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Assessment and Diagnosis in Community Mental Health
In the CMS environment, assessing and diagnosing mental health issues needs to take into the community, the culture of the patient, and socioeconomic factors. Understanding how these play an active role in the daily life of the patient helps the therapist understand nuances and also increase awareness about access (or lack of access) to treatment resources.
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Ethical Community-Based Practice with Children
Do you work with children in the community setting? This course explores some of the unique dynamics and ethical considerations that you’ll encounter working with a young population in the community-based practice.
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Setting Healthy Boundaries in Community Mental Health
Boundaries are essential in community mental health — both to define the limits of your own work and to establish healthy relationships with those you serve and with the community you work in. But boundaries have personal, clinical, and cultural dimensions. It’s important to be aware.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Clinical Supervision and Practice
COVID-19 made dramatic changes in how we approach therapy. Before the pandemic, as a whole, therapists were tentative to accept innovations like telehealth sessions and digital tools as supports. The therapeutic alliance is the most powerful force in counseling… How can it possibly duplicate that bond? The same assumptions were made about clinical supervision. But virtual supervision has improved access for many supervisees along with providing new challenges, too.
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Medication-Assisted Treatment in Substance Use Disorders and Recovery Services
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a holistic addiction treatment that brings together counseling and the use of medications to stabilize brain chemistry and reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
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Empowerment and Advocacy in Mental Health: A Conversation About Getting Licensed
57% of Masters-level therapists never get licensed. In this course we’ll discuss this staggering statistic, explore the reasons why this happens, and discuss what we can do during the course of clinical supervision to change this trajectory and remove the barriers between graduation and the exam.
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Establishing Good Rapport in Community Mental Health
Community mental health is a challenging and rewarding environment that requires particular skills, awareness of important sociological issues, and cultural humility. In this course, we’ll explore the role of CMHs in various community settings and discuss important issues for working with diverse populations in the midst of where they live, work, and interact with each other.
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Mandated Reporting
Mandated reporting laws require mental health providers to report suspected abuse or neglect of vulnerable populations, including children, elderly individuals, and individuals with disabilities. Clinicians will learn about mandated reporting requirements as well as some of the issues they need to keep front of mind as they build relationships with their clients or are faced with mandatory reporting situations. We’ll also address how to approach these situations in the context of clinical supervision.
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Building Good Relationships in Clinical Supervision
Sophia Sills-Tailor, Ph.D., LPC, LPCMH, NCC and Rachel McCrickard, LMFT and CEO of Motivo participate in this panel discussion that focuses on helping both supervisors and supervisees develop good relationships in their clinical supervision by focusing on some of the key dynamics unique to virtual supervision.
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Working with Children in Foster Care
Children in foster care are dealing with dramatic changes, grief, and trauma. In this panel discussion facilitated by Dr. Carla Smith, PhD LCSW LMFT — Dr. Stephen Ford, PhD, LPCC-S and Noelle James LICSW talk about the unique mental health needs of both children and caregivers in the foster care system — including how trauma, attachment issues, and other emotional and behavioral challenges impact their situations.
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Assessment and Early Intervention for Autism Spectrum and Mental Health Diagnoses
This course expands the conversation beyond treatment teams to support families and prioritize the needs of children, adolescents, and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder or mental health dual diagnoses. As social workers, therapists, and counselors, we do not have the skillset of BCBA’s when treating ASD and other related behavioral disorders. Helayna Banks, Tyra Johnson, and Dr. Carla Smith provide unique perspective to BCBA’s role in treatment and the specifics around assessment and diagnosis.
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Examining White Privilege in Pursuit of Cultural Humility
Conversations about racial privilege are integral to developing a clinical practice of cultural humility. This course talks about the intention of acknowledging this privilege daily in order to ignite change. We will learn how to address privilege and talk about it in a clinical setting as well as model for our supervisees.
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Expressive Arts in Clinical Practice
Creative expression in therapy - through art, dance, drama, music, writing - is actually an ancient Egyptian tradition that gained significance in healthcare through the 20th century. Today, we see expressive therapies being used from private practice to medical facilities to schools and beyond. In this course, we discuss the different types of expressive therapies including dance and art with two expert panelists in the field.
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Clinical Foundations: Empathy, reflective listening, and the art of asking good questions
Therapists know the importance of empathy, listening, and asking questions. However, sometimes the importance of clinical demands overshadow these basic clinical skills we may have learned ‘way back when’. This course is a refresher to remind clinicians at all levels about the importance of empathic listening and the art of asking good questions.
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Cultural Humility & Social Justice in Clinical Practice
In this course we discuss the values embedded in using a framework of cultural humility in mental health clinical practices. We explore the value of leading with curiosity and the benefits of ‘not knowing’. This conversation helps to make sense of terms, along with practice of cultural humility that lead to social justice through mental healthcare.
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Racial Disparities with Black Clients in Substance Use Treatment
How can counselors assist and better serve clients of color with substance use disorder? How can counselors apply culturally inclusive care for persons diagnosed with substance use disorder? Awareness, knowledge, sensitivity, inclusivity, equal access, and opportunity are essential to fair substance treatment services. Dr. Carla converses with Dr. Holly about her work that highlights disparities for Black people navigating substance use and mental health treatment.
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LGBTQIA2S+ Affirming Therapy and Supervision
Using trauma-informed, affirming practices with LGBTQIA2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit, plus) clients and supervisees is essential to their wellbeing. With this discussion, we aim to highlight the complexities of sexuality and mental health. Further, the panelists will discuss ways mental health providers can go beyond awareness and sensitivity to give responsive care.
