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Continuing Education Series

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Each webinar explores a timely topic with the author of a book published by APA

This series features APA authors who are active researchers and practitioners. Deepen your knowledge as presenters highlight their recent publications in their respective fields of study.

All programs include closed captioning.

Live programs include PowerPoint presentation, Q&A with the presenter, and may include interactive polling, video clips, and other resources.

After the live air date, webinars are converted to on-demand programs, which offer the opportunity to earn CE credits by completing a test.

Programs in this series have been reviewed and approved by the APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology. 

The American Psychological Association is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0100. Programs meet NYSED requirements unless otherwise specified.

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In this series

The Evolving Landscape of Trauma-Relevant Assessment in Adults
Differentiate trauma types and exposure patterns and review trauma-focused assessment tools
June 2026
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
Getting Constructive in Psychotherapy
Introduces and examines the key therapeutic aims and techniques of constructive therapy
May 2026
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
The Interpersonal Situation: Contemporary Interpersonal Theory, Assessment, and Psychotherapy
Provides a broad overview of core assumptions, methods, evidence, and application of interpersonal theory to clinical practice
April 2026
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
ADHD Coaching: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Explains how to integrate ADHD coaching fundamentals into current cognitive-behavioral therapy framework
February 2026
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
Mixing Methods: Exploring the Compatibility of Interviews With Experimental Designs
Discuss experimental mixed methods designs and using interviews for your experimental research project
November 2025
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
A Universal Approach to Crises: Using the Process of Change
Explain the bases of a process approach to crises and to rapid, transformative change
October 2025
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
Decolonizing Trauma Healing: A New Paradigm
Explore how to challenge the pathologizing of human responses and distress when a person is trauma-exposed
April 2025
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
Therapeutic Relationship-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Discuss core elements of the therapeutic relationship and their relevance in cognitive behavioral therapy
March 2025
1.5 CE credits
$60.00
for member price
Transform Your Guilt and Shame: An Evidence-Based Self-Guided Resource for Healing From Trauma and Adversity
Explain why guilt and shame are common following trauma and adversity, and identify unhealthy guilt and shame.
February 2025
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Solution-Focused Therapy
Set a direction for therapy by identifying what clients want from services, and obtain a detailed description of the client’s preferred future.
January 2024
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Complex Depression: What Is it and What to Do About It
Explain how personality processes, particularly psychodynamic and social-cognitive ones, interact with the social environment to create complex manifestations of depression.
January 2024
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Focused Brief Group Therapy: An Integrative Interpersonal Approach
Describe the importance of the therapy, pregroup preparation, and screening session (the pre-group individual meeting) in focused brief group therapy.
December 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Pathological Lying: Theory, Research, and Practice
Explain the need to consider pathological lying as a diagnostic entity, and define and discuss pathological lying by providing theory and research.
December 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Updates About Assessing Dissociative Clients and Implications for Treatment
Identify the prevalence of pathological dissociation in the general population, and describe three types of dissociative symptoms.
December 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Assessing and Treating Personality Pathology in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Era
This webinar describes the DSM-5 and ICD-11 frameworks for assessing and diagnosing personality pathology, with special attention paid to the shift from categorical to dimensional models that were present within earlier diagnostic manuals.
April 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
What is Cultural Competence From a Psychoanalytