Save up to 50% on CE with June Specials!

From Professional Development Resources

Save up to 50% on CE during June with our Monthly Specials!

Your new June CE Specials are in with 10 new ways to save up to 50% on CE:

Eliminating SDBs

Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors is a 4-hour online course that teaches you how to identify, analyze and replace self-defeating behaviors (SDBs) with positive behaviors. This course provides an excellent psychological “tool” for clinicians to use with their clients. The author grants limited permission to photocopy forms and exercises included in this course for clinical use. Course #40-08 | 2007 | 44 pages | 35 posttest questions

4 Hours CE for only $28! (reg $56 – save 50%!)

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Eliminating SDB Chronic Pain

Living a Better Life with Chronic Pain is a 5-hour online course that takes you through 16 guided exercises to learn how to identify self-defeating chronic pain issues, analyze and understand them, and then replace them with healthy, positive, and productive life-style behaviors that lead to permanent behavioral change. *This course contains common material with Eliminating SDBs (above). Course #50-12 | 2014 | 49 pages | 35 posttest questions

5 Hours CE for only $50! (reg $69)

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Assessing Substance Abuse

Assessing Substance Abuse in Patients with Chronic Pain is a 3-hour online course that will demystify the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain, the role and limitations of pain medications, and how to to assess when active substance abuse is present and develop appropriate treatment objectives. This course will also address suicide assessment and treatment non-adherence. Course #30-35 | 2006 | 34 pages | 20 posttest questions

3 Hours CE for only $21! (reg $42 – save 50%!)

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Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents is a 1-hour introductory online course that describes the symptoms and treatments for bipolar disorder (BPD) in children and adolescents, including signs and symptoms, differences between child/adolescent and adult BPD, diagnostic types, medications for BPD (along with their individual cautions), and other therapies. Course #10-68 | 2012 | 24 pages | 10 posttest questions

1 Hour CE for only $10! (reg $14)

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Alternative Therapies

Alternative Therapies: Herbs I (What Every Clinician Should Know) is a 1-hour online course that teaches the historical use of herbal medicine, the beneficial effects and potential dangers of commonly used herbs, and the scientific evidence for their effectiveness. Completion of this course does not provide sufficient education for prescribing herbs; however, any clinician may provide educational materials to clients. Course #10-43 | 2010 | 55 pages | 7 posttest questions

1 Hour CE for only $10! (reg $14)

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Biology of Aging

Biology of Aging: Research Today for a Healthier Tomorrow is a 2-hour online course that introduces some key areas of research into the biology of aging. You can look at each topic individually, or you can step back to see how they fit together, interwoven to help us better understand aging processes. This course also looks ahead to the future, as today’s research provides the strongest hints of things to come. Course #20-85 | 2012 | 30 pages | 15 posttest questions

2 Hours CE for only $29! (reg $38)

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DID

A Dissociative Identity Disorder Casebook is a 4-hour online course that details the diagnosis, treatment, and case management of Multiple Personality Disorder, more recently known as Dissociative Identity Disorder. Includes in-depth discussions on the controversies surrounding this relatively rare disorder, rule-outs and co-morbid conditions to be considered, and the numerous clinical challenges encountered. Course #40-14 | 2008 | 50 pages | 30 posttest questions

4 Hours CE for only $28! (reg $56 – save 50%!)

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Helping Child LDs

Helping Your Young Client Persevere in the Face of Learning Differences is a 3-hour video course that provides strategies and techniques for helping students minimize the patterns of “learned helplessness” they have adopted, appreciate and maximize their strengths, develop a growth mindset, value effort and persistence over success, view mistakes as opportunities to learn, and develop a love of learning. Course #30-75 | 2014 | 21 posttest questions

3 Hour VIDEO Course only $39! (reg $57)

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Deposition

Deposition & Courtroom Testimony: How to Survive and Thrive is a 2-hour online course that outlines skills necessary for professionals who may be involved in litigation in the capacity of expert witness, identifies tactics commonly employed by cross-examining attorneys, suggests methods for enhancing professional credibility and provides strategies for dealing with the rigors of cross-examination. Course #20-37 | 2008 | 26 pages | 20 posttest questions

2 Hours CE for only $20! (reg $28)

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How Children Become Violent

How Children Become Violent is a 6-hour online course that examines the cycle of youth violence and sexual offending and how this cycle can be broken. The author draws on her 30 years of experience working in and researching violence to make a case for the fact that juvenile and adult violence begins very early in life, and it is both preventable and treatable with the correct intervention. Course #60-68 | 2006 | 136 pages | 36 posttest questions

6 Hours CE for only $42! (reg $84 – save 50%!)

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Sale prices valid on future orders only. Sale ends June 30, 2015.

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Save 50% on Online CE in PDR’s Weekly Deals

By Gina Ulery

Professional Development Resources, an accredited non-profit provider of online continuing education for healthcare professionals, features up to 10 courses each week at 50% off regular price in their Weekly Deals.

The current Weekly Deals are:

Building Resilience in your Young ClientBuilding Resilience in your Young Client – It has long been observed that there are certain children who experience better outcomes than others who are subjected to similar adversities, and a significant amount of literature has been devoted to the question of why this disparity exists. Research has largely focused on what has been termed “resilience.” Health professionals are treating an increasing number of children who have difficulty coping with 21st century everyday life. Issues that are hard to deal with include excessive pressure to succeed in school, bullying, divorce, or even abuse at home. This course provides a working definition of resilience and descriptions of the characteristics that may be associated with better outcomes for children who confront adversity in their lives. It also identifies particular groups of children – most notably those with developmental challenges and learning disabilities – who are most likely to benefit from resilience training. The bulk of the course – presented in two sections – offers a wide variety of resilience interventions that can be used in therapy, school, and home settings. Course #30-72 | 2014 | 53 pages | 21 posttest questions


Ethics and Social MediaEthics and Social Media
– Is it useful or appropriate (or ethical or therapeutic) for a therapist and a client to share the kinds of information that are routinely posted on Social Networking Services (SNS) like Facebook, Twitter, and others? How are psychotherapists to handle “Friending” requests from clients? What are the threats to confidentiality and therapeutic boundaries that are posed by the use of social media sites, texts, or tweets in therapist-client communication? The purpose of this course is to offer psychotherapists the opportunity to examine their practices in regard to the use of social networking services in their professional relationships and communications. Included are ethics topics such as privacy and confidentiality, boundaries and multiple relationships, competence, the phenomenon of friending, informed consent, and record keeping. A final section offers recommendations and resources for the ethical use of social networking and the development of a practice social media policy. Course #20-75 | 2013 | 28 pages | 14 posttest questions