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Spiritual Competency: Introduction and Overview
4 CE Credit Course
Spirituality and religion are important components of multicultural competency equivalent in importance to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. This course summarizes the need to include religious and spiritual competencies in healthcare professional training. It also reviews the research conducted by the authors to establish a set of religious and spiritual competencies (attitudes, knowledge, and skills) that all healthcare professionals should be trained in and utilize with clients.
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An Evidence‑Based, Ethically-Sensitive and Strength‑Based Approach to Spiritual Assessment
4 CE Credit Course
This course trains you in the foundation of spiritual competency and 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.
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Spirituality 101
for Mental Health Professionals
More Spiritual Practices
for Mental Health Professionals
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Self-Compassion Practices for Mental Health Professionals
4 CE Credit Course
This 4-hour CE course reviews the contemporary theories and research on psychological approaches to self-compassion, the pioneers in this field, the instruments for measuring this important human capacity, how to use self-compassion interventions in clinical settings, online resources such as guided self-compassion meditations for therapeutic use.
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Forgiveness Practices for Mental Health Professionals
5 CE Credits
The theory and practices of forgiveness have been largely the province of the world’s religious and philosophical traditions. However starting in the mid 1980’s, forgiveness has found a new home within psychology, and research on forgiveness began in earnest. The health benefits have been well-documented and approaches to forgiveness have been developed that therapists can currently drawn on in their work. These courses focus on the religious background to approaches to forgiveness, contemporary research, and clinical applications.
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Mindfulness Practices For Mental Health Professionals
10 CE Credit Course
This 10-hour CE course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and scientific evidence-base required to have informed and ethically-sensitive conversations, make recommendations and referrals, and share mindfulness practices with clients. It covers the history of mindfulness practices in therapy, its evolution from a religious practice to a mental health intervention, contraindications, and programs such as MBSR, ACT and DBT that have solid research support.
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Spirituality 101 for
Mental Health Professionals
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Spiritual Competency: Introduction and Overview
This course reviews the research conducted by the authors to establish a set of religious and spiritual competencies (attitudes, knowledge, and skills) that all healthcare professionals should be trained in and utilize in clinical work with clients.
$49
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Evidence-Based, Ethically-Sensitive and Strength-Based Spiritual Assessment
This course trains you in the foundation of spiritual competency and 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.$49
More Spiritual Practices for
Mental Health Professionals
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Mindfulness Practices for Mental Health Professionals
This course covers the history of mindfulness practices, its evolution from a religious practice to a mental health intervention, contraindications, and programs such as MBSR, ACT and DBT that incorporate mindfulness practices.
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Self-Compassion Practices for Mental Health Professionals
This course explores the roots of self-compassion in both Buddhism and Western Psychology.
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Forgiveness Practices for Mental Health Professionals
This course examines the beliefs and attitudes towards forgiveness found in various religious traditions.
As a spiritually competent mental health professional, you can:
This alliance is based on showing respect toward your clients’ deeply held beliefs and values. This quality is all the more important in light of the pandemic.
SCA's courses allow you new insights and techniques when working with the realm of spirituality and religion in your therapy practice.
Expertise in spiritual competency is a key to more successful outcomes that can lead to more referrals.
These groundbreaking ethically-sensitive spiritual assessments will address clients' spiritual strengths, beliefs, and problems.
You will be able to have evidence-based and ethically-sensitive conversations with clients about how mindfulness, forgiveness and compassion practices could improve their recovery and treatment outcomes.
Share mindfulness, forgiveness and compassion practices with clients through the use of free online resources including guided practices by leading mental health experts.
Harness your clients’ religious and spiritual strengths.
SCA is approved by the American Psychological Association, California Board of Registered Nursing and other boards.