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1. Apply the principles of “bottom-up” processing to resolving traumatic experiences
2. Recognizing differences between “top-down” and “bottom-up” processing
3. Differentiate between the multiple systems involved in explicit and implicit memory
4. Analyzing and describing the basic energy states of shutdown, hyperarousal and social engagement. In restoring self-regulation
5. Accessing the felt-sense experience of the “deep-self” in stabilizing traumatic processing
6. Address how adverse childhood experiences affect brain development, emotion regulation & cognition
7. Review attachment research as it pertains to childhood
8. Delineate current diagnostic criteria for Developmental Trauma Disorder
9. Show how and why Dissociative Disorders should not be treated with the types of exposure techniques used for PTSD Flashbacks
10. Define and describe “time capsules” as related to DID
11. Describe the use of at least two hypnotic techniques to treat DID
12. Describe the relationship between DID and hypnotic capacity
13. Define energy psychology
14. Identify EFT and TFT as two forms of energy psychology
15. Describe a physical intervention used in energy psychology protocols
16. Discuss the difference between energy psychology as a self-help approach and as a clinical intervention explain that acupoint tapping reduces threat arousal in the amygdala
17. Define the Dual Attunement Frame (relational and Neurobiological attunement together) in Brainspotting
18. Describe Outside Window, Inside Window Brainspotting and Gazespotting and how they are determined
19. Discuss how the processing in Brainspotting is facilitated by observing the focused, sequential, internal experience of the client
20. Name one physiological sign of likely PTSD
21. Identify a life stage associated with the subsequent development of PTSD after experiencing a Category A traumatic event
22. Name at least one clinician of the post WWII period identified with the development of the PTSD diagnosis
23. Define secondary traumatization

Session 1: Conference Introduction(Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.,and Steve Frankel, Ph.D., J.D., ABPP (Clinical & Forensic))

Session 2: How the Living, Sensing Body Resolves Trauma, Establishes Safety and Restores Resilience: Clinical Implications (Peter Levine, Ph.D.)

• Therapeutic work with traumatized individuals, and those suffering from deeply distressing emotions, can be greatly facilitated by utilizing bottom-up (body awareness) in concert with top-down (“psychological”) processing. We find that a potent fulcrum for long-term change resides in accessing innate body movements and sensations associated with the “true-self.” Then from that potent and enduring platform, individuals can be guided gradually to touch into, and transform, traumatic experiences. Effective therapy helps people move from shutdown (numbness) and hyperarousal (overwhelm) to “healthy aggression,” safety, and the capacity for intimate relationship.

• This presentation presents a new use of Somatic Experiencing to help heal the fragmentation often caused by dissociation and personality division. Ego-State Therapy is one of the primary approaches used to heal inner conflict, dissociation, and other posttraumatic symptoms. Combining Somatic Experiencing with Ego-State Therapy provides more depth and permanence to this process, promoting healing from the bottom level up, assisting with self-regulation, and managing and promoting sensorimotor integration through completed somatic patterns. The video demonstration that illustrates this approach features an adult client struggling to find balance between autonomy and connection in her life. Using a somatic approach to Ego-State Therapy, she resolved many of the physical, emotional, and spiritual conflicts related to a near-drowning experience at the age of four. The discussion following the video accents the strategies that helped complete somatic patterns, facilitated emotional regulation and promoted embodied personality integration.

• This presentation highlights a new method of integrating EMDR into clinical practice with an attachment focus to address the challenges of relational wounds. Her method is created from a combination of Resource Tapping (creating new neural pathways through imagination and bilateral stimulation) and the process of targeting traumatic memories via EMDR. Dr. Parnell will discuss five guiding principles for her work: How to foster client safety; how to develop and nurture the therapeutic relationship; how to use a client-centered perspective; how to create reparative neural networks through resource tapping; and how to use a modified EMDR protocol to focus on traumatic memories whenever needed. She will discuss the clinical implications of this approach with clients who suffer from attachment difficulties and the trauma of abuse and neglect. Her video demonstration to follow will illustrate the nuances as well as the depth of this approach.

• Every year, there are ten times as many children in the US reported to be victims of domestic violence, neglect and abuse than combat soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan diagnosed with PTSD. However, these children live in a diagnostic void because the current DSM-IV conceptualization of PTSD does not reflect the symptoms experienced by the vast majority of these children. For when trauma occurs within the context of what is supposed to be a safe interpersonal attachment, the trauma picture takes on a profoundly different shape and has profound effects on brain development and the formation of the self. So, instead, abused and neglected children receive such widely disparate diagnoses as bipolar disorder, conduct disorder, ADHD, and other anxiety disorders. All of these diagnoses are etiologically unrelated to trauma and lead to pharmacological and behavioral control at the expense of dealing with the fear, shame, terror and rage that derive from real threats to these childrens survival. The lack of proper diagnosis also has profound implications on insurance reimbursement, treatment development and clinical research. Thus these children are condemned to receive treatments that are likely to be ineffective and therefore put them at risk to grow up to be unproductive, expensive, potentially dangerous, and long-suffering members of our society.

• This presentation will focus on the restorative power of understanding the adaptive function of stress reactions as an important adjunct to treatment. By deconstructing the biobehavioral features of stress reactions, both client and therapist are better informed in their journey to a successful outcome. The presentation will emphasize the role of “neuroception,” a neurophysiological process through which our nervous system evaluates risk in the environment, without awareness and often independent of a cognitive narrative. Trauma may reset neuroception to protect us from others when there is no danger. The presentation will inform the therapist about how to assess the deleterious consequences of trauma-related experiences by understanding the adaptive psychological, behavioral, and health features of each of the three “Polyvagal” visceral response strategies (i.e., social engagement, mobilization, and immobilization ) and how successful therapeutic interventions promote a neuroception of safety with the consequential improvements in mental and physical health by enabling mobilization and immobilization to occur without fear.

• This presentation will focus on a 73 year old woman whom I have been treating for over 20 years. She has done exceedingly well in treatment, as evidenced by her level of functioning. However, she suffers from a substantial number of child parts who are “stuck in time capsules.” They are in flashbacks. Their situations significantly impact her personal functioning. In this session, several alters emerge, are engaged utilizing hypnotic techniques, and show immediate benefit from these interventions.

• Tapping on selected acupuncture points while targeted scenes are mentally activated can eliminate maladaptive fear responses to traumatic memories and related cues. Known as energy psychology, research supports the efficacy of the approach for alleviating PTSD and other difficult conditions with surprising speed and power. Disaster response teams, from Rwanda to Newtown, have been using it with striking success. Clinicians new to the method are routinely impressed by the way that incorporating tapping protocols into the modalities they are already using boosts their effectiveness. This seminar will show brief video clips of four combat veterans prior to treatment, during treatment, and post-treatment, and a longer session that illustrates the technique in greater detail with a trauma-induced phobia. Discussion will include clinical considerations in using energy psychology and possible mechanisms of action.

• Brainspotting may be viewed from several perspectives. It is a positive, client centered approach which develops and holds the dual attunement frame to promote the clients innate self-healing capacities. Brainspotting is also a phenomenological approach where the therapist observes every aspect of the clients experience with curiosity, and without imposing any judgment or point of view. Third, brainspotting is a creative, integrative model which invites the therapist to make use of their own wisdom and previous training. Brainspotting can be applied to performance and creativity expansion as well as to trauma.

• This presentation will offer an integrative approach to stabilization in clients with dissociation, ranging from Complex PTSD, DDNOS, and DID. Since childhood abuse and neglect interfere with normal development across wide areas of functioning, clients are generally not yet able to integrate traumatic memories. Instead they suffer from flashbacks, intrusions from, or switching to, child parts that are overwhelmed and not oriented to the present, have serious unresolved inner conflicts, and struggle with daily life. Thus, early treatment is most effective when it focuses on supporting the client to overcome developmental deficits, using a phase-oriented, relational model. There are many helpful models for treating trauma, but many of them do not include ways to address the underlying dissociative organization of the clients inner experience. We will focus on an eclectic, integrative approach to stabilize dissociative clients, which incorporates many therapeutic approaches I have found helpful over 30 years of experience. I use a wide variety of relational, cognitive, mindfulness, affective, somatic, ego state, psychodynamic, EMDR, and hypnotic techniques. A demonstration of some of these techniques and their positive effects will be shown in a video of a session with a client who had DDNOS.

• Studies published in the past few years have shown that energy psychology techniques such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and TFT (Thought Field Therapy) meet APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) criteria as “empirically validated treatments” for PTSD. Previously, APA reviews had identified PTSD as a “treatment-resistant” condition that often worsens over time as neural plasticity reinforces the pathways in the brain that conduct the signals of emotional trauma. The evidence from these recent clinical trials indicates that energy psychology may efficiently remediate clinical levels of PTSD in treatment time frames ranging from 4 to 10 sessions. This presentation reviews the evidence in the context of the APA criteria. It then presents clinical case histories, discusses the physiological mechanisms at work, such as reduced levels of stress hormones like cortisol and reduced levels of brain waves such as high beta, identifies comorbidities such as depression and anxiety that improve after successful PTSD treatment, and suggests ways in which these therapies may be applied in settings such as Veterans Administration hospitals, managed health care plans, and outpatient clinics.

• The signature symptom of PTSD is the trauma memory that bursts into consciousness, whether it is as intense as a full-blown flashback or as insidious as the odor of a rapists aftershave. I prefer to establish a sense of collegiality and comfort before tackling the trauma memory, but sooner or later, survivor and therapist must look at the ghosts of the past together. One of my long term Vietnam vet PTSD patients, Terry, agreed to have several of our sessions filmed as we approached the end of treatment. The film, produced by Victor Yalom, runs over two hours and is available for purchase. Ill show a short and a long excerpt, illustrating a general approach to treatment and a detailed discussion of “Ochbergs Counting Method.” The Counting Method helps reduce the intensity and the frequency of unwanted, intrusive traumatic memory.

Bessel A. Van der Kolk, M.D., is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.

Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater and EMDR.

He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and president of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific and educational projects.

His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.

Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a professor at Boston University School of Medicine, the Director of the Trauma Center, and the National Complex Trauma Network. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. van der Kolk receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is a distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland, and is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute. Dr. Porges served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published approximately 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. His research has been cited in more than 50,000 peer-review publications. In 1994, Dr. Porges proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.

He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2017), Polyvagal Safety (Norton, 2021), co-author with Seth Porges of Our Body Polyvagal World (Norton, 2023), and co-editor with Deb Dana of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). Dr. Porges is also the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol™, which currently is used by approximately 3,000 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Stephen Porges has employment relationships with Indiana University Bloomington and the University of North Carolina. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Porges receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He receives royalties from Integrated Learning Systems/Unyte. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Stephen Porges is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He holds a patent on Televagal equipment. Dr. Porges is co-owner of Polyvagal Music, LLC launching in 2024.

Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethnopolitical warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in the area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of body psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). Levine was also honored as the recipient of the 2020 Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Peter Levine is the founder and president of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, the president and editorial director of Ergos Institute Press, and receives a consulting fee from the Meadows Addiction Center. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Levine receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Peter Levine is a senior clinical fellow and advisor to the Meadows Addiction Treatment Center. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Humanistic Psychological Association, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Laurel Parnell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR. One of the world's leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she is the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping. Dr. Parnell has served on the faculty of the California Institute for Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University. She is the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma, Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment, A Therapist's Guide to EMDR and Tapping In. Dr. Parnell keynotes conferences, trains clinicians in EMDR, and teaches workshops internationally on Attachment-Focused EMDR, Rewiring the Addicted Brain and Resource Tapping. Learn more about Dr. Parnell at www.parnellemdr.com. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Laurel Parnell maintains a private practice and is the director of the Parnell Institute, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Parnell receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Laurel Parnell has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Steven Frankel, Ph.D., J.D. is an ABPP certified clinical and forensic psychologist, as well as an attorney at law. Dr. Frankel has been on the faculty of the University of Southern California for over 35 years and is currently a Clinical Professor of Psychology. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) and is now an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law. He has taught courses on healthcare policy, regulation of healthcare practice and mental disorder and the law. Author of more than 50 articles and book chapters, he won the USC Award for Teaching Excellence early in his academic career.

Maggie Phillips, Ph.D., lives and works as a clinical psychologist in the Oakland Hills above the San Francisco Bay. As the author of numerous papers and articles on trauma, dissociation, ego-state therapy, hypnosis, and mind-body healing, she specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress and pain disorders. Dr. Phillips is author of Reversing Chronic Pain, Finding the Energy to Heal, Healing the Divided Self, and Body-Focused Therapy Can Help Restore Mind-Body Health.

David Grand, PhD, is the founder and developer of the groundbreaking brain-body based Brainspotting method. Through his Brainspotting Trainings, Inc., he has trained over 8,000 therapists internationally.

