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1. Explain how to incorporate the combination of client’s challenges, vulnerabilities and resources into clinical assessment for a better understanding of a client.
2. Describe the importance of the two-stage process of learning as it relates to clinical outcomes.
3. Demonstrate three fundamental ways to engage the client’s mind skillfully for clinical practice.
4. Define the practice of positive neuroplasticity as relates to clinical practice.
5. Explain the science of Positive Neuroplasticity and how to teach the methods to clients.
6. Utilize two psychological resources that can be used to teach clients their personal strengths.
7. Demonstrate two practices to use clinically for clients to have beneficial experiences.
8. Incorporate exercises to help clients learn ways to deepen experiences for healing.
9. Name three ways to encourage clients to internalize beneficial experiences and its importance for growth.
10. Describe three blocks to the deliberate internalization of beneficial experiences that can slow clinical work.
11. Explain the research of the three-stage evolution of the human brain and how it relates clinically.
12. Identify key resource experiences to meet clients’ needs.
13. Discuss case studies of specific psychological resources showed to improve psychological disorders such as anxiety, trauma and depression.
14. Explain the different levels of client engagement with painful or upsetting thoughts, feelings, memories, or sensations and treatment implications.
15. Practice skills to help clients holding in awareness for a positive thought or feeling as well as a negative one.
16. Provide perspective and clinical practices for self-compassion.
17. Utilize practices to help clients manage threats from calm strength rather than fear, anger or helplessness.
18. Teach clients skills to enjoy life’s pleasures without getting driven or addicted.
19. Demonstrate ways for clients to internalize experiences of accomplishment and success in everyday life.
20. Guide clients in the importance of being aware of both a desired behavior and an anticipated reward of it.
21. Summarize the importance and research of client self-acceptance and self-worth for better treatment outcomes.
22. Describe how clients can approach relationship issues from compassion and self-respect rather than resentment and inadequacy.
23. Practice a psychological cue each to evoke a sense of peace, contentment, and love to use in session.
24. Discuss Rick Hanson’s HEAL process and how it can relation to treatment.
25. Model two ways to incorporate the HEAL process in psychotherapy.
26. Integrate the HEAL process for the treatment of anxiety, depressed mood, addiction, and trauma.

THE ESSENCE OF POSITIVE NEUROPLASTICITY: FUNDAMENTALS OF POSITIVE BRAIN CHANGE AND HOW TO MEET YOUR CLIENTS' CHALLENGES BY HELPING THEM GROW DURABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES
The critical role of psychological resources to deal with clients’ challenges and vulnerabilities

• The stress-diathesis model: Challenges, vulnerabilities, resources
• Resources located in world, body and mind
• The special opportunity and value of mental resources
• Overview of mental resources (i.e., psychological resources) that are clinically relevant
• Why most of our mental resources are learned: acquired, not innate
• The necessary two stage process of any learning, including acquiring all mental resources: activation and installation
• Why experiencing doesn’t equal learning
• Why most therapeutic experiences do not have lasting value
• Activity: Help clients identify significant challenges and vulnerabilities, and then identify relevant psychological resources for these

The Neuropsychology of Learning

• The brain’s evolved negativity bias
• Clinical implications of the low conversion of therapeutic experiences to lasting changes of neural structure and function
• Major mechanisms of experience-dependent neuroplasticity
• What is positive neuroplasticity
• Activity: Discussion about the clinical implications of the negativity bias
• Activity: Explain the negativity bias to a client

Clients as Active Learners

• Environmental, behavioral and mental factors that increase learning, and thus the acquisition of psychological resources
• The special opportunity and value of mental factors of learning
• Empower clients to be active agents in their healing and growing
• Two kinds of mental factors: Contextual and engagement
• The opportunity and value of engagement factors
• Clinical benefits of clients actively engaging the experiences they are having to steepen their learning/healing/grown curves
• Activity: Experience the two-stage process of learning while using engagement factors
• Activity Explain the two-stage process of learning to a client, and then describe engagement-type mental factors of learning

The Three Ways to Engage the Mind Productively

• Letting go – observing, accepting, exploring the contents of consciousness
• Letting go – preventing, decreasing, or releasing negative or traumatic material
• Letting go – creating, sustaining, or increasing positive materials
• What is mindfulness; why mindfulness is part of letting go and letting in
• How letting be, letting go, and letting in form a natural healing sequence
• Activity: Experience the three ways to engage the mind
• Activity: Explain the three ways to engage the mind to a client
• Activity: Practice the three ways to engage the mind

