Course Offerings

This training will review the etiology and symptoms of self-harmful and suicidal impulses and their impact on the client's thinking, emotions, and behaviors.

This course reviews the impact of vicarious trauma, countertransference, and compassion fatigue on the burnout process. 

This course will review the etiology and symptoms of the Cluster B Personality Disorders and their impact upon the client's thinking, emotions, and behaviors.  

This course will review the dynamics that exist when service providers encounter individuals with various “subclinical” mental health symptoms ranging from trauma-inducing environmental challenges to those of mental health disorders and substance use disorders.

This training will focus on complex ethical and boundary issues and problem-solving with challenging client dynamics, new technology, and varying roles in the behavioral health field.

This course will review the etiology and symptoms of trauma and the gender-specific impact upon the client's thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Issues such as societal pressures and clinical prevalence of co-occurring psychological symptoms and substance use by gender will be discussed.

This course will review the new diagnostic criteria in the DSM-V related to substance use disorders as well as each of the major categories of the substances of abuse. The substances reviewed will include narcotics, the stimulants, sedative-hypnotics including alcohol, hallucinogens, as well as the latest designer drugs.

This course will cover an overview of the diagnoses of ADD and ADHD in childhood through adulthood. 

This course will cover the most prevalent DSM-5 diagnoses present in the mental health and substance using populations which present in treatment and criminal justice populations. 

This course will review the development of social media and its impact on the socialization process. The issues of “present” relationships versus “virtual” relationships and their impact on psychological development will be addressed.

This course specifically covers the most current information regarding domestic violence as perpetrated by those across the gender spectrum.  Effective means of intervention with, and support of, the victims will be discussed.