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Chapter 1: Laws, Regulations, and Ethics for Florida Psychologists (Mandatory) [3 CE Hours] 1 The laws and regulations pertaining to psychologists are subject to change across time and jurisdiction. It is necessary for psychologists to remain up to date on the laws and regulations pertinent to them and their clients. Additionally, it is becoming increasingly important to regularly review the foundational basics of ethics, as well as how these concepts and related codes of conduct should be applied in the psychology profession. Psychologists often work with vulnerable individuals in sensitive situations. An important aspect of being a mental health professional, through research or by providing therapeutic services, is being aware of the ethical issues faced by all psychologists. If you provide psychological services, you are obligated to remain informed about current ethical standards or issues. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE REQUIREMENT FOR LAWS AND ETHICS Chapter 2: Keeping Clients Safe: Error and Safety in Behavioral Health Settings (Mandatory) [3 CE Hours] 18 Behavioral health organizations share many of the same vulnerabilities as medical organizations when it comes to patient safety. However, certain sentinel events are more likely to occur in behavioral health organizations. The vast majority of professionals working in the behavioral health field receive no instruction on patient safety which also prevents them from being active participants in creating a culture of safety. This basic-level course presents such strategies as safety briefings, root cause analysis, speaking-up and full disclosure and describes areas of behavioral health care that are error prone (suicide risk assessment, mandatory reporting, and diagnosis). THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE REQUIREMENT FOR MEDICAL ERRORS Chapter 3: Ethics in Behavioral Health Documentation: Reasons, Risks, and Rewards (Mandatory) [3 CE Hours] 38 This basic-level course will help practitioners approach documentation in a way that is guided not solely by what is mandated, but by what is mutually beneficial to all stakeholders in the documentation process: The practitioner, the agency, the funding source, and – most of all – the clients. 62 This intermediate-level course summarizes the theories on understanding trauma from psychological, developmental, and neurobiological perspectives; discusses various forms of trauma treatment; introduces the reader to integrative approaches to healing that reflect a holistic perspective; and explains practitioner self-care and the prevention of secondary or vicarious traumatization. Case vignettes throughout highlight key learning concepts. Chapter 5: Protocols on Pain Assessment and Management in Modern Medicine [5 CE Hours] 120 THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE REQUIREMENT FOR LAWS AND ETHICS Chapter 4: Integrative and Comprehensive Trauma Treatment, 3rd Edition [9 CE Hours] Pain assessment is considered a pivotal aspect of modern medicine. In a broader sense as a concept, pain assessment involves a comprehensive clinical judgment describing and analyzing pain based on the type, significance, and context of the patients’ experience. Describing pain with these assessment tools can be either difficult or easy depending on the demographics of the patients. In pediatric pain assessment, pre-verbal and developmentally disabled children might find it extremely difficult to properly describe the nature and severity of pain. In most cases, modern protocols for pain assessment in this population advise the use of behavioral tools in place of self-reported pain models. Medical personnel handling sessions of pain assessment in the pediatric population are trained to recognize, gauge and document different behavioral cues necessary to improve pain assessment in children. In the geriatric population, pain assessment is more multidimensional, requiring the consideration of different behavioral and physiological cues.
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PSYCHOLOGY CONTINUING EDUCATION
Book Code: PYFL4024
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