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We are happy to
announce the new PCES Knowledge Club.
Each time you complete
4 paid classes, you will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to use toward any live in-person class or online class during the next 2 years.
As a PCES Knowledge Club member, you will receive special email updates when new courses are announced along with special Knowledge Club member discounts!
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Win a FREE course of your choosing!
| "Like" our Facebook page and you will automatically be entered in our new contest!
Once we reach 100 "Likes" we will draw a random winner from our "Like" list. The winner will receive a FREE course of their choosing!
All other Friends will receive a 50% off promotion code to use on any course they choose. |
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Holman Network Counselors recieve a 25% discount on all courses every day!
Send us an email to receive your discount code.
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| NEW BOOKS FOR ONLINE BOOK REVIEW | |
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School
by John Medina
The Power of Impossible Thinking
by Yoram Wind, Colin Crook and Robert Gunther
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
by Sigmund Freud
To complete your Book Review online click here. Or, if you would prefer to mail in your Book Review, follow the link below:
BOOK REVIEW.
Feel free to print it out to guide you while you review your book, then complete online, or complete the brief review and mail it to us to earn your CE credits. 1 CE per 20 pages/$7.50 per CE's
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8 New Treatment Improvement Protocol Courses
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This month the spotlight is on the new additions to our Treatment Improvement Protocol courses. We are offering 8 new interesting topics for you to choose from!
- Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Child Abuse and Neglect Issues: This course provides valuable tips for treating adult survivors of child abuse or neglect as well as treating adults who may be abusing or neglecting their own children. After successfully completing this course you will receive 16 continuing education credits.
- Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System: Completing this course will better enable you to successfully navigate the criminal justice system. It covers the full range of criminal justice settings and all the phases through which an individual progresses in the criminal justice system. After successfully completing this course you will receive 30 continuing education credits.
- Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People With Stimulant Use Disorders: This comprehensive package provides substance abuse treatment professionals with an intensive outpatient treatment model for their clients and their families: 16 weeks of structured programming and 36 weeks of continuing care. After successfully completing this course you will receive 24 continuing education credits.
- Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders:Â In this manual you will find details of the scope and complexity of adolescent substance abuse and learn successful program components. After successfully completing this course you will receive 12 continuing education credits.
- Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity: As was the case when Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General was released in 1999, Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity expands upon the Surgeon General's original report and explores the issues of race and ethnicity in mental health care. After successfully completing this course you will receive 18 continuing education credits.
- Psychological Issues for Older Adults in Disasters: This course provides important information to help care for the elderly after a disaster strikes. You will learn about the unique issues that older adults face along with the tools to deal with those issues. After successfully completing this course you will receive 8 continuing education credits.
- Disaster Response and Recovery: This course will teach you the basic practical issues related to planning and implementing disaster mental health services. After successfully completing this course you will receive16 continuing education credits.
- Disaster Training Manual: This course is a supplement to Disaster Response and Recovery. It contains information on what workers need to know to provide practical services to individuals who have experienced a disaster. After successfully completing this course you will receive15 continuing education credits.
Sign up for any of the classes during the month of October and pay only $1.75 per CE credit! Just enter Discount Code YNV8 upon check-out.
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What's New In The News? October 2011
| | The New York Times ran an extraordinary piece last month titled Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World written by Amy Harmon. The article follows the journey into adulthood of a young man, Justin Canha. He is guided by his teacher Kate Stanton-Paule, who is the coordinator of a new kind of program for special education students at Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey. Her program is based on the premise that with intensive coaching in the workplace and in the community along with acceptance by others to include them, students like Justin can achieve a level of lifelong independence that has eluded their predecessors.
Read all about Justin's journey here.
Do you need to unwind, but just can't? According to the Wall Street Journal, a walk in the park may be just what you need. Research by Dr. Marc Berman, a post-doctoral researcher at Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, showed that performance on memory and attention tests improved by 20% after study subjects paused for a walk in an arboretum. In fact, performance improved though not as dramatically, just by looking at pictures of nature scenes. The reason, they found, is that nature images engage our involuntary attention, which comes into play when our minds are drawn to something interesting that does not require intense focus. They believe that by engaging involuntary attention we allow our directed attention time to disengage and recover. So, next time you're feeling stressed out, find yourself a bit of greenery and enjoy the view!
Read the complete article here.
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This month's Psychology Today has an interesting series of articles called The Enemy Within. As the title implies, each article is about the "little" ways we humans sabotage ourselves. There's an article about procrastination, one on overeating, one on substance abuse and one on self-effacing behaviors. Although, I've been guilty of all four behaviors throughout my life, the most insidious for me is the last one, self-effacing behaviors. According to the article this behavior is predominately found in females. Psychologist Heidi Grand Halvorson states that self-effacing behaviors are common in bright women because they tend to have erroneous beliefs about their own abilities. They tend to see their abilities as fixed and innate, and because as girls they were praised for being "so smart" they spend their adulthood preoccupied with proving to themselves (and everyone else) that they have ability. So, when they fear that their abilities will be judged lacking, they resort to self-effacing behaviors. Women also tend to want to be "liked" by everyone and self-effacing individuals are generally better liked by others, but they are also seen as less competent than self-enhancing people. The articles are all well written and worth a read.
Read the complete article here.
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We are accredited through:
- BBS for California Marriage, Family and Child Counselors & Licensed Clinical Social Worker;
- APA for Psychologists;
- Association of Social Work boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program for Licensed Clinical Social Workers in 41 states.
- NBCC for counselors, PC, and LPC,
- NAADAC & CAADAC for CATCs,Drug and Alcohol counselors, & Addiction Counselors
- EACC Professional Development Hours (PDH) for CISM courses
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