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Good Mental Health Podcast Series with Psychiatrist David Mays

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This new 10-hour podcast series with instructor David Mays is designed to deepen your understanding of issues that can support mental well-being for both you and your clients/patients. Listen to seven interesting and informative podcasts anywhere, anytime. topics include music, sleep, aging, humor and more.
Upcoming Dates
  • July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025
    $229
    Self-paced

Personality Disorders: Comprehensive Review of Assessment and Management

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
In this 10-hour fully asynchronous course, learn a simple approach for distinguishing the 10 personality disorders: the notion that each disorder has a unique agenda that is repeated over and over again. This knowledge can help you recognize what is happening in the client's world. You also learn about attachment and attachment patterns.
Upcoming Dates
  • July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025
    $299
    Self-paced

Substance Use Disorders Counselor Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Substance Use Disorders
Take your career to the next level by earning a Wisconsin Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) Counselor license. The UW Flexible Option SUDS Counselor Certificate offers a fully online option for fulfilling the required specialized educational hours. Register any time for six months of course access.
Upcoming Dates
  • July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025
    $2,250
    Self-paced

Grief Support Specialist Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This one-of-a-kind, 40-hour, online certificate with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy, peer educators and others. It provides knowledge and skills to create/enhance a professional specialty to support people who have suffered a major loss.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 16, 2024–Dec. 6, 2024
    $1,249 through September 27; $1,449 after
    Group-paced
  • March 12, 2025–May 2, 2025
    $1,249 through February 26; $1,449 after
    Group-paced

Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence: Foundational Application to Practice

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
This 4-hour, interactive live webinar with instructors from Share Collaborative targets helping professionals, workplace leaders, and others. By exploring the principles of cultural humility we'll enhance your ability to serve increasingly diverse client populations and work with diverse teams.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 7, 2024
    $129
    Live online
  • Jan. 16, 2025
    $129
    Live online

Managing Ethics and Boundaries with a Clinical Lens

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Ethics and Boundaries
This 4-hour course meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and boundaries continuing education. The fully online, anytime, participatory course addresses unique issues encountered during the provision of clinical services and best practices to address challenges.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 8–18, 2024
    $148
    Group-paced
  • Jan. 24, 2025–Feb. 10, 2025
    $148
    Group-paced

Promoting Women's Leadership in Human Services

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
This seven-hour live webinar (offered over two 3-hour sessions plus self-study) with instructor Jodi Vandenberg-Daves is for women and allies in human services who want to learn how to develop allyship and gender-inclusive leadership, practice self-advocacy and advocate for gender-fair workplaces.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 8–15, 2024
    $165
    Live online

Enrich Your Practice: Clinical Supervision

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This 2-hour live webinar with instructor Erri Hewitt reviews topics related to clinical supervision in the provision of mental health care including defining competency, setting expectations and enhancing supervisory relationships. The course is designed for health and mental health professionals.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 4, 2024
    $59
    Live online

The Changing World of Professional Ethics and Boundaries in a World of Artificial Intelligence, Managed Care, and Workforce Shortages

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Ethics and Boundaries
New: This 4-hour live webinar meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and boundaries continuing education. It addresses critical ethics, boundaries and confidentiality issues including the emergence of artificial intelligence, managed care, and workforce challenges.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 12, 2024
    $148
    Live online

Disenfranchised Grief

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This one-hour live webinar with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and others. It explores disenfranchised grief, the impact of minimizing or hiding grief, and shares strategies for coping with grief in personal and professional contexts.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 13, 2024
    $29
    Live online

Dementia: Exploring Grief and Loss

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This two-hour live webinar with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals working with an aging population. It explores the grief of the person with dementia and their caregivers. You'll gain both an understanding of grief and effective strategies that are uniquely associated with dementia.
Upcoming Dates
  • Jan. 10, 2025
    $59
    Live online

Etiology of Suicide and Provider Self Care

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This 6-hour live webinar (offered over two days) with instructor Meghan Henderson targets social workers, therapists and other helping professionals. It discusses common etiology of suicidal behavior, as well as risk assessment, intervention, safety planning and prevention. We also review self-care.
Upcoming Dates
  • Feb. 4–5, 2025
    $169
    Live online

Advancing Motivational Interviewing

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Motivational Interviewing
This 20-hour blended (online and live Zoom sessions) course with instructors Laura Saunders and Melody Cole is for learners who want to strengthen their existing MI skillset. Develop strong skills and outline an implementation plan. Not sure which course is right for you? Check out our MI info page.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 4, 2025–May 6, 2025
    $875
    Live online

Cultural Reverence: Dialogue vs. Debate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Human Services
New: This 4-hour, interactive live webinar with instructors Adesola Oni and Shawn Smith builds on the Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence course. Further explore frameworks for engaging in dialogue, avoiding debate and building skills for healthy discussions regarding culture, identity and more.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 6, 2025
    $129
    Live online

Building Motivational Interviewing Competency Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Motivational Interviewing
This 38-hour blended (online and live Zoom sessions) course with instructors Laura Saunders and Adrienne Allen is for participants wanting to learn or relearn the knowledge and skills necessary to reach MI proficiency. Not sure which MI course is right for you? Check out our MI information page.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 11, 2025–May 13, 2025
    $1,299 The registration fee includes two practice sessions with a simulated client and instructor feedback and access to Canvas, an online learner management system. The course workbook is not included in the fee. Please see the summary for details on where the text can be purchased.
    Live online
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