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The following courses are available online and can be taken for CEU credits. Click on the appropriate link(s) for further information. You will be able to register, pay fees, take the course, take the test(s) all online. Your test will be scored online and, if you reach criteria, you will also be able to print out your certificate(s) directly. Courses have been approved for CEU credit by the organizations listed. In some states, a copy of your certificate sent to your licensing board may be accepted directly for your re-licensure. If in doubt, please call your board for more details. In Wyoming, certificate copies are accepted by the Wyoming State Mental Health Professions Licensing Board.
•From Crisis to Recovery: Strategic Planning for Response, Resilience and Recovery
Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of major disasters, critical incidents and other events that have had major impacts on our world. The 2004 tsunami, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to affect millions of lives daily. Potential events such as Avian Flu pandemic, global warming and the threats of spreading unrest in the Middle East are concerns that weigh heavily on all. Resilience, recovery from crises and how to prepare communities, learn from past experience, and strategically plan for future events are all activities that involve the education, training and time of first responders and mental health professionals.
Natural and man-made disasters present challenges for first responders and behavioral health professionals. Crises can affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. Planning and coordination are important components of the response to crises, disasters, and critical incidents.
Some additional variables important in responding include cultural knowledge and sensitivity. We need to respond appropriately within a culture not our own, whether locally, nationally, or internationally. The purpose of a behavioral health plan is to ensure an efficient, coordinated and effective response to the behavioral health needs of the affected population during times of disasters and other critical incidents.
What is a Crisis?
In order for an event to qualify as a “crisis”, there must be some sense of disruption to one’s sense of balance in life; a failure of one’s usual coping mechanisms to re-establish equilibrium; and some evidence of functional impairment, such as an inability to concentrate; memory difficulties; sleep disturbances, etc. In a crisis, coping skills fail to re-establish a sense of balance and control in life. People can be at a loss as to where to turn for help.
Although the terms “crisis” and “emergency” may be used interchangeably in the context of counseling, it is useful to distinguish between the two (Chrzanowski, 1977). In psychodynamic theory, “crisis” refers to a turning point or a period when new demands on the ego can’t be met successfully by the usual coping mechanisms. At these times, powerful emotions, such as anxiety and guilt, are intense, and cannot continue for long. The possible outcomes of a crisis can be formulated in general terms as:
Return to the previous stateGrowth process, with an increase in ego strength
Destructive process (i.e. suicide, homicide, assault) or the emergence of new psychopathology
To complicate matters, crises may resolve into some combination of the above. Erikson (1959) referred to the universal developmental phases of life as “developmental crises”, and to individual traumatic events as “accidental crises”. Caplan (1964) provided examples of the latter, such as “the death of a loved person; loss or change of a job; a threat to bodily integrity by illness, accident, or surgical operation; or change of role due to developmental or sociocultural transitions, such as going to college, getting married, and becoming a parent.” In psychotherapy, acting out and transference and counter-transference distortions are additional common sources of crises.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After taking this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe what disasters are and how they affect people and their communities.
• Identify how the community and individuals respond to and recover from disasters.
• Define Resilience and explain how it affects recovery by individuals and communities.
• Identify activities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters.
• Define Strategic Planning and explain how it is helpful in mitigating and responding to disasters, critical incidents and other crises.
• Describe the mental health services provided to people affected by disasters, critical incidents and other crises.
• Identify and explain how disaster mental health professionals are affected by responding to disasters, critical incidents and other crises.
• Describe the roles mental health professionals play in Disaster Services and Critical Incident Stress Management.
• Identify the stages of disaster recovery and how resilience affects each stage.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of disaster induced stress and emotional trauma and how resilience mitigates outcomes.
• Define and explain the role and importance of Strategic Planning in responding to critical incidents and disasters.
• Describe disaster mental health professional responses to disaster related crisis situations/scenarios.
• Define “Return to Equilibrium” and explain its role in the recovery process following a disaster or critical incident.
• Explain how to use a number of stress reduction techniques.
12 CEUs Approved by the:
• American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists - www.psychceu.com maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• Board of Registered Nursing (#13620)
• California Board of Behavioral Science (#1540)
• California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts for continuing education courses that are provided by APA approved sponsors
• Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (BAP #753 )
• NAADAC - The Association for Addiction Professionals (#478)
• National Association of Social Workers (#886382116)
• National Board for Certified Counselors (#6055)
• Ohio Counselor and Social Work & Marriage and Family Therapist CPE (#RCS110610 RTX010701)
• Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (#52526)
• The Texas Board of Social Work Examiners (#CS3473)www.psychceu.com maintains responsibility for the program.
To register for this course and get further information, go to: http://www.psychceu.com/Doherty/crisis_index.asp
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Crisis Intervention Training For Disaster Responders
The purpose of this course is to provide training for mental health professionals who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. This course prepares the disaster mental health professional to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. The warning signs and symptoms in both disaster victims and workers are explored together with stages, strategies and interventions for recovery.
This course will introduce you to disasters, the community response, the role of first responders, and the role of Disaster Mental Health Services and Critical Incident Stress management responders and teams. It will provide a brief overview of Disaster Mental Health Services and Critical Incident Stress Management and their roles in responding to the needs of both victims and disaster workers. The role of critical incident stress management will be presented and discussed both for disasters and for critical incidents. This includes discussion about war, terrorism and the follow-up responses by mental health professionals. This course is designed to help participants identify appropriate methods for activating Disaster Mental Health Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) for disaster mental health services for victims, co-workers, and self.
The content of this course includes general theory and models of Disaster Mental Health, Critical Incident Stress Management, crisis intervention techniques commonly used in these situations, supportive research, and practice of approaches used in responding to the victims, workers and communities affected by disasters, critical incidents and terrorism threats.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After taking this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe what disasters are and how they affect people and their communities.
• Identify how the community, including voluntary and community organizations, government, business, and labor, work together to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.
• Identify activities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters.
• Describe the mental health services provided to people affected by disaster.
• Identify how disaster mental health professionals provide these services.
• Describe the roles mental health professionals play in Disaster Services and Critical Incident Stress Management.
• Identify the skills and abilities you have that you would like to apply as a volunteer with Disaster Services and Critical Incident Stress Management as a team member.
• Define 'crisis intervention" as it relates to disaster situations and critical incidents.
• Identify the stages of disaster recovery and problems associated with each stage.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of disaster induced stress and emotional trauma.
• Discuss and be able to recognize disaster's and critical incident's effects and impacts on victims and workers, including posttraumatic stress.
• Identify common strategies for coping with disaster and critical incident related stress.
• Demonstrate basic disaster mental health professional responses to disaster related crisis situations/scenarios
12 CEUs Approved by the:
• American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists - www.psychceu.com maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• Board of Registered Nursing (#13620)
• California Board of Behavioral Science (#1540)
• California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts for continuing education courses that are provided by APA approved sponsors
• Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (BAP #753 )
• NAADAC - The Association for Addiction Professionals (#478)
• National Association of Social Workers (#886382116)
• National Board for Certified Counselors (#6055)
• Ohio Counselor and Social Work & Marriage and Family Therapist CPE (#RCS110610 RTX010701)
• Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (#52526)
• The Texas Board of Social Work Examiners (#CS3473)www.psychceu.com maintains responsibility for the program.
To register for this course and get further information, go to: http://www.psychceu.com/CISM/cism_index.asp