Bibliography & Post-Test Question Requirements

In keeping with PESI’s mission to provide evidence-based programming and to remain in compliance with various CE boards, all educational content must be supported by a bibliography. In addition, all attendees must complete postseminar evaluation questions to demonstrate they’ve attended the program and earned their CE credit.

As the presenter, you are responsible for creating the bibliography (due at the time you submit your final program content to your business manager) and post-test questions (due 10 weeks prior to your event).

Please submit your completed bibliography and post-test questions to the Manuals Team at manuals@pesi.com.

Bibliography Requirements:

• Number of references:
  • If your program is less than 3 hours, provide at least 3-5 citations/entries/references
  • If your program is 3 hours or longer, provide at least 1 reference per hour
• 50% or 5 entries (whichever is less), of which you are not the author, should be from peer-reviewed journals dated within the past 5 years
• There should be a clear link between the references and program content
  • If you are unable to provide peer-reviewed articles to directly support program content, provide references that tie the content back to generally accepted mental health principles, clinical reasoning, or earlier research.
    • Be sure to also address limited research in your discussion of Limitations and Risks.
• There should be references included from others beyond the originators or proponents of a particular theoretical position or technique
• Peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles should directly support program content, learning objectives, and marketing, including:
  • Theories
  • Assessment
  • Treatment
  • Interventions
  • Skills
  • Treatment outcome claims (ability to impact, affect, achieve, or guarantee treatment outcomes)
• If your program covers ethics, please include a reference to any Code of Ethics that are covered (Ex. ACA, NBCC, APA, AAMFT, NASW, ANCC etc.)
• If your program covers supervision for the behavioral health professions, please include a reference to the AAMFT Standards of Supervision, the APA Guidelines for Clinical Supervision, and any other guidelines or models of supervision that are covered
• Entries should be written in APA format (bibliographies not written in APA format will not be accepted by several accrediting bodies)

Post-Test Question Requirements:

• Test questions should be written at a level appropriate to the post-graduate expertise of the participants
• Test questions should test participants’ ability to apply the content covered in the program (e.g., case study questions) as well as recall of facts
• Test questions should allow learners to demonstrate their attainment of the learning objectives, and all
  learning objectives should be assessed by post-test questions
• 10 questions minimum for a one-hour program; 5 per hour after that. Add additional questions for partial hours as follows:
  • Over the hour by 6 minutes or less → no additional questions needed
  • Over the hour by 7-14 minutes → add 3 questions
  • Over the hour by 15+ minutes → add 5 questions (full hours’ worth)
    • • For example, a 6 hour and 15-minute program should have 40 multiple choice
        questions; a two-day (12.5 hour) program should have 70 multiple choice questions
      • Suggestion: Including a few extra questions is helpful in case your program runs
        longer than expected, and it may reduce the chance that we would need to reach
        back out to you for additional questions.
• Each question should have four (4) possible answer selections, one (1) of which is correct.
• Each question should contain all information necessary required to answer (e.g., if a case study question is
  being asked, please include the case information even if it was provided in an earlier question).
• The following answer selection types are NOT permissible and may not be used at all:
  • All/None of the above
  • All except…
  • Both…
  • X and Y
  • A, B, and D
  • True/False