Teaching Positive Neuroplasticity to Clients

• The science of positive neuroplasticity
• How to guide clients through experiential practices
• Identify and work through key blocks to having and internalizing beneficial experiences, such as distractibility, fear, shame, anxiety, social expectations and trauma
• Activity: How to explain positive neuroplasticity to a client

HAVING, ENRICHING, AND ABSORBING EXPERIENCES: HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE POSITIVE EXPERIENCES CLIENTS ARE ALREADY HAVING, TURNING PASSING STATES INTO LASTING TRAITS
Overview of the HEAL Framework of Engagement Factors of Learning

• Have a beneficial experience
• Enrich it – increasing the neural activity underlying an experience
• Absorb it – increasing the sensitivity of the memory-making mechanisms of the brain
• Link positive and negative materials
• Activity: Experience the HEAL process
• Activity: How to explain the HEAL process to a client

Having Beneficial Experiences

• Notice beneficial experiences in the foreground and background of awareness
• Create beneficial experiences; overview of many ways to do this
• The five elements of an experience: Thoughts, perceptions, emotions, desires, actions; why each is an opportunity for acquiring an aspect of a psychological resource
• Deal with “yes, but” and other blocks to clients having beneficial experiences
• Activity: Experience the five elements present in an experience of playfulness
• Activity: Guide a colleague to be aware of the five elements present in an important experience

Enriching Experiences to Increase Their Neural Registration

• Five factors of Enriching: Duration, intensity, embodiment, novelty, salience
• Activity: These three factors applied to an experience of a psychological resource
• Activity: Explain these three factors to a client
• Activity Guide a colleague through using these three factors of Absorbing to deepen the internalization of an experience of psychological resource

LINKING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MATERIALS: USE POSITIVE MATERIALS TO SOOTHE, CONTEXTUALIZE, AND REPLACE NEGATIVE MATERIALS
Overview of Linking Positive and Negative Material

• Implicit and explicit memory
• How negative material is consolidated, activated, and reconsolidated in the brain
• The window of time during which the reconsolidation of negative material can be disrupted
• Three ways to manage negative material: Grow relevant psychological resources, associate positive to negative, disrupt the reconsolidation of the negative
• Self-compassion: A key resource for managing negative material, and an example of Linking
• Activity: Experience the Link step
• Activity: Explain the Link step to a client
• Activity: Guide a colleague through the Link step

Discussion and Application of Material Presented

• Four ways to use positive neuroplasticity and the HEAL framework with clients
• Adapt positive neuroplasticity for children
• Activity: Discussion with a colleague about using positive neuroplasticity and the HEAL framework with one or more challenging clients
• Activity: How to explain the Link step to a client
• Activity: Guide a client through the Link step

KEY PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES: HOW TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES THAT ARE MATCHED TO CLIENTS' PSYCHOLOCIAL ISSUES
Our Three Needs and Two Ways of Meeting Them

• The three fundamental needs of any animal, including humans: Safety, satisfaction, connection
• The meeting of these needs through Avoiding harms, Approaching rewards, and Attaching to others
• Social brain theory
• Why there is more to human life avoiding pain and approaching pleasure
• The reptilian, mammalian, and primate/human stages of brain evolution and their relationship to the Avoiding, Approaching, and Attaching systems
• Our basic two ways of meeting needs: The Responsive and Reactive modes, without stress and with stress
• Explain what it means when clients go to Responsive mode and Reactive mode and the impact of each
• Activity: Discussion with a colleague about these three needs and two modes for meeting them

Identifying Key Psychological Resources Matched to Clients’ Needs

• Demonstration by instructor with a volunteer of identifying key resources
• Overview of resources for safety, satisfaction & connection
• The value in repeatedly internalizing experiences of needs sufficiently met
• The metaphors of repeatedly petting the lizard, feeding the mouse, and hugging the monkey
• Activity: Guide a colleague to identify key resources for an issue
• Activity: Experience of a basic sense of safety, satisfaction, and connection: peace, contentment, and love

Helping Clients to Identify and Internalize Key Psychological Resources

• Demonstrate by instructor with a volunteer of identifying and internalizing one or more key resources, using the HEAL framework
• Discussion of what helped this go well
• Activity: Guide a colleague to identify and internalize one or more key resources, using the HEAL framework

GROWING STRENGTHS FOR SAFETY: ESTABLISH A FOUNDATION OF CALM AND SAFETY IN WHICH CLIENTS CAN GAIN THE CONFIDENCE THEY NEED TO MEET CHALLENGES
Key Resources for Being and Feeling Safe

