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Treating the Abusive Partner Register Now
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| Instructor: |
Greg Merrill, LCSW Click to View Biography
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| Number of CEUs: |
7
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| Book: |
Treating the Abusive Partner: An Individualized Cognitive Behavioral Approach by Murphy, Christopher and Eckhardt, Christopher. Potential book vendors: http://www.Cheapesttextbooks.com and http://www.Amazon.com.
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| Fee: |
The price of the book depends on the vendor and many other factors.
The certificate of completion is $25.00, which is paid to NASW-CA.
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| Process: |
Register for the course.
Take the online pre-test.
Purchase and read the book.
Read the online clinical vignettes.
Take the online post-test.
Print the certificate.
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| Course
Description: |
This text-guided course introduces clinical practitioners to the available evidence, the rationale, and clinical methods for providing individualized cognitive-behavioral therapy to abusive partners. After reading the book, registrants will return to this program to read two clinical vignettes with related questions. The purpose of these vignettes is to provide readers the opportunity to apply the concepts to their practice and better prepare them for the post-test. Please see the "Course Outline" for greater detail.
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| Target Audience: |
- Meeting California Licensing Requirements
This course can be used to meet the California State Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) required pre-license and license renewal coursework in "Spousal/Partner Abuse."
- Continuing Education and Professional Development
This course is designed for any licensed social worker or mental health professional who works directly with intimate partner abuse.
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| Learning
Objectives: |
After completing this course, the registrant will:
- Be able to recognize and describe common abusive behaviors and characteristics of abusive partners.
- Better understand the evidence and rationale for individualized cognitive behavioral interventions for abusive partners vs. standard group treatments.
- Be able to interview the client regarding abusive behavior including the background context, situational cues, specific interpretations of events or cues, extent and severity of aggression, and short- and long-term consequences.
- Be able to utilize assessment data to construct an individualized case formulation that contains hypotheses regarding relevant contextual, cognitive, functional, and motivational aspects of abusive behavior, and selects specific intervention targets and methods.
- Be able to identify which stage of change the client appears to be in and effectively respond to his or her resistance to and/or ambivalence about change.
- Be able to introduce clients to common relationship dilemmas and help them to appreciate, learn, and apply relationship skills such as active listening and appropriate self-expression with increased proficiency.
- Be able to introduce clients to common thinking errors that abusive partners make and help them to examine and adjust their beliefs to promote less emotional and behavioral distress.
- Be able to identify when trauma-focused clinical work may be indicated and to think about the safety implications.
- Be able to terminate treatment in a gradual manner that prepares the client for relevant relapse factors.
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Course Agenda: |
Click here to view course agenda
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| Copyright:
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Copyright© 2010. Revised. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing the publisher.
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