Spiritual Competency for Mental Health Professionals
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This course trains you in the foundational spiritual competency: How to conduct an a spiritual assessment with clients. This will enable you to elicit information for treatment planning and build a stronger therapeutic alliance.
This course focuses on the research support for meditation and mindfulness as forms of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and its changing patterns of usage.
This course describes the theory and research behind Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a system of therapy that combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with mindfulness meditation. The research and theory behind DBT are reviewed in this online course.
An empirically validated psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.
Herbert Benson, MD's pioneering research on the relaxation response helped established the efficacy of meditation for healthcare. Research and theory on the Relaxation Response is introduced in this online course.
This courses provides an overview of the recent neurological research on meditation, its relationship to spirituality as well as reviewing neurochemical, neuroelectrical, and neuroimaging research.
MBCT is taught as a group intervention that takes the form of a participatory psychoeducation course.
Integrative Restoration - iRest, also known as Yoga Nidra, is a multifaceted intervention which was developed by adapting the ancient traditional Yoga Tantric practice of Yoga Nidra, a meditation rather than Hatha Yoga practice.
While meditation practice is generally safe and has beneficial results, it can catalyze challenging psychological problems. This course explores these considerations in using meditation in clinical practice.
This course looks at the possible uses of mindfulness as an aid to parenting and within the life of a marriage and family. The focus is on current research on prenatal mindfulness, mindful parenting, and mindfulness in marriage and couples therapy.
This course describes challenges and potential benefits of using mindfulness as a clinical intervention with children. We also discuss the results of research on mindfulness with children, now in its early stages.
This course describes the recent movement to include the teaching mindfulness to children in mainstream educational classrooms.
This course examines the beliefs and attitudes towards forgiveness found in various religious traditions.
This course introduces a psychological definition of forgiveness and describes the contributions of three major pioneers in the field.
Courses are free to preview in their entirety. Charge is only for CE credits. SCRC courses are accepted by 3 accreditation agencies:
American Psychological Association: The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for license renewal by LCSWs and MFTs for programs from CE approved sponsors of the American Psychological Association. LCSWs and MFTs from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board for approval.
California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California
For questions or additional information, contact David Lukoff, Ph.D. Email Phone: (707) 763-3576