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Courses Included in This Bundle
- The Journey and Impact of Prescribing Psychologists (3 CEs)
- Insights in Vulnerability: Advancing Ethical and Risk Management Decision Making through Behavioral Economics and Decision Science (3 CEs)
- Keynote: Cultivating Self-Care for Professional Well-Being (1 CE)
- What Matters Most in Autism Interventions (1.5 CEs)
- Trauma Treatment with Interpersonal Violence Survivors (1.5 CEs)
- Utilizing Psychological Assessment Results to Inform Clinical Practice (1.5 CEs)
- What is all this about a Cultural Neuropsychology Zeitgeist? Evolving Cultural Competency in Neuropsychological Practice (3 CEs)
- The Trust Ethics and Risk Management Roundtable at NPC 2024 (3 CEs)
- Health Psychology Strategies in Your Clinical Practice: Innovative Approaches to Improve Adults’ Health and Well-Being (3 CEs)
- Recent Advances in the Psychological Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (3 CEs)
The Journey and Impact of Prescribing Psychologists
Presenters: Jin Lee, Psy.D., MSCP, BCB and Lynette Pujol, Ph.D., MSCP
Total CE: 3
What is it like to be a prescribing psychologist? In this session, you'll learn how integrating clinical psychopharmacology into practice makes a difference in conceptualization, treatment, and consultation with other health care providers. Two psychologists with clinical psychopharmacology training will discuss how they have used their knowledge to pass a prescriptive authority bill and to advocate for improved patient care. Clinical practice, current research, and legislative hurdles are woven into their own personal stories of pursuing and obtaining prescriptive authority.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the practice of a prescribing psychologist to include types of referrals, challenges, and impact on practice.
- Apply the integration of pharmacologic knowledge in clinical decision-making and consultation.
- Describe a personal journey to passing an RxP bill.
- Use the necessary preparations for proposing a bill in your state.
- Identify major initiatives in prescribing psychology.
Insights in Vulnerability: Advancing Ethical and Risk Management Decision Making through Behavioral Economics and Decision Science
Presenters: Leisl Bryant, Ph.D., ABPP; Marc Martinez, Ph.D., ABPP; Stacey Larson J.D., Psy.D.
Total CE: 3
This session will explore the vulnerabilities of patients and clinicians alike and how vulnerability and risk can increase in the interplay between the two. On the clinician side, we will give special focus to behavioral economics and decision science, addressing its implications for bias and vulnerability in clinical, ethical, and risk management decision making. We will further provide strategies for reducing the impact of these vulnerabilities/risk, and will demonstrate clinical, ethical, and risk-managed decision-making through the use of case examples focused on current hot topics in the field – specifically artificial intelligence (AI), the impact of laws/regulations on practice, and novel methods and treatments such as psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Learning Objectives
- Describe at least two vulnerabilities of patients and clinicians.
- Identify core heuristics and biasing processes that can interfere with appropriate risk management and ethical decision-making.
- Demonstrate at least three strategies to ameliorate decision-making challenges.
- Utilize basic principles of risk management and analyze clinical cases for appropriate ethical and risk management decision-making as applied to several specific clinical situations that arise in current professional practice.
Keynote: Cultivating Self-Care for Professional Well-Being
Presenter: Tonya Wood, Ph.D.
Total CE: 1
There has been increased attention to self-care to promote emotional, and physical well-being. Despite this widespread discussion, many of us struggle to strike a healthy, sustainable work-life balance. This session will explore the topic of self-care tailored specifically to mid-career psychologists. By examining the socio-cultural context of self-care across the lifespan, ethical and legal aspects of self-care for psychologists, and current research on wellness, participants will learn tools to develop an individualized self-care plan, enhance professional effectiveness, and cultivate balance, joy, and resilience in their professional and personal lives.
Learning Objectives
- Identify two common stressors mid-career psychologists face and their impact on mental well-being and job satisfaction.
- Apply three practical techniques for managing stress, promoting health, and preventing burnout.
- Analyze the ethical implications of developing and implementing a personalized self-care plan.
Trauma Treatment with Interpersonal Violence Survivors
Presenter: Lenore E. Walker, Ed.D.
Total CE: 1.5
This session will define the elements of psychological trauma that occur to victims/survivors of various forms of interpersonal violence and may respond to certain psychotherapy methods. This will include focus on trauma from sexual abuse and rape, sexual exploitation by persons in power positions, sexual harassment, interpersonal and domestic violence, child abuse especially child sexual abuse, and sex trafficking. The underlying theoretical approach to treatment will include trauma-specific focus, feminist theories, and skill-building with relationship and cognitive behavioral techniques. Useful protocols for assessment in clinical and forensic cases will also be explored.
Learning Objectives
- Design a protocol for the assessment of interpersonal trauma survivors.
- Identify 3 different treatment skills for psychotherapy with interpersonal trauma survivors.
Utilizing Psychological Assessment Results to Inform Clinical Practice
Presenter: Shalena Heard, Ph.D.
Total CE: 1.5
This session will begin with a review of the basic components of psychological and psychoeducational assessment reports for children, adolescents, and young adults, and conclude with a case review and discussion of how to use clinical data summarized in assessment reports to inform interventions, referrals, and further evaluation.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the basic components of a psychological and psychoeducational assessment report.
- Analyze relevant clinical data within assessment reports relevant to intervention planning.
- Apply psychological assessment results to a therapy case example.
