Counseling Patients at the End of Life
End-of-life decisions can be complex and challenging. Health and mental health professionals can help with their expertise, whether it is for the person facing death, their family, surrogate decision makers, or caregiver.
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Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 5.00 Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
  • 5.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Setting Ethical Limits: For Caring and Competent Professionals
Without proper self-care, boundaries, and awareness (transference), therapists become vulnerable to burnout and vicarious traumatization. This can result in a risk of therapeutic effectiveness, loss of trust with clients, and possible ethical crossings or violations.
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Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 6.00 Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
  • 6.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Anemia in the Elderly
Anemia may be common in the elderly patient, but it should not be accepted as normal aging. The scientific evidence suggests that consequences of untreated geriatric anemia are significant. Anemia leads to poorer quality of life and increased morbidity and mortality.
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Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 5.00 ANCC
Ethics for Social Work
Ethical issues do not exist within a vacuum; rather, they emerge, evolve, and adapt within the sociocultural context of a particular society. In past decades, the field of professional ethics has received increased attention.
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Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 6.00 Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
  • 6.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Providing Culturally Responsive Care to Asian Immigrants
As the United States is becoming increasingly multicultural, and with the Asian American and immigrant population increasing at a phenomenal rate, practitioners will inevitably confront racially, ethnically, and culturally different clients in their clinical practice.
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Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 10.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Conducting Culturally Sensitive Psychosocial Research
The reality is that practitioners, including nurses, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and mental health workers, observe and interact with a variety of social problems and generally have questions about: the magnitude of the problem; the psychosocial ramifications on individual
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Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 5.00 ANCC
  • 5.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

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