ABUSE DETECTION AND INTERVENTION FOR LICENSED PROFESSIONALS
Abuse Detection and Intervention for Licensed Professionals
For Licensed Clinicians, Mental Health Professionals, Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors and Domestic Violence Counselors
For Licensed Clinicians, Mental Health Professionals, Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors and Domestic Violence Counselors
Regrettably, we’ve all experienced professional development opportunities that are just…plain…bad.
Some guy sits in front of a gray background and reads irrelevant mumbo jumbo from a script, and, to get those CE hours, you’re forced to stifle yawns…unable to skip, fast forward, or even leave the tab.
The most frustrating part is that you KNOW that you’ll never use this information!!
This is NOT one of those experiences!
Our on-demand, online CE program, Abuse Detection and Intervention for Licensed Professionals is relevant, dynamic, and accredited!
It features cutting-edge concepts, strategies, and techniques proven to work by established experts in the field.
And you can access this critical four-part, APA Accredited*, 9.5-hour CE course at any time from the comfort of your own home!
WHY THIS COURSE IS CRITICALLY RELEVANT
Our research and experience working with abuse victims taught us that ALL relational abuse stems from covert emotional abuse.
Covert emotional abuse often lurks in muddy waters tangled up in he said/she said, reactive defense, and victim anxiety often making abuse detection agonizingly difficult.
With a documented rise in relational abuse cases, we know that therapists are inundated with overflowing caseloads.
It’s what the UN is calling a “shadow epidemic” of the pandemic spiked demand for relevant, high-quality training.
This groundbreaking video course will give you a new understanding and tangible tools to best equip all mental health professionals to identify when psychological abuse is the underlying cause for disrupting your clients’ lives.
If you are unable to identify when your client’s depression, anxiety or other distress is being caused by relational abuse, your clients are unlikely to experience positive therapeutic outcomes that will last long-term, particularly if covert emotional abuse is present.
Whether abuse is occurring is essential for the practitioner to assess when deciding best treatment options, and this comprehensive course is designed to help you accomplish this.
Course outcomes
This 9.5-hour CE program, co-sponsored by The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma and The MEND Project will begin to equip you to recognize psychological abuse in clear and defining ways that provide a pathway to healing.
It is also a training curriculum for identifying and responding to emotional abuse, the common thread among all forms of relational abuse. You will learn about Double Abuse and how to identify unconscious biases that contribute to intimate partner violence and Double Abuse dynamics.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Skillfully identify covert emotional abuse and trauma
Confidently determine the victim from the one instigating the harm
Effectively respond to victims and learn how to address the one causing harm
Avoid the damaging impacts of Double Abuse
Pricing
$299 FOR 9.5 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS and each part can also be purchased individually
to gain a specific amount of CE hours.
This Part focuses on:
- Understanding the terms of abuse
- The statistics of abuse
- Double Abuse and how it compounds trauma
- Covert emotional abuse more deeply through the Maze of Confusion
- The Iceberg Analogy of Abuse
- The Five Pillars of Abuse defining the mindset and entrenched beliefs of the abuser
- Couples therapy and why it is strictly contraindicated when psychological abuse is happening within the relationship.
This Part focuses on:
- Helping victims find their voice to contribute to change
- Obstacles victims face
- The faulty beliefs victims carry about themselves
- The post-separation control wheel
- What victims need
- Practicing empathy in connection
- What offenders need
- The Accountability Model of Courage
- What happens when a victim is not ready to speak up
- When an abuser is not ready to accept accountability or take responsibility.
This Part focuses on:
- Understanding the relationship between psychological abuse and trauma
- How abuse conditions the brain
- Forms of trauma
- Physiological manifestations of PTSD and Complex PTSD
- The importance of responding well
- Trauma and attachment
- Developmental Trauma Disorder
- ACES and risks
- Children in the foster system
- The economic cost of abuse.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Annette Oltmans’ determination to fully understand what was happening within her own marriage catapulted her into several years of intense research, therapy, writing and healing. Her research and personal experience with abuse and her search for qualified therapists, informed pastors, and physicians who were qualified to identify the abuse and diagnose her CPTSD led her to founding The MEND Project. Annette’s CV
Co-Presenter David Hawkins, Ph.D., MSW is a clinical psychologist who has brought healing and restoration to thousands of marriages and individuals since he began his work in 1976. He is CEO/Founder of Marriage Recovery Center and Emotional Abuse Institute, and the Clinical Director of Pacific Psychological Associates, a consortium of private practitioners. He specializes in developing programming and counseling strategies for helping couples in severe conflict due to narcissistic and emotional abuse. He is a certified sex offender treatment provider, domestic violence treatment provider, and board-certified forensic examiner. He is the author of over 30 books, most recently, Why Marriage Counseling Fails. Dr. Hawkins addresses queries and content-specific aspects per postdoctoral education and training. Dr. Hawkins’ CV
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Annette Oltmans’ determination to fully understand what was happening within her own marriage catapulted her into several years of intense research, therapy, writing and healing. Her research and personal experience with abuse and her search for qualified therapists, informed pastors, and physicians who were qualified to identify the abuse and diagnose her CPTSD led her to founding The MEND Project.
Co-Presenter David Hawkins, Ph.D., MSW is a clinical psychologist who has brought healing and restoration to thousands of marriages and individuals since he began his work in 1976. He is CEO/Founder of Marriage Recovery Center and Emotional Abuse Institute, and the Clinical Director of Pacific Psychological Associates, a consortium of private practitioners. He specializes in developing programming and counseling strategies for helping couples in severe conflict due to narcissistic and emotional abuse. He is a certified sex offender treatment provider, domestic violence treatment provider, and board-certified forensic examiner. He is the author of over 30 books, most recently, Why Marriage Counseling Fails. Dr. Hawkins addresses queries and content-specific aspects per postdoctoral education and training.
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Scholarship Opportunities:
We offer a 50% scholarship on this product (full bundle only) for clergy and nonprofit employees needing CEs. To apply for this discount, please complete this application and submit it to us.
IVAT and Continuing Education
*The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT) maintains responsibility for this continuing education program and its content. Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT) provides American Psychological Association (APA) continuing education courses to social workers, marriage and family therapists, and counselors. APA approval satisfies requirements for different disciplines in many states; however, requirements vary. Please check with your state credentialing Board. This program is approved for up to 9.5 continuing education credits.