Therapy Tidbits – Spring/Summer 2024
Course Abstract
Therapy Tidbits – Spring /Summer 2024 is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course comprised of select articles from the current issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent, online newsletter intended to keep psychologists informed about practice issues.
The articles included in this course are:
- Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Health: The Lowest Hanging Fruit – Highlights how AI can offer a solution to current challenges and open new possibilities for improving care delivery and therapist wellbeing.
- Jewish College Students Under Siege – Offers a brief overview of strategies for supporting Jewish students, families, and university faculty members.
- Fighting Antisemitism in Clinical Practice – Provides an outline of the individual steps practitioners can take to combat antisemitism.
- New Psychological Research Highlights Factors Fueling Gun Violence Epidemic – Discusses a recent study that suggests males who did not live up to their standard of being masculine, or whose masculinity was threatened, were more likely to be violent.
- Considerations for Telesupervision in Mental Health Clinical Training – Explores the benefits and challenges of using technology as part of clinical supervision of master and doctoral-level mental health trainees.
- Ethical Dimensions of Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Psychology – Focuses on the ethical use of AI in psychology, cautioning against the possibility of bias in AI algorithms.
- Coping with Moral Injury in Mental Healthcare – Explains the concept of “moral injury” and offers strategies for supporting persons who suffer with it.
- Gestalt Therapy: Processes that Impact Client Awareness – Summarizes aspects of Gestalt Therapy and describes how it impacts patients.
Course #11-56 | 2024 | 17 pages | 10 posttest questions
Learning Objectives
- Explain three benefits and two risks of using AI in clinical practice
- Describe two ways that healthcare professionals can help to combat antisemitism
- List two challenges and two benefits of telesupervision
- Identify two strategies for supporting persons suffering from moral injury
Course Directions
This online course provides instant access to the course materials (PDF download) and CE test. The course is text-based (reading) and the CE test is open-book (you can print the test to mark your answers on it while reading the course document).
Successful completion of this course involves passing an online test (80% required, 3 chances to take) and we ask that you also complete a brief course evaluation.
About the Author(s)
CE Information
Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