• Indicators of challenges to safety: fear, anger, helplessness
• Why we evolved to overestimate threats and underestimate opportunities and resources
• Blocks to reducing anxiety
• Activity: Experience of calm strength
• Activity: Experience of noticing you are basically alright right now
• Activity: Explain to a colleague how to have and internalize more experiences of calm strength and basic alright-ness, and feel less anxiety

Help Clients to Increase Resources for Safety

• Additional resources for safety: sense of agency, protection, and refuge
• Our vulnerability to acquiring learned helplessness
• Discussion of what helped this go well
• Special applications to trauma
• Activity: Guide a colleague to identify and internalize resources for being and feeling safer, using the HEAL framework

GROWING STRENGTHS FOR SATISFACTION: BUILD HEALTHY MOTIVATION IN CLIENTS AND HELP THEM SET UP AND ACHIEVE GOALS
Key Resources for Being and Feeling More Satisfied

• Indicators of challenges to satisfaction: Frustration, loss, ennui, boredom
• Ambition without driven-ness, aspiration without attachment
• Activity: Experience of gratitude and gladness
• Activity: Experience of goal accomplishment and feeling successful
• Activity: Explain to a colleague how to have and internalize more experience of gratitude, happiness, and success, and feel less frustration

Help Clients to Increase Resources for Satisfaction

• Liking and wanting in the brain; enjoy without craving
• How to use associational learning to increase motivation
• Special applications to addiction
• Activity: Guide a colleague to increase motivation for something, using the HEAL framework

GROWING STRENGTHS FOR CONNECTION: IMPROVE CLIENTS' RELATIONSHIPS AND INCREASE THEIR SENSE OF SELF-WORTH
Key Resources for Being and Feeling More Connected

• Indicators of challenges to connection: hurt, rejection, loneliness, hatred, inadequacy, shame
• Normal narcissistic needs
• Activity: Experience of feeling cared about and caring
• Activity: Guide a colleague through internalizing psychological resources for greater self-worth, using the HEAL framework

Help Clients to Increase Resources for Connection

• Three neural circuits of empathy
• The strong heart: combining kindness and assertiveness, love and power
• Activity: Explain the circuits of empathy to a client and exploring how the client could be more emphatic in daily life
• Activity: Guide a colleague the psychological resources that support the strong heart, and how to have and internalize experiences of these resources

Managing Challenges From the Responsive Mode

• Activity: Experience of peace, contentment, love
• Activity: Explore with a colleague how to manage a key challenge from the Responsive mode, including what this would be like and feel like
• Activity: Guide a colleague through having and internalizing an experience of a key resource for managing challenging from the Responsive mode, using the HEAL framework

APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: LEARN HOW TO ADAPT AND APPLY THESE METHODS TO MEET A VARIETY OF NEEDS AND SITUATIONS
Use Positive Neuroplasticity and the HEAL Process for Particular Clinical Issues and Situations

• In mindfulness training
• With depression
• Specific issues from participants
• Activity: Discussion with a colleague about applications to one or more clients

Clinical Consequences of Societal Factors

• How economic, cultural, and other environmental factors affect mental health, for better or worse
• How internalizing psychological resources and living increasingly from the Responsive mode helps people be less vulnerable to manipulations of fear and anger, possessiveness and greed, and grievance and vengeance toward others
• Final discussion
• Activity: Experience of peace, contentment and love

LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND POTENTIAL RISKS

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley, and a New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness (Harmony, 2016), Buddha’s Brain (New Harbinger, 2009), Just One Thing Card Deck (PESI, 2018), and Mother Nurture (Penguin, 2002). He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.

Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University, served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, California. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 114,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity.

He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two adult children.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Rick Hanson maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaker honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Rick Hanson is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mindfulness Research Association.

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Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

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Addiction Counselors

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 25.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.

California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CADTP): PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CADTP, Provider #: 201. This Category H activity meets the qualifications for 25.0 CEU's (continuing education hours).

Connecticut Addiction Counselors: Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 25.25 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.

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Counselors
This intermediate self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

California Counselors: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE programs that are approved by other approval agencies, including several that approve PESI and its programs. A full list of approval agencies accepted by the BBS can be found at www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/cont_ed.html under “Where to find CE Courses.” This Intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Florida Social 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 25.25 continuing education credits.

Montana Counselors: The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of instruction.

