Bonding Patterns is a cutting-edge theory on how relationship patterns in couples form and develop. This course will introduce the Bonding Patterns approach and explain its application in marital therapy.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This course explains the role of implicit and explicit bias in defining the systems that provide physical and mental health care in America. This course also includes strategies for individual professionals, and professionals in collaboration, to use in order to reduce disparities in access to and delivery of physical and mental health care services.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This course will cover the basics of MI including the Spirit, OARS, the four processes with a particular focus on the aspects of the spirit which help to establish a therapeutic relationship with a client/patient. Also highlighted will be research on the characteristics of effective psychotherapists (and how they are addressed in MI). Additionally, anticipated changes that will be included in the fourth edition of Motivational Interviewing by Miller and Rollinick will be discussed.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Dreams are mirrors of our inner process. Utilizing the Psychology of the Selves theory we will demonstrate how dreams are truly the perfect guides revealing which parts of our clients are in harmony and which are out of balance affecting their lives. We will further demonstrate various ways you can teach your clients to recall their dreams’ content. We will teach at least five ways to process dreams offering a deeper understanding of inner life according to the dream’s messages communicated from the unconscious. We will also demonstrate and explain different ways you can teach your clients to work with their dreams’ content.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This workshop will enhance your professional skills to help your clients free themselves from self-criticism, lift obstacles from their life path and almost immediately enhance their relationships. By transforming this inner critical voice into a supporter, your clients will learn how to stop being their own worst enemy.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

Reports of suspected child neglect make up more than three-quarters of all reports made to child protective services in any given year; 6 times more than reports of sexual abuse, and 5 times more than reports of physical abuse. However, neglect reports are least likely to be substantiated after investigation. 
The reality is that reporters of suspected child maltreatment struggle with appropriately identifying and reporting this type of maltreatment. This session will explore the legal and ethical obligations of professional reporters, especially as they relate to the concept of child neglect. 
Various types of child neglect, including physical neglect, medical neglect and educational neglect will be explored, along with a significant conversation around parental supervision and the use of corporal punishment.

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Expressions and gestures of love can inspire solutions in relationships. However, when these expressions and gestures transcend into obsession, they create immense suffering. We will examine some of the reasons why this occurs and more often in women and offer psychotherapeutic interventions enhancing the recovery from love-obsession.

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Loneliness is universal. Loneliness is the main underlined cause for obsessions and multiple regretful actions in our clients. All efforts to eliminate loneliness fall short and yet, these efforts never cease. This course, which is based on the book, Responding to Loneliness and Longing, attempts to explain the origin of loneliness from a psycho-spiritual angle and thus offering our clients alternative ways to perceive and handle this universal state of profound uncomfortability.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

The course is based on the theory of the Psychology of the Selves. It focuses on identifying the various parts of an individual who do the eating; it teaches professionals how to work with clients with eating disorders to help them develop control over these various personality parts and how to master the necessary skills needed to deal with the “new person” as natural weight is reached and maintained. Natural weight is where one is comfortable without inner conflict about their body image.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.

This presentation will invite participants to not only consider what are ethical issues, but also explore how we go about making ethical decisions. This includes our own possible reluctance to reflect on our own ethical vulnerabilities, considerations and approaches to ethical decision making, and offer a framework for making ethical decisions. Strategies to minimize vulnerability to ethical dilemmas and liability will also be offered.

You must receive 70% or more to pass the test. You will have three attempts to pass.