• Define IPV and it's inclusion of psychological abuse.
• Outline the scope and rate of IPV through statistics and discussion.
• Describe current, objective data on gender ratios and issues.
• Outline the history of IPV from the shelter movement and related feminist activism up to current events affecting clinical thought and service delivery.
• Identify critiques of the IPV gender and patriarchy paradigm
• Describe political and ideological influences on treatment and legislation regarding IPV.
• Know the factors that contribute to IPV.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

• Identify mandated reporters, and understand the participant's responsibilities in mandated reporting.
• Name the standards for making a report of child abuse, including factors such as the limits of confidentiality, reasonable suspicion, and statutory responsibility.
• Identify typical psychological disorders occurring in survivors of abuse and neglect.
• Describe methods of intervention that minimize trauma to survivors of sexual abuse and their families.
• Describe the causes of abuse and sexual abuse.
• Identify the profiles of sexual abusers and be able to distinguish between pedophiles types and other types of abusers.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

• Identify how anger and violence and substance use are linked.
• Articulate the difference between anger and aggression
• Describe the various myths of anger and how to deal with them
• Identify actions and events that trigger anger.
• Describe how to conduct anger management sessions that can help a person channel their negative energy in the right direction.
• Describe how women and men channel anger differently and how to deal with both genders during anger management sessions.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

Substance Abuse Treatment and Domestic Violence

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the health care professional will be able to:

• Identify the key stages: from drinking and transition to early and ongoing recovery.
• Describe the therapeutic tasks and pitfalls that characterize Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse.
• Implement interventions with individual family members, as well as the system as a whole, helping to restructure roles, interactions and beliefs that have been shaped by addiction and abuse.
• Outline the importance of facilitating the family's use of outside sources of support.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the health care professional will be able to:

• Assist victims, survivors, and family members cope with trauma and loss
• Assist victims, survivors, and family members participate in the criminal justice process
• Assist the community-at large in recovery through education, outreach, and support
• Describe and manage service providers' own work-related stress responses.
• Outline major lessons learned in behavioral health following episodes of mass violence, such as the tsunami, Katrina, etc
• Assess risk and protective factors of various populations as regards to mental health and disasters or emergencies
• Define crisis intervention
• Identify signs and symptoms of distress
• Describe and utilize tools for effective crisis interventions
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

Learning Objectives

• Summarize the effects of maltreatment on brain development.
• Describe trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children affected by sexual abuse or trauma.
• Describe the evidence regarding TF-CBT.

Learning Objectives

• Compare and contrast prolonged exposure and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for the treatment of complex PTSD.
• Summarize the efficacy, effectiveness, and negative prognostic factors for the two approaches.
• Describe elements of experientially-informed prolonged exposure.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the legal duties of clinicians in circumstances involving dangerous clients.
• Identify clinical approaches to working with dangerous clients.

Learning Objectives

• Identify common approaches to trauma.
• Describe ways that therapist mindfulness and compassion can and might benefit survivors of trauma.

Learning Objectives

• identify and compare three approaches to forgiveness.
• describe potential clinical implications of a focus on forgiveness.
• summarize new ways to think about forgetting and its potential relationship to forgiveness.

Learning Objectives

• identify definitions and prevalence of IPV.
• describe factors that may be associated with IPV.
• summarize effectiveness evidence regarding the treatment of victims and perpetrators of IPV.
• identify clinical guidelines for working with victims and perpetrators of IPV.

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize the correlates of the dissociative subtypes of PTSD
2. Summarize the neurobiological correlates of the dissociative subtype of PTSD
3. Identify treatment implications when dissociation accompanies PTSD
4. Describe shared decision-making interventions for working with clients with PTSD
5. Summarize the benefits of shared decision-making interventions for PTSD

• Identify cultural biases and be sensitive to cultural differences.
• Identify the physical and psychological changes that are associated with aging.
• Describe common psychological disorders found in aging individuals.
• Utilize tools to diagnose and manage issues related to aging.
• Describe intervention techniques that minimize trauma to elderly patients and their families.
• Utilize support resources such as groups, families, and residential centers to facilitate improved comprehensive care.
• Outline the issues of aging from many aspects, including sexual, chemical dependence/alcohol, abuse, sociological, biological and psychological.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

• This course will enable clinicians to:
• Describe aging from a bio-psychosocial perspective.
• Effectively help families that have issues related to aging.
• Outline mental health issues to which the elderly population is vulnerable.
• Describe long-term care issues pertaining to the aging population.
• Identify alternative arrangements for the elderly.
• Respond effectively, safely, and ethically to concerns regarding elder abuse.
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.