DSM-5 and ICD Trainings
The DSM-5 is now available, and the federal government has recently mandated the use of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) beginning in 2014.
If you are the member of an organization, agency or association, and would like to offer a professional development workshop on the DSM-5 or ICD in your area, those workshops are now available to you through the co-sponsorship of the APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology. Full-day and half-day workshops are available at this time. Presenters can be scheduled to accommodate the dates and locations of your agency or organization. Workshops are subject to presenters' availability.
All workshops include CE credits through APA's Office of Continuing Education in Psychology. The services of APA CEP office are supported exclusively by a CE service fee, paid by the organization, agency or association at the rate of $25 per participant in any full-day workshop (6 hours or more) and $15 per participant in any program less than 6 hours in duration. APA CEP office will also provide select marketing support for all workshops.
About the roles and responsibilities of the host organization and APA (PDF, 128KB)
Interested individuals or organizations, agencies or associations may contact us.
Presenters
Christopher Hopwood, PhD, is an assistant professor of clinical psychology at Michigan State University and licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Michigan. He received his PhD from Texas A&M University and completed his clinical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has been active on research related to the classification of personality disorders for several years, and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Personality Assessment.
K. Dayle Jones, PhD, is associate professor and coordinator of the Mental Health Counseling program at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches courses on assessment and diagnosis of mental disorders. She is a member of the World Health Organization's International Advisory Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) section on Mental and Behavioural Disorders. She chaired the American Counseling Association's DSM-5 Proposed Revisions Task Force, and was column editor for Counseling Today's "Inside the DSM-5" series.
Scheduled Trainings
June
June 22
Mental health professionals need information about changes in the DSM-5. The presenter will describe its development process, changes to the organizational structure, major revisions to existing diagnoses and the addition of new disorders. Participants will also be informed about ICD, its designation as HIPAA’s official codebook for diagnosing mental disorders, and its relationship to DSM-5.
July
July 20
Mental health professionals need information about changes in the DSM-5. The presenter will describe its development process, changes to the organizational structure, major revisions to existing diagnoses and the addition of new disorders. Participants will also be informed about ICD, its designation as HIPAA’s official codebook for diagnosing mental disorders, and its relationship to DSM-5.