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Working with Gender Diverse Clients
In this discussion, we dig into the responsibility we have as mental health providers to be exploratory and responsive in our practice with trans, gender queer and non-binary/conforming clients. People use different terms to describe their gender and identity so it is our job to join our clients in continuous dialogue around appropriate terms and defining what those terms mean for each client.
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Addressing Racial Trauma in Clinical Practice
In this course, we discuss racial trauma - ways to assess it and walk alongside clients and students as they experience it. We will address definitions, symptoms, and how to promote healing. This course provides multiple perspectives on racial trauma and its prevalence and impact on society.
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Clinical Foundations: Relationship Therapy Refresher
This course looks at the ever-evolving world of relationships from outdated language to the need for cultural curiosity outside of heteronormative culture. This conversation is crucial to be having during this time as relationships can be more than two people and the topic is growing in complexity. Clinicians will learn about how to address relational problems and intimacy details in a thorough, responsive manner.
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Supervision Training Series: Administrative vs. Restorative Clinical Supervision
This course will provide helpful tips and dialogue about providing quality clinical supervision to providers in community-based settings. We will explore the differences between administrative and clinical supervision, with emphasis on ways supervisors and their supervisees can maximize supervision to meet the growing needs of clients within underserved communities.
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Personal Ethics and Value-Based Clinical Practice: Reimagining Self Care for Clinicians
Personal ethics and values help guide mental health providers through clinical decision-making. They are practical tools we often use to navigate complex situations and, hopefully, lead us to best practices. While often represented as the same thing, ethics and values are distinct and influence providers differently. This discussion will help mental health providers clarify the differences of the terms, their utility in clinical practice, and uncover the ways self-care helps to clear the way for personal ethics and values to positively influence clinical practice.
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Foundations of Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy empowers clients to re-author their stories and look at situations from a different perspective. Listen to a conversation between three narrative therapists as they discuss the foundations, techniques, and goals of this approach. This course offers an in-depth look into Narrative Therapy from origin to execution.
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The Basics and Ethical Considerations of Virtual Therapy
This course examines the benefits and risks of virtual therapy. Virtual therapy has been a must over the pandemic and continue to grow and evolve in the mental health industry. Randi Williams, Dr. Letitia Browne-James, and Dr. Carla review what to consider when conducting virtual therapy and how to make the most of technology in practice.
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Disarming Implicit Bias in Clinical Practice
This course covers the topic of bias and how it affects your therapeutic practice and everyday life. Disarming our biases is and will continue to be a relevant conversation as it is a lifelong journey for any therapist that wishes to provide a safe space for their clients. Clinicians will discover more about their own bias and opportunities to challenge these in a myriad of ways.
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Clinical Foundations: Boundaries and Multiple Relationships
Boundaries are an important part of the therapeutic relationship. Not only are therapists bound by ethical standards of professional boundaries, our brains tend to use them to determine psychological, emotional, and physical safety. Tom Baier, Desiree Compton, and Rachel McCrickard explore the many facets of boundaries from how to set them to responses if they are crossed.
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Crisis Management and Suicidality
This course identifies the methods used by crisis team experts when handling a case with suicidality or history of violence. These skills are essential to early career clinicians and they are not always included in typical course curriculum. Clinicians will learn how to prepare for a session with clients in crisis, ask questions in crisis moments, and what to look for an initial assessment and ongoing.
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Adlerian Theory and Practice
Adlerian theory emphasizes each individual’s need for connection and belonging. Yet, it seems the last few years have highlighted deep-rooted social unrest and public health crises that have threatened both of these for most clients. This course will provide an overview of Adlerian theory and therapy, it’s concepts and techniques, as well as concrete ways to use it to improve therapeutic alliance and client outcomes as a result.
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Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice
This course defines trauma-informed care and illustrates various body-based and other approaches to practice with clients. Trauma looks different from every angle so it is pivotal as a mental health professional to understand trauma-informed care and build it into your everyday life. Tanisha Robinson, Dr. Amy Morgan, and Dr. Carla share their own definition of trauma-informed care as well as self-care methods to maintain longevity in today’s landscape.
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Supervision Training Series: Current Issues in Remote Clinical Supervision
This panel discusses the ins and outs of virtual clinical supervision including the pain points as well as the advantages and ways to utilize the technology. Whether your state allows 100% virtual clinical supervision or only 50%, there are helpful tools in this course to show you how to build rapport with your client and develop a working relationship. Dr. Carla facilitates a conversation with Dr. Susan Branco and Rachel McCrickard as they share what has worked with their supervisees and their insight into the mental health industry as a whole.
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Supervision Training Series: Addressing Racial Bias in Clinical Supervision
This course defines the meaning of implicit bias by looking at the cause and effect of these biases in the mental health practice. Dr. Carla Smith, Dr. Letitia Browne-James, and Dr. Jasmine Ferrill discuss the importance of first acknowledging the biases within yourself in order to help others bring awareness to their own biases. These clinicians provide insight and tools to bring cultural awareness into both your supervision and daily practice.
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Cultural Humility
In this course, we explore cultural humility practices in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Dr. Adam Froerer, LMFT and Cecil Walker, LMFT give us actionable steps to integrating these two practices in our work with clients. In particular, they discuss ways clinicians can consider large social contexts in their work, while ‘making themselves small’ in pursuit of building therapeutic relationships that foster change.
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