• Define professional ethics, including the fundamental principle of client welfare.
• Identify fundamental ethical principles of boundaries and confidentiality that underlie specific guidelines
• Abide by the ethical and legal guidelines covered, and express the reasons for the guidelines in terms of ethical principles and liability.

• Indicate when and why a provider is a "covered entity" required to comply with HIPAA.
• Identify the definition of HIPAA and identify its primary roles in regulating medical records.
• Identify the reasons HIPAA was developed, including the problems pertaining to electronic medical records that HIPAA addresses.

• Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Define professional ethics, including the fundamental principle of client welfare.
• Identify fundamental ethical principles of boundaries and confidentiality that underlie specific guidelines
• Abide by the ethical and legal guidelines covered, and express the reasons for the guidelines in terms of ethical principles and liability.
• Explain the reasons for confidentiality, including the beneficial effect on society through improved mental health services utilization.
• Identify behavioral red flags that indicate elevated risk for boundary violations.
• Summerize each of the 12 Principles of the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC).
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

Learning Objectives

• Utilize counseling skills such as active listening and helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence
• Discuss the basic elements of Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Have a working knowledge of the stages‐of‐change through which a client moves when thinking about, beginning, and trying to maintain new behavior

Learning Objectives

• Identify approaches for screening, assessing, and diagnosing depression in older adults.
• Describe approaches for selecting appropriate treatment for older adults with depression.
• Summarize evidence-based care for older adults with depression.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the principles and practices outlined in the NBCC Code of Ethics.

Learning Objectives

• Describe what mindfulness is and how it can be developed.
• Describe how mindfulness has been incorporated into psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies.
• Identify ways in which mindfulness approaches may relieve psychological distress.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the prevalence, vulnerabilities, and consequences of misuse and abuse of alcohol, prescription drugs, and illicit substances among older adults.
• Identify counseling considerations and approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for older adults with substance use disorders.

Learning Objectives

• Describe aspects of military culture.
• Identify ways that civilian clinicians can make adaptations to work with military service members, veterans, and families.
• Describe ways to build community capacity to enhance civilian-based services to service members, veterans, and families.

Learning Objectives

• identify and compare three approaches to forgiveness.
• describe the assessment process involved in applying forgiveness therapy with couples.
• describe the therapy process involved in applying forgiveness therapy with couples.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the Preamble, Purpose and Principles from the NASW Code of Ethics.
• Describe the Ethical Standards from the NASW Code of Ethics.
• Summarize 2008 revisions to the NASW Code of Ethics.

Learning Objectives

• describe elements of perinatal depression and physiological correlates of the perinatal period.
• outline assessment in IPT for perinatal depression.
• outline treatment phases and techniques in IPT for perinatal depression.

Learning Objectives

• identify mindfulness competencies for counselors and psychotherapists as identified by mindfulness practitioners.
• describe how mindfulness competencies can inform mindfulness training with clients.

Learning Objectives

• identify significant research findings regarding factors that impact and do not impact behavioral health outcomes.
• summarize empirical evidence regarding the impact of therapeutic alliance on psychotherapy outcomes.
• describe research findings regarding the validity, reliability, feasibility and sensitivity to change of the ORS and SRS.
• describe factors contributing to expert performance.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply FIT and Deliberate Practice in clinical practice.
2. Utilize feedback to positively impact client outcomes.
3. Describe how to analyze outcome and alliance data accurately.
4. Define deliberate practice and how to apply it for improving therapist effectiveness

Learning Objectives

1. To apply the principles of deliberate practice in supervision, to the mastery of FIT, and their individual professional development.
2. Explain and address client feedback on the ORS and SRS.
3. Identify rationale and tips for including video analysis of therapy sessions in deliberate practice.
4. Describe how to combine FIT with other approaches and treatment protocols.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the meaning and relevance of the clinical cutoff on the ORS.
2. Outline the meaning of the various “performance metrics” reported in the authorized software systems.
3. Administer the Group Session Rating Scale with fidelity.
4. Describe how FIT and deliberate practice can be used to improve therapeutic effectiveness.

Learning Objectives

1. describe the potential neurocognitive processes that become dysregulated due to addiction and may be improved through MBIs
2. outline the current state of research regarding clinical outcomes of mindfulness-based treatment for addiction
3. compile a list of recommendations for future research related to mindfulness-based treatment for addiction

Learning Objectives

1. describe the empirical evidence reviewed in the course article.
2. outline the findings in the course article in relationship to what is already know about the benefits of various nonpharmacological, pharmacological and combination treatments for children and adolescents with Depressive Disorders.
3. compile a list of future research needs related to the treatment of depression in children and adolescents.