What Matters Most for Autism Interventions
Presenter: Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
Total CE: 1.5
This session will discuss current findings from research on autism related to clinical practice, with a little bit on assessment and then a focus on interventions. How much of a difference do the various treatments make? What are the consistent findings about interventions and are there any interpretable data about differences in effectiveness with different autistic children and different treatments? What can we take from these findings in terms of providing and recommending services?
Learning Objectives
- Identify major dimensions of treatments that comprise early intervention in autism and their most likely outcomes.
- Explain several of the most commonly sought treatments of co-occurring disorders in an autistic population and how they have been modified specifically for autistic patients (CBT, PCIT, ERP).
- Assess various factors to consider in selecting different interventions and working with families and autistic people to do so.
The Trust Ethics and Risk Management Roundtable
Presenters: Leisl Bryant, Ph.D., ABPP; Marc Martinez, Ph.D., ABPP; Stacey Larson J.D., Psy.D.
Total CE: 3
This Roundtable will focus on current ethical, risk, and practical challenges encountered by clinicians. We will discuss the basic dimensions and implications of cyber security and HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, responding to requests for test data and materials, suicide risk reduction considerations, record keeping, coaching, and risk management after a patient’s death by suicide. We will also respond to participants’ questions on these and other ethics and risk management topics. The overall goal of this Roundtable will be to heighten participants’ knowledge and skills in addressing the ethical and risk management implications of practice challenges and enhance participants’ ability to scrutinize the soundness of various alternative solutions. We will also discuss strategies for effective risk management and good patient care when regulations and requirements are unclear.
Learning Objectives
- Describe two cybersecurity risks, as well as the HIPAA Breach Notification requirements.
- Discuss the differences between test data and test materials and describe three methods for maintaining the security of test material.
- Apply three steps to reduce risk with patients who disclose moderate-to-high level suicidal ideation.
- Utilize three risk management strategies for effective record keeping.
- Demonstrate three strategies for mitigating risk in the practice of coaching.
- Select at least two ethical and risk managed responses to a patient’s death by suicide.
What is All this About a Cultural Neuropsychology Zeitgeist? Evolving Cultural Competency in Neuropsychological Practice
Presenter: David Lechuga, Ph.D.
Total CE: 3
Healthcare professionals today evaluate and treat people from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. Neuropsychology and psychology have struggled to address key steps required to adjust our approaches and interventions toward a more culturally centered profession. With the advent of a revised set of competencies, there is a growing effort to facilitate this change process at organizational levels. But this change process necessarily must occur at the personal level first. This session will provide background to the growing influence of cultural factors to the change process for the field of neuropsychology. Resources will be shared and discussed. A primary emphasis will be placed upon enhancing the personal changes needed to support the macro adjustments needed to create a fairer and more balanced field of neuropsychology.
Learning Objectives
- Assess how individual worldviews and biases affect professional work and study activities.
- Describe available resources to pursue a more culturally-centered professional practice.
- Identify key diversity factors from case presentations to determine which affect a more culturally-centered practice or neuropsychology.
Health Psychology Strategies in Your Clinical Practice: Innovative Approaches to Improve Adults’ Health and Well-Being
Presenter: Helen L. Coons, Ph.D., ABPP
Total CE: 3
This session focuses on health psychology skills for psychologists who have had limited formal training in clinical health psychology. We will review assessment, treatment, and prevention strategies for adult patients who are “at risk” for or are coping with chronic and life-threatening physical conditions. We will also discuss biopsychosocial approaches to actively prepare individuals, couples and families for diagnostic and invasive medical procedures, improve pain management, body image, sexual health, quality of life, wellness, and communication when living with marked uncertainty from chronic and life-threatening physical illness. Collaboration guidelines with health care providers when you are in independent practice outside of health care settings will also be outlined. Case examples and role plays will readily consider clinical approaches for adults across the lifespan with diverse and intersecting identities who are facing health threats such as heart disease, cancer, neurological, and other physical conditions.
Learning Objectives
- Describe assessment, treatment, and prevention strategies for adult patients “at risk” for or coping with chronic and life-threatening physical conditions.
- Explain biopsychosocial approaches to improve body image, sexual health, communication, and quality of life among adults facing chronic and life-threatening physical illness.
- Select clinical strategies to improve well-being in adults living with marked uncertainty from their chronic and life-threatening physical conditions.
- Use communication and collaboration guidelines with health care providers who are in independent practice outside of medical settings.
Recent Advances in the Psychological Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Presenter: Terence Keane, Ph.D.
Total CE: 3
Recent advances in the psychological treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) indicate that there are now multiple treatments available with great promise and demonstrated efficacy. In particular, there are more than a dozen clinical trials examining the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral treatments for PTSD. Impressively, these treatments appear to be successful in treating PTSD secondary to a wide variety of traumatic life events. The purpose of this session is to provide a systematic overview of the theoretical conceptualization underlying many of the proven treatments, a review of the extant literature on treatment efficacy, and to provide the necessary skills for experienced therapists to immediately begin to utilize these individual therapies. As well, information on components of group treatments for PTSD will be presented and the use of complementary internet self-help approaches will be included in the session. Strategies will also be suggested to improve and enhance the use of these treatments in a variety of practice settings.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the prevalence of exposure to traumatic events and the eventual development of PTSD.
- Compare the various conceptual models currently employed to understand the development of PTSD and to guide treatment.
- Apply the treatment methods known to promote improvement for individuals with PTSD.
- Explain treatment strategies and techniques to employ with PTSD patients.
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