SELF STUDY CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs) NOW AVAILABLE FOR LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, AND/OR LEPs!
The Center for Enriching Relationships, Inc.'s goals in providing CER seminars are to provide mental health professionals with access to a diverse continuing education program featuring the most qualified and oftentimes well-known and nationally acclaimed specialists for the betterment of the psychological community.
To this point, topics have included specific interventions and theories (i.e. attachment theory and EFT), clinical issues within particular populations (i.e. families, older adults, addictions), and new psychological science that addresses the need for innovative ways to provide care.
CER is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. CER maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Click on the following link to learn more about the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists: www.camft.org
SELF STUDY PROGRAMS
Each self study program costs $29.00 to view. Complete the contact form beneath the program you wish to view and instructions on how to complete the program will be emailed to you by our Program Coordinator.
CEU Certificate Qualification Requirements: Participants must watch the entirety of the program recording, complete a course evaluation, and pass the post-test with a 70% passing rate or higher.
ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY—BASICS AND BEYOND
Dr. Benjamin Coleman, Ph.D., PSY#27491 | Recorded November 10, 2023
1 CEU available
Course description: This course is a primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that will train practitioners on using basic ACT skills and interventions. This course will also provide rationale for why therapists often undermine their own work by using an “ACTish” approach with only basic interventions. The course aims to facilitate for the clinician a new depth of understanding to work more effectively with clients by enhancing fidelity to the model, applying the spirit of the ACT model to all parts of treatment, and living out ACT behavioral qualities in the therapist’s own life.
Overview:
Introduction to the ACT Hexaflex
The ACT Question
The Spirit of ACT
Basic ACT Interventions
Common Missteps and Therapist Stuck Points that Undermine the Process
Applying ACT in Every Day Life – Therapist Congruence
Learning objectives:
Understand the ACT hexaflex and core behavioral qualities that are developed during a course of ACT treatment.
Learn when and how using competing models or an eclectic approach may actually undermine any ACT interventions (called “ACTish” therapy).
Identify ways in which the therapist can benefit themselves, and their clients, by developing their own behavioral qualities and becoming more personally congruent with the model.
Target audience: Licensed, pre-licensed, and student therapists of all skill levels. This is a beginner course on ACT, with opportunity for intermediate-level application of more complex issues.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Benjamin Coleman, Ph.D., PSY#27491 is a licensed psychologist and the Program Director in the Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling Program at Point Loma Nazarene University where he teaches and leads consultation groups about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He completed his Ph.D. at Fuller Theological Seminary Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena, CA. Beyond using ACT in his clinical work with adolescents and adults, Dr. Coleman has worked in ACT treatment programs in the Los Angeles VA Healthcare System and Harbor UCLA Medical Center that focus on areas such as PTSD, chronic pain, and HIV mental health.
FREEDOM FROM DESTRUCTIVE ANGER: DISCOVERING THE KEYS TO MANAGING ANGER
Dr. Marcial Felan, D.Min., LMFT#45603| Recorded September 15, 2023
1 CEU available
Course description: The principles and strategies that are taught in this course come out of Dr. Felan's own struggle with anger that he learned and applied from Dr. Neil Clark Warren's material on anger in the book Make Anger Your Ally (1998). While working at the Shadow Mountain Community Church he put what he learned out of his personal struggle with anger and biblical principles into a 76 page workbook, Freedom From Destructive Anger, and used it to teach a 7 week anger management course at the church each year for 10 years. After leaving the church Dr. Felan taught the course using this material for the community at large from 2012 till 2016. Dr. Felan now uses this material and other resources to help clients in his private practice individually who want to overcome destructive anger in their lives.
In this course Dr. Felan will present an overview of anger for a proper understanding of anger, sources of anger and strategies for managing destructive, harmful, hurtful anger.
Learning objectives:
Gain proper understanding of anger as a God given emotion that often is mishandled and ends up hurting others and or ourselves.
Identify possible sources of anger in our lives.
Learn strategies to manage anger: A letter to yourself about anger, Keeping an anger journal, How to Take a Time Out the right way, Three key questions to ask yourself when you are angry and then developing strategies to get positive results from your anger versus negative, hurtful, harmful results.
Target audience: Those who want to help people struggling and want to overcome hurtful, harmful anger in their lives.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Marcial Felan has over 43 years of full-time ministry experience. 20 years were served in executive administrative leadership with Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries. As an ordained minister in 1981 and a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and Texas, Dr. Felan served for 11 years as Pastor of Family Ministries, with Dr. David Jeremiah at the Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, CA. The last 13 years have been spent in private practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Educational experience is a B.A. in Bible (Pt. Loma Nazarene Univ. 1977), Master of Divinity (Denver Seminar, 1980), Doctor of Ministry degree (Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, MN., 1999), in Marriage and Family Studies and M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy (Bethel Seminary, San Diego, 2003).
NO MORE NIGHTMARES: HOW TO USE PLANNED DREAM INTERVENTION TO END NIGHTMARES
Dr. Beverly Ann Dexter, Ph.D., PSY#24088 | Recorded May 12, 2023
1 CEU available
Planned Dream Intervention (PDI) is a highly effective, rapidly learned skill that teaches the dreaming brain how to sleep through nightmares. Developed by Dr. Beverly Ann Dexter, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist in 2001 and taught to thousands of clients (including in an active combat zone), health care providers and educators around the world. PDI is dramatically different from previous therapies that require multiple sessions, an established therapy relationship, continued follow up if more disturbing events occur, and is much more acceptable to the large percentage of nightmare sufferers who would never pursue traditional therapy or who might not have in-person access to therapy. Briefly, the successful PDI is: 1) an intuitive emotion-gut creation; 2) may not necessarily be the first thing the individual thinks of; 3) the ‘emotional volume’ of the effective PDI matches that of the dream at the point where the dreamer woke up; 4) the successful PDI is not re-writing the dream—it kick-starts the person back into the dream with a sense of mastery; 5) if the dream is about a real life event, the PDI that will work may not necessarily appear to be related to what the dreamer would like to have happen in real life; and 6) effective dream interventions can be created from physical sensations or emotions, even when the individual does not remember actual dream content. PDI training creates a mastery experience allowing the dreamer to sleep through any dream without waking or acting out dream content, now and in the future.