New York Counselors: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This self-study activity will qualify for 30.25 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Pennsylvania Counselors: The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This intermediate self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

South Carolina Counselors: This self-study program has been approved for 25.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Texas Counselors: This self-study activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors no longer approves programs or providers. PESI activities meet the continuing education requirements as listed in Title 22 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 681, Subchapter J, Section 681.142 Acceptable Continuing Education. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.

Ohio Counselors: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 25.25 clock hours of continuing education credit. TBD

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Marriage & Family Therapists
This self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

California Marriage & Family Therapists: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE programs that are approved by other approval agencies, including several that approve PESI and its programs. A full list of approval agencies accepted by the BBS can be found at www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/cont_ed.html under “Where to find CE Courses.” This Intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Florida Marriage & Family Therapists: 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 25.25 continuing education credits.

Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. Provider #: 168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 25.0 credits.

Montana Marriage & Family Therapists: The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of instruction.

New York Marriage & Family Therapists: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This self-study activity will qualify for 30.25 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Pennsylvania Marriage & Family Therapists: The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This Intermediate self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

South Carolina Marriage & Family Therapists: This self-study program has been approved for 25.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Texas Marriage & Family Therapists: This self-study activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists no longer approves programs or providers. PESI activities meet the continuing education requirements as listed in Title 22 of the Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 801, Subchapter K, Section 801.264 Types of Acceptable Continuing Education. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.

Ohio 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. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 25.25 clock hours of continuing education credit. TBD

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Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists - Credit Expired: 10/21/2022
No CE available for this board.

California Nurses: PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #:17118 for 25.0 self-study contact hours.

You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

Florida Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 25.0 self-study contact hours.

Iowa Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 25.3 self-study contact hours.

Copies of the evaluation may be sent to the IBON. You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

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Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
No CE available for this board.

Florida Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 25.0 continuing education credits.

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Psychologists & Psychiatrists

Psychiatrists
PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 25.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. This activity was originally recorded on 10/21/2019. It was last reviewed on 07/07/2019 and is valid until 07/07/2022.

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists
The following state psychologist boards recognize activities sponsored by PESI, Inc. as an approved ACCME provider: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin. This activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. You are required to successfully complete and submit a post-test prior to receiving a certificate of completion.

Canadian Psychologists: PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 25.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: https://catalog.pesi.com/page/ceinformation#psychologists

Florida Psychologists: PESI, Inc., is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number 50-399. This product qualifies for 25.3 self-study continuing education credits. Please make sure to bring your license number to the seminar so that we can report your attendance to CE Brokers.

Illinois Psychologists: PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 268.000102. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 25.0 self-study contact hours.

Kentucky Psychologists: PESI, Inc. is approved by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists, approved provider #202312H. PESI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This self-study activity will qualify for 25.25 contact hours.

Indiana Psychologists: PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the Indiana Board of Psychology. Certificate #: 98000998A - Category I. PESI maintains full responsibility for this program and its contents. Full attendance at this self-study course qualifies for 25.25 contact hours.

Ohio Psychologist: PESI, Inc. is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association, Provider #263896894, to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PESI is offering this self-study activity for 25.25 Standard hours of continuing education credit.

Pennsylvania Psychologists: PESI, Inc. is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Provider #PSY000211. PESI maintains responsibility for the program(s). This self-study program qualifies for 25.25 continuing education hours.

South Carolina Psycho-Educational Specialists: This self-study program has been approved for 25.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

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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 course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2020 - January 27, 2023. Social Workers completing this course receive 25.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate. Format: Asynchronous distance learning. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.

California Licensed Educational Psychologists: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE programs that are approved by other approval agencies, including several that approve PESI and its programs. A full list of approval agencies accepted by the BBS can be found at www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/cont_ed.html under “Where to find CE Courses.” This Intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

California Social Workers: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE programs that are approved by other approval agencies, including several that approve PESI and its programs. A full list of approval agencies accepted by the BBS can be found at www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/cont_ed.html under “Where to find CE Courses.” This Intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Colorado Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Provider #1413. This course has been approved for 25.3 continuing education hours.

Florida Social Workers: 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 25.25 continuing education credits.

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 25.0 contact hours.

Kansas Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 25.0 continuing education 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 25.0 continuing education hours. A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of a post-test.

Montana Social Workers: The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of instruction.

New York Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This self-study activity will qualify for 30.25 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Pennsylvania Social Workers: The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This intermediate self-study activity consists of 25.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Ohio Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 25.25 clock hours of continuing education credit. TBD

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 25.25 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

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