete with relevant Bible verses, explanations, and exercises, this program offers a foolproof method of disciplining children ages two through 12 without arguing, yelling, or spanking.
Cost: $50
Credits: 9
by Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Martin Seligman, PhD, shows how to chart a new approach to living with 'flexible optimism'. Dr. Seligman outlines in this text the easy to follow techniques that have helped thousands of people rise above the pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts and build a life of rewards and lasting happiness.
Cost: $60
Credits: 9
by Rabbi David Wolpe
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?
Cost: $50
Credits: 9
by P. Scott Richards, PhD, Allen E. Bergin, PhD
Clinicians interested in the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy will find the second edition of A Spiritual Strategy For Counseling and Psychotherapy most helpful as it presents a purposeful theoretical framework, spirituality assessment strategies and therapeutic interventions.
Cost: $54
Credits: 9
edited by Mary M. Brabeck, PhD
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.
Cost: $45
Credits: 9
by Gary Chapman, PhD
Writing from a Christian therapy perspective, Gary Chapman, PhD, offers helpful insights into why people get angry, what can be done about it and how to help others with their anger.
Cost: $45
Credits: 9
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
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.
Cost: $45
Credits: 9
by P. Scott Richards, PhD, Randy K. Hardman, PhD, Michael E. Berrett, PhD
There is growing empirical evidence that spiritual approaches to treating clients are as effective, and sometimes more effective, than secular ones, particularly with spiritually or religiously oriented patients. The book will show how a spiritual and theistic perspective of healing and change can enrich therapies currently in practice for eating disorders, including individual, group, and family therapy as well as 12-step programs.
Cost: $55
Credits: 9
by Donald P. Hall
This book uses models of body, mind, and spirit to describe the problem of depression and what can be done to overcome it. The ‘brain’ models are constructed of cellular structures and chemical networks. The ‘mind’ models are built on a foundation of three basic emotional needs.
Cost: $49
Credits: 10
Edward R. Canda, Ph.D. and Leola Dyrud Furman, Ph.D.
In this well-received second edition Edward R. Canda and Leola Dyrud Furman, update and build on their highly regarded initial offering. Again, they provide scientific and heartfelt information that will be helpful to social workers and other clinicians interested in the ethical application of Spirituality and people helping.
Cost: $65
Credits: 10
by Terrence Real
Terrence Real helps couples negotiate more mutuality in their relationships with the principles of 'Relationship Empowerment', which embodies a 21st century worldview. Real's premise is that both men and women have tried to establish a mutual relationship using old models of power and roles. The book is full of practical insight as well as tools to help your clients gain their voice as they each seek intimacy.
Cost: $60
Credits: 10
Robert D. Margolis, PhD and Joan E. Zweben, PhD
This NEW:SECOND EDITION 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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 10
by Martin E. P. Seligman
The course, Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman equips 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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 10
by Blaine J Fowers, Ph.D.
Virtue and Psychology offers a fresh and groundbreaking understanding of how psychologists can help people to flourish as human beings by cultivating their best selves. Virtues are character strengths—such as generosity, loyalty, and courage—that make it possible for individuals and relationships to flourish. The virtue perspective provides a deeper, richer account of many psychological topics than current theory is able to generate and can significantly enrich wide areas of current theory and practice.
Cost: $50
Credits: 10
by Dr. Arnold M. Washton and Dr. Joan E. Zweben
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.
Cost: $50
Credits: 10
by Bauer, Kilbourne, Greenwald, Ludman, and McBride
Overcoming Bipolar Disorder is a self-guided workbook clinicians will want to master, reference, and recommend to their clients with bipolar disorders to assist them living well in spite of the symptoms.
Cost: $50
Credits: 10
by Irvin Yalom, M.D.
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.
Cost: $49
Credits: 10
by Beverly Engel
In this breakthrough book, Beverly Engel, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject of 'emotional abuse' defines what it is and what to do about it. The text will help clinicians identify emotional abuse and how to find the roots of the behavior.
Cost: $75
Credits: 11
Dr. Timothy Clinton and Dr. George Ohlschlager
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...
Cost: $55
Credits: 11
by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman
In the Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman offers parents, teachers and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism--dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback-and depression
Cost: $55
Credits: 11
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
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.
Cost: $55
Credits: 11
edited by William R. Miller
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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
edited by Jon D. Kassel
The psychological, physical, and spiritual damage wrought by the misuse of drugs is indisputable. However, there is a recurring debate over the causes of substance abuse that typically divides along two common assumptions: People either abuse drugs and alcohol out of sheer pleasure-seeking drives run amok or to escape or assuage aversive states of comorbid anxiety or depression.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Dr. John Townsend
Dr. John Townsend draws from the principles of his best-selling book, Boundaries and incorporates new and exciting concepts from a Christian faith perspective that will help them practically guide parents in the task of parenting teenagers. The course will provide valuable tools in the therapist’s ability to help parents set healthy limits, realistic consequences, and to be loving and caring while establishing these rules.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Dan Allender
The Wounded Heart is a book that visits the painful realities of sexual abuse with intellectual accuracy, spiritual integrity and compassion. Writing from a Christian evangelical perspective, Allender explains in detail the processes of seduction, vulnerability, injury and healing.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III
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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD
Clinicians will find the 10 step treatment program presented in this book invaluable in the diagnosis and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD). This well researched, proven approach has helped many move beyond the anxiety that was keeping them stuck. In addition to clinicians, clients will benefit from reading and completing the numerous and helpful exercises.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Ernest Becker, PhD
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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D.
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.
Cost: $60
Credits: 12
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
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.
Cost: $65
Credits: 13
by Martin E.P. Seligman
'This Book Will Help You Flourish', promises Martin Seligman at the start of this new text, his first book in 10 years and the first to introduce his dynamic new concept of 'Well-Being'. In the genre of Positive Psychology this book is about ‘raising the bar’ for the human condition.
Cost: $65
Credits: 13
Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt
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.
Cost: $65
Credits: 13
edited by Froma Walsh, PhD
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. The course is on the 1st edition (1999), paperback printing 2003.
Cost: $70
Credits: 14
by Duncan, Hubble, Miller, and Wampold
The Second Edition of The Heart & Soul of Change: Delivering What Works in Therapy, analyzes the most recent research on what works in therapeutic practice and provides practical guidance on how a therapist can accurately “deliver what works in therapy.” This edition has the same pragmatic focus as the first edition but with a larger breadth of coverage and new chapters on both youth psychotherapy and substance abuse treatment.
Cost: $75
Credits: 15
by David J. Miklowitz, Ph.D.
This is the SECOND EDITION (NEW): of Dr. Miklowitz's popular and professionally acclaimed primer on diagnosing and treating Bipolar Disorders. This edition updates the clician on current diagnostic techniques, how to lay the foundation for effective treatment, the efficacy of medications and psychotherapy, relapse prevention and practical strategies for staying well. This edition has added a chapter exclusively focused on the female experience, and treatment for a Bipolar Disorder.
Cost: $60
Credits: 15
by Robert W. Firestone, PhD, Lisa A. Firestone, PhD, Joyce Catlett, MA
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.