Dr. Grand is the author of the acclaimed book, Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change and the co-author of This is Your Brain on Sports. Dr. Grand is in demand as a lecturer on a variety of topics. He has accomplished breakthroughs in performance and creativity with his Brainspotting sports work and Brainspotting acting and singing coaching.

Dr. Grand has been widely featured in the media including The New York Times, NBC national news, The Discovery Channel, CNN, MSNBC, Sports Illustrated and Sirius Radio.

Dr. Grand still finds time for a full-time private psychotherapy and performance practice in Manhattan, NY.

“Brainspotting is a remarkable, sophisticated, flexible addition to the therapeutic toolkit of any psychotherapist.”
Norman Doidge, MD, FRCPC,, Author of The New York Times Bestseller, The Brain That Changes Itself

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. David Grand maintains a private practice and is a developer for BioLateral Sound Recordings. He is the developer of the Brainspotting method and receives compensation as a national lecturer. Dr. Grand receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. David Grand has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Frank Ochberg, M.D. is a founding board member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and recipient of their highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. He edited the first text on treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, and served on the committee that defined PTSD. He was associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health and director of the Michigan Mental Health Department. At Michigan State University, he is clinical professor of psychiatry, formerly adjunct professor of criminal justice, and adjunct professor of journalism. Ochberg developed, with colleagues, the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Gift From Within (a charity for persons with PTSD), and the Committee for Community Awareness and Protection (responding to serial-killer threats). For the latter activity, he is the first physician to receive the Law Enforcement Medal of the Sons of the American Revolution. Ochberg founded the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, served as its first chairman and now helps journalists understand traumatic stress and traumatic stress experts understand journalists. As a Red Cross volunteer, Ochberg assisted families at sites of earthquakes, floods, fires and aircraft disasters. He represents the Dart Foundation and directs their support of victimization programs around the world.

Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning author whose best-selling book, The Genie In Your Genes, has been hailed as a breakthrough in the field of epigenetics. He also wrote the latest (third) edition of The EFT Manual. He is a science blogger for The Huffington Post, the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Energy Psychology energypsychologyjournal.org, and has served as principal investigator for many clinical trials. He founded the non-profit veterans stress project to provide free PTSD counseling to returning war veterans stressproject.org. He applies these breakthroughs to health and athletic performance through EFT Universe EFTuniverse.com, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web. He has been quoted in many media including NPR, BBC, O:The Oprah Magazine, and Psychology Today.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dawson Church is the founder of EFT Universe. He is the CEO of the Energy Psychology Group, Inc. Mr. Church is the executive director for the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Dawson Church has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a psychotherapy and training center, and is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She frequently teaches about trauma and dissociation around the world and has authored or co-authored numerous publications in the field. Kathy has received several awards for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is co-author of The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation of the Personality and Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (2006) and Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists. (2011) She is currently writing a practical clinical manual on treatment, resistance, and impasses in dissociative disorders with Suzette Boon, PhD and Onno van der Hart, PhD. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathy Steele maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Emory University, Transformational Counselling Centre, and Hummingbird Centre for Psychotherapy. She receives royalties as a published author. Kathy Steele receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kathy Steele is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

David Feinstein, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and 9-time national award-winner for his books on consciousness and healing. He and his wife established the world’s largest organization teaching energy medicine, and their latest book, The Energies of Love, achieved best-seller status on the NY Times Relationship List. He has also written more than 100 articles in the professional literature.

Dr. Feinstein has served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Antioch College, and the California School of Professional Psychology. In addition, he received the 2002 and 2012 “Outstanding Contribution” Award from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, the U.S. Book News Award for the Best Psychology/Mental Health Book of 2007, the 2015 “Outstanding Leadership” Award from the Canadian Association for Integrative and Energy Therapies, and the Infinity Foundation’s 2013 “Spirit Award” (with his wife) for their contribution to “the evolution of consciousness” and its “impact on society”. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: David Feinstein directs The Energy Medicine Institute. He is an author and receives royalties. Dr. Feinstein receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: David Feinstein is a member of the American Psychological Association; and the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

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Psychologists
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Social Workers
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Canadian Social Workers: PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this self-study course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 18.0 Clinical continuing education credits. Course Level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.

Illinois Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 18.0 contact hours.

Minnesota Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study course has been approved for 18.0 continuing education hours. A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of a post-test.

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Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 18.0 continuing education credits.

Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #: RCST071001. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 18.0 clock hours of continuing education credit.

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Other Professions
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