Course Description

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This program examines the many issues associated with the impact, both negative and positive, of one’s mental health state on physical health and wellbeing. You will explore: how to optimize quality of life in patients with chronic medical illness; assessing cognitive deficits accompanying chronic medical illness; the psychosocial aspects of obstetrics, gynecology, and fertility; psychosocial manifestations of organ failure and transplantation; the assessment and treatment of the psychosocial aspects of breast cancer, cardiac disease, and child and adolescent eating disorders; the assessment and treatment of children with disabilities who have been abused; developing a sexual health component in a practice; how to design an ethical and practical website; how to provide online therapy; psychotherapist wellness as an ethical imperative; the ethical and professional issues for mental health providers in correctional settings.

14 CE credits/hours (including 3 ethics credits), 140 questions


Target Audience

Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers

Learning Level

Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the assessment and treatment of patients with a variety of chronic medical illnesses, including

                -  optimizing quality of life when treating patients with chronic medical illnesses,

                -  understanding and assessing cognitive deficits accompanying chronic medical illness,

                -  psychosocial aspects of obstetrics, gynecology, and fertility,

                -  psychosocial manifestations of organ failure and transplantation,

                -  assessment and treatment of the psychosocial aspects of breast cancer, cardiac disease, child and adolescent eating disorders, and 

                -  children with disabilities who have been abused.

  • Identify options for professional development, including

                -  the development of a sexual health component in one's practice.

  • Recognize ethical issues faced by mental health professionals, including

                -  psychotherapy wellness as an ethical imperative,

                -  ethical and professional issues for mental health providers in corrections,

                -  practical and ethical issues for designing a mental health professional's website, and

                -  problems and solutions with online therapy.

Sections

  1. 1
    • Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)

  2. 2
    • Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)

    • Final Exam

  3. 3
    • Evaluation Questionnaire

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