Distance Counseling Continuing Education Opportunities
Recertification of your DCC credential will require that you have completed twenty hours of continuing education during your five year certification period. Fifteen of those hours can be general counseling or mental health related courses. Five hours must be specific to distance counseling. Below are several courses which could be applied toward the 5 hour distance counseling specific requirement:
This information is provided as a courtesy. You will need to verify the accuracy of all information, including course content, price and credits prior to registering for a course. Inclusion on this list does not imply CCE endorsement.
Provider: ReadyMinds
Website: http://www.readyminds.com/training/ceu.html
Security Strategies for Distance Counseling via E-Mail: [3 Contact Hours] [$49.00] This course examines security strategies that may be employed by counselors using distance methods (specifically e-mail) in their work with clients. Encryption and related procedures for protecting client confidentiality are discussed. Issues related to various practice settings are explored, as well as client considerations. $49.00 The primary authors are Heidi Ravis, EdM, NCC, DCC and Jill Lumsden, Ed.S., NCC, DCC, with assistance from ReadyMinds Staff.
Ethical Guidelines, Legal and Regulatory Issues in Distance Counseling: (3 Contact Hours) ($49.00) This course is based on Chapter 11 of the book "Distance Counseling: Expanding The Counselor's Reach and Impact," by James F. Malone, Randy Miller, and Garry R. Walz (Editors). The primary author is James F. Malone
Provider: Counseling CEUs Online
Website: http://www.counselingceusonline.com/course_list.htm
Employing The Internet To Enhance School Counseling Programs: [10 contact hours] [$50.00] The study and reading in this course opens the door to the Internet for school counselors and their students. It identifies the role of the school counselor as a content provider and describes more than 700 counseling-related Web sites. Major Internet resources will be described along with ways to employ this wide-ranging tool to enrich the lives of the students in our schools. Major search engines, browsers, research engines, and directories are described along with ways to use them. Resources for the college-bound students and the student interested in pursuing employment after graduation will be outlined with much attention to how they can be practically employed in a school counseling program. Materials include a Course Description, Course Directions, Course Outcomes, Textbook Reference, Study Guide Questions, Vocabulary List, Supplementary Readings, and Related Links to guide the study of the material in the course. A final examination with a satisfactory score is required for successful completion of the course. NBCC Content Area: The Helping Relationship. SchoolCounselor.com: A Friendly and Practical Guide to the World Wide Web by Russell A. Sabella. $32.95 (new) $29.95 (used) . ISBN: 093279694X.
Provider: American Counseling Association (ACA)
Website: http://www.counseling.org/Resources/OnlineLearning.aspx
Cybercounseling: Going the Distance for Your Clients [3 CE Hours] {$54.00 - $75.00] John Bloom, Ph.D., Garry Walz, Ph.D. and Donna Ford, MS. This course is designed for counselors interested in Cybercounseling. Topics will include: the scope of cyber practice; understanding the different levels of cybercounseling; ethical guidelines; credentialing and licensure laws; training and technical skills; supervision; diversity and accessibility; appropriateness of cybercounseling; differences between cyber and face-to-face counseling; and research.
The Attractiveness of Telephone Counseling: Robert J. Reese, Collie W. Conoley, & Daniel F. Brossart [1 CE Hour] [$18.00 - $25.00] Telephone counseling clients reported that convenience, accessibility, control, and inhibition were the most attractive attributes of receiving counseling (not crisis intervention) via telephone. The results mirror many opinions in the literature. Of the 186 counseling clients who responded to the survey, 96% would be willing to seek telephone counseling again compared with 63.1% who reported being willing to seek face-to-face counseling. More than half (58%) of the respondents who had experienced both telephone and face-to-face counseling preferred telephone counseling.
Online Counseling and Electronic Records: Robert Mitchell Book Documentation in Counseling Records, Third Edition [1 Hour CE Credit] Since publication of the previous edition of this monograph in 2001, electronic technology has exploded and has made the requirements for online counseling and electronic records even more challenging for every helping profession. In addition, since the 1996 passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), there has been an ongoing controversy about the storage and transmission of electronic data as well as various interpretation of pertinent law.
Provider: learn4health
Website: http://www.learn4health.com/store/catalog/mentalhealthceu.php
Navigating the Mental Health Internet: David Lukoff, Ph.D. [8 CE Hours] This course is designed to teach mental health professionals a variety of skills necessary to use the Internet as a powerful communication and information technology tool. A wide variety of mental health Internet resources are presented, together with skill development necessary to fully utilize such resources. The Internet contains over 1.7 billion Web pages, including vast archives of mental health resources. But with no bibliographic control standards such as those which guide the print world, the Mental Health Internet is difficult to navigate and fully utilize. This course provides hands-on training in Internet exploration, search strategies and tools. The course begins with basic navigation training, followed by an Internet guided tour of clinical resources available for working with patients with substance abuse, PTSD, medical illnesses, depression, and other problems. The next lesson covers search skills to obtain a wide variety of mental health information and resources, including links to dozens of useful web sites. In addition, the clinical topics of online therapy, techno-stress, and Internet addiction are covered in some detail. At the end of the course, you will be a confident Internet user. You can find resources necessary to stay up with developments in the mental health field and utilize such resources in your daily professional activities.
This information is provided as a courtesy. You will need to verify the accuracy of all information, including course content, price and credits prior to registering for a course. Inclusion on this list does not imply CCE endorsement.
Provider: ReadyMinds
Website: http://www.readyminds.com/training/ceu.html
Security Strategies for Distance Counseling via E-Mail: [3 Contact Hours] [$49.00] This course examines security strategies that may be employed by counselors using distance methods (specifically e-mail) in their work with clients. Encryption and related procedures for protecting client confidentiality are discussed. Issues related to various practice settings are explored, as well as client considerations. $49.00 The primary authors are Heidi Ravis, EdM, NCC, DCC and Jill Lumsden, Ed.S., NCC, DCC, with assistance from ReadyMinds Staff.
Ethical Guidelines, Legal and Regulatory Issues in Distance Counseling: (3 Contact Hours) ($49.00) This course is based on Chapter 11 of the book "Distance Counseling: Expanding The Counselor's Reach and Impact," by James F. Malone, Randy Miller, and Garry R. Walz (Editors). The primary author is James F. Malone
Provider: Counseling CEUs Online
Website: http://www.counselingceusonline.com/course_list.htm
Employing The Internet To Enhance School Counseling Programs: [10 contact hours] [$50.00] The study and reading in this course opens the door to the Internet for school counselors and their students. It identifies the role of the school counselor as a content provider and describes more than 700 counseling-related Web sites. Major Internet resources will be described along with ways to employ this wide-ranging tool to enrich the lives of the students in our schools. Major search engines, browsers, research engines, and directories are described along with ways to use them. Resources for the college-bound students and the student interested in pursuing employment after graduation will be outlined with much attention to how they can be practically employed in a school counseling program. Materials include a Course Description, Course Directions, Course Outcomes, Textbook Reference, Study Guide Questions, Vocabulary List, Supplementary Readings, and Related Links to guide the study of the material in the course. A final examination with a satisfactory score is required for successful completion of the course. NBCC Content Area: The Helping Relationship. SchoolCounselor.com: A Friendly and Practical Guide to the World Wide Web by Russell A. Sabella. $32.95 (new) $29.95 (used) . ISBN: 093279694X.
Provider: American Counseling Association (ACA)
Website: http://www.counseling.org/Resources/OnlineLearning.aspx
Cybercounseling: Going the Distance for Your Clients [3 CE Hours] {$54.00 - $75.00] John Bloom, Ph.D., Garry Walz, Ph.D. and Donna Ford, MS. This course is designed for counselors interested in Cybercounseling. Topics will include: the scope of cyber practice; understanding the different levels of cybercounseling; ethical guidelines; credentialing and licensure laws; training and technical skills; supervision; diversity and accessibility; appropriateness of cybercounseling; differences between cyber and face-to-face counseling; and research.
The Attractiveness of Telephone Counseling: Robert J. Reese, Collie W. Conoley, & Daniel F. Brossart [1 CE Hour] [$18.00 - $25.00] Telephone counseling clients reported that convenience, accessibility, control, and inhibition were the most attractive attributes of receiving counseling (not crisis intervention) via telephone. The results mirror many opinions in the literature. Of the 186 counseling clients who responded to the survey, 96% would be willing to seek telephone counseling again compared with 63.1% who reported being willing to seek face-to-face counseling. More than half (58%) of the respondents who had experienced both telephone and face-to-face counseling preferred telephone counseling.
Online Counseling and Electronic Records: Robert Mitchell Book Documentation in Counseling Records, Third Edition [1 Hour CE Credit] Since publication of the previous edition of this monograph in 2001, electronic technology has exploded and has made the requirements for online counseling and electronic records even more challenging for every helping profession. In addition, since the 1996 passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), there has been an ongoing controversy about the storage and transmission of electronic data as well as various interpretation of pertinent law.
Provider: learn4health
Website: http://www.learn4health.com/store/catalog/mentalhealthceu.php
Navigating the Mental Health Internet: David Lukoff, Ph.D. [8 CE Hours] This course is designed to teach mental health professionals a variety of skills necessary to use the Internet as a powerful communication and information technology tool. A wide variety of mental health Internet resources are presented, together with skill development necessary to fully utilize such resources. The Internet contains over 1.7 billion Web pages, including vast archives of mental health resources. But with no bibliographic control standards such as those which guide the print world, the Mental Health Internet is difficult to navigate and fully utilize. This course provides hands-on training in Internet exploration, search strategies and tools. The course begins with basic navigation training, followed by an Internet guided tour of clinical resources available for working with patients with substance abuse, PTSD, medical illnesses, depression, and other problems. The next lesson covers search skills to obtain a wide variety of mental health information and resources, including links to dozens of useful web sites. In addition, the clinical topics of online therapy, techno-stress, and Internet addiction are covered in some detail. At the end of the course, you will be a confident Internet user. You can find resources necessary to stay up with developments in the mental health field and utilize such resources in your daily professional activities.
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