PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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2010 Course Descriptions - Northern California
2010 Course Descriptions - Southern California
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OVERVIEW
Our Professional Development Program is intended to meet the needs of employees who are required to earn Continuing Education Units to maintain their license or certificate. The program also is available to those who may want to further develop their skills or acquire new certification within their classification. Currently, we are offering courses for Nurses, Behavioral Health professionals, dietitians and others. Course offerings may include the following: CEN Review, CCRN Review, ER Update, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Anxiety Disorders, Law and Ethics, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Diabetes for Dietitians. New courses are being added all the time. Please check often.
APPLICATION PROCESS
We are now accepting applications for our Spring and Fall 2010 courses.
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Please note: Space is limited. Application doesn't guarantee acceptance. Eligible applicants are accepted on a first come-first served basis. You must fill out an application for courses and be contacted by our staff to confirm your acceptance. Walk-in's are not allowed and will be turned away at the door.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - Northern California
Law and Ethics Update for Psychotherapists
This intermediate course examines familiar clinical issues from a risk management perspective. It is loaded with practical suggestions and illustrative case examples to prepare you to navigate a variety of problematic legal and ethical situations you may encounter in your practice. SATISFIES THE BBS AND BOP REQUIREMENT FOR LCSWS, MFTS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS TO COMPLETE LAW AND ETHICS TRAINING EACH LICENSING CYCLE.
Radiology: Risky Business
In today’s patient focused healthcare environment being just a “technical expert” isn’t good enough! In order to “survive and thrive” in today’s litigious medical environment technologist must expand their knowledge and role in medical legal issues, quality assurance, quality management, patient satisfaction, effective communication, and the inescapable quality standards of acceptability in imaging. As technology evolves it is transforming the delivery of medical services. With this change complex legal issues are becoming more common. Join us in looking at the legal issues raised by this medical revolution and the adaptation of old laws to meet new realities. You will find that the ability to communicate combined with the knowledge of your scope of practice is the best defense. Don’t be liable; be knowledgeable! Course Topics • That Couldn’t Happen to Me! Medical Legal Issues in Radiology • Medical Law • Identifying Risk in Imaging • Professional Ethics • Real Case Scenarios • Quality Assurance/Quality Management: That’s not my job! • Components of a Quality Assurance Program • Patient Focused Communication • Patient Satisfaction; Patients, Clients Customers!
Continuing Education Details: This course is approved by ARRT and the State of California for 8 hours of continuing education credit through the Advanced Health Education Center.
Acute Pediatric Respiratory Illnesses for respiratory therapists
Participants in this course will learn how to name the three classifications of “croup”, identify causative agents, describe initial symptoms and identify clues for diagnosing croup, epiglottitis, asthma, bronchiolitis and acute bronchitis. This course will also cover and pneumonia the history of onset of epiglottitis, respiratory care modalities and treatments are most beneficial to the pediatric patient in the treatment of various respiratory illnesses and recommended pediatric dosages for albuterol and ipratropium bromide.
CONTINUING EDUCATION DETAILS:Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number # 08593 for 8 contact hours.
Anger Management
This course examines the differences and individual styles of anger, the differences between anger and rage, destructive anger versus abuse, powerlessness and anger, and anger management techniques. Participants will engage in experiential exercises to explore their own manifestations and management of anger. Alyce D. LaViolette, M.S. is licensed as an MFT and specializes in anger management as well as domestic violence counseling for survivors and perpetrators. She has worked with battered women for more than 30 years and founded one of the first programs in the country for spouse abusers. She serves as an expert witness for both criminal and family courts. See Psycho-legal Associates Inc for CE details.
Borderline Personality Disorders
This course focuses on the etiology and treatment of borderline personality disorder as one of many posttraumatic disorders. Seminar material reflects the contributions of several areas of inquiry into the disorder, particularly Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Schema Therapy. However, the focus of the seminar is also on the importance of the flexibility of choices of interventions by therapists in approaching these problems.
Instructor: A. Steven Frankel, Ph.D., J.D., ABPP is a psychologist, an attorney, and a diplomate in both clinical psychology and forensic psychology from the American Board of Professional Examiners. He served as a Clinical Professor of Psychology at USC for 11 years including five years as the Chair of Clinical Psychology (Director of Clinical Training) and received the USC Award for Teaching Excellence. He has published over 50 articles and book chapters.
Continuing Education Details: See Psycho-legal Associates, Inc.
Diagnostic Imaging: Pathology and Protection
1.Discuss radiation biology 2.Define acute radiation syndromes 3.Discuss radiation biology from conception from birth and beyond 4.List high does examination 5.Understand pathology of the oral cavity 6.Demonstrate knowledge regarding dose comparisons from radiation disasters 7.Define practical ways to lower radiation dose 8.Identify and discuss diseases and pathology in numerous body systems
Continuing Education Details: This course is approved by ARRT and the State of California for 8 hours of continuing education credit through the Advanced Health Education Center.
Diabetes Multidisciplinary 2010
This workshop will feature doctors addressing topic in diabetes. The day will include an overview of diabetes and hyperlipidemias, treatment of diabetes, diabetic Ketoacidosis, diabetes in children and adolescents and obesity.
Continuing Education Details: This workshop will offer BRN, APA, BBS and ADA approved continuing education credit though Psycho-Legal Associates.
Trends and Updates in Respiratory Care
This course will briefly review basic components which are critical to respiratory practitioners. Prevention of ventilator acquired pneumonia will also be discussed along with current topics and trends in respiratory care.
Continuing Education Details: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number #08593 for 8 contact hours.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - Southern California
Stress Management A Multidisciplinary Workshop
This workshop will feature doctors, psychologists and dietitians speaking about stress management techniques for patients, self-care, positive mind body diet and other relevant topics.
Continuing Education Details:This workshop will offer BRN, APA, BBS and ADA approved continuing education credit though Psycho-Legal Associates.
Treating Difficult Clients
Some psychotherapy clients are nearly impossible to relate to; yet, they come to therapy with a desperation, tenacity, passion, and/or vengeance that compels our concern and attention. Contemporary psychotherapy seeks to address the trying and sometimes exasperating impasses we encounter in our work. Dr. Lawrence E. Hedges will contextualize these many difficult treatment situations within a framework of developmental arrest and deficits. He will demonstrate that different kinds of transference reactions characterize different kinds of relationship experiences in therapy and call out distinctly different emotional countertransference reactions in therapists. This intermediate course will provide some fresh ways of considering difficult clients and of working creatively and effectively with them. TOPICS • Listening Perspectives • The Four Developmental Levels of Relatedness • The Ethics of Relating • The Value of Achieving Flexibility in Relatedness • The Case of Paul: A Countertransference Illustration • Terror & The Nature of Organizing Transference, Resistance, and Countertransference Reactions • Themes & Essential Features of the Organizing Experience • Using the Organizing Experience Worksheet to Study Early Developmental Traumas as they appear in Transference, Resistance, and Countertransference.
Anxiety Disorders (Los Angeles)
The anxiety disorders--Panic Disorder with and without Agoraphobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, and Specific Phobia--are one of the most frequent diagnostic groups seen in clinical settings. This workshop is designed to help you diagnose and formulate effective treatment approaches to these disorders, using an approach that--despite the surface differences of the various anxiety disorders--allows for a conceptually unified and effective approach to these disorders. Rodney P. Boone, Ph.D. is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience treating individuals with anxiety disorders. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Psychiatry, and is the Founder and Director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Southern California, a group practice offering cognitive behavioral therapy for the mood, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. See Psycho-legal Associates Inc for CE details.
Suicide: What Therapists Need to Know
This course examines the latest findings on the risk factors and demographics of suicide, and offers both a conceptual model and a developmental perspective on the dynamics underlying suicide. Additionally, it addresses the topic of assessment and provides an innovative approach for treating suicidal clients.
Instructor: Lisa A. Firestone, Ph.D. is a psychologist and the Director of Research and Education with the Glendon Association. Since 1987, she has been involved in clinical training and applied research in suicide and violence. Her studies resulted in the development of the Firestone Assessment of Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST) and the Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT).
Diagnostic Imaging: Pathology and Protection
Upon completion of this course the rad tech will be able to: 1.Discuss radiation biology 2.Define acute radiation syndromes 3.Discuss radiation biology from conception from birth and beyond 4.List high does examination 5.Understand pathology of the oral cavity 6.Demonstrate knowledge regarding dose comparisons from radiation disasters 7.Define practical ways to lower radiation dose 8.Identify and discuss diseases and pathology in numerous body systems
Continuing Education Details: This course is approved by ARRT and the State of California for 8 hours of continuing education credit through the Advanced Health Education Center.
Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring
This course is intended for the experienced critical care nurse. The course reviews the principles of hemodynamic monitoring including the principles or preload, afterload, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and uses for the pulmonary arterial catheter. Advanced scenarios and complex patients will be reviewed. Provider approvided by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number #08593 for 8 contact hours
Cardiac Care
In this course, participants will learn: - The pathophysiology that leads to the development of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) - Modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for ACS - Various types, stages and treatment options of cardiomyopathy - Pathophysiological changes seen in heart failure - The etiology and common causes of valvular disease - The clinical presentation of aortic emergencies - Medication options for critical cardiac issues
Continuing Education Details: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Number # 2925 for 8 contact hours
Trends and Updates in Respiratory Care
This course will briefly review basic components which are critical to respiratory practitioners. Prevention of ventilator acquired pneumonia will also be discussed along with current topics and trends in respiratory care.
Continuing Education Details: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number #08593 for 8 contact hours.
