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PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND LAW IN CALIFORNIA, 2ND EDITION 1 [6 CE hours] This course is intended to provide details on professional ethics, professional values, and California law for behavioral and mental health professionals. It emphasizes the importance of professional values and ethics and identifies the role and impact of laws for these professions, so that practitioners can prevent unethical or unlawful behaviors in their practice and provide exceptional patient care. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE REQUIREMENT FOR LAWS AND ETHICS 61 [5 CE hours] It is clear that acknowledgment of the historical context of racism and its current implications is a vital aspect of providing care to a diverse population. Mental health practitioners, medical providers, researchers, community leaders, advocates, activists, and laypersons should work to prevent and effectively treat the psychological and physical distress experienced as a result of the racism faced by African American clients. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY/SOCIAL JUSTICE RACIAL TRAUMA: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ANXIETY DISORDERS 79 [15 CE hours] Anxiety disorders are characterized by states of chronic, excessive dread or fear of everyday situations. The fear and avoidance can be life-impairing and disabling. Anxiety disorders result from the interaction of biopsychosocial factors, whereby genetic vulnerability interacts with situations, stress, or trauma to produce clinically significant syndromes. The influence from hereditary factors and adverse psychosocial experiences on anxiety disorder pathogenesis and pathophysiology is complex, but neuroscience advances have greatly improved the understanding of the underlying factors in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders.
MANAGEMENT OF POST-TRAUMATIC AND SECONDARY TRAUMATIC STRESS IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS [1 CE hours] Job burnout, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and secondary traumatic stress (STS) are consequences of extreme job demands in the healthcare profession. Such demands may include frequent and intense contact with traumatized clients and chronic exposure to traumatic content at work. PTSD has long-term physical and psychological complications that can affect health and lifelong functioning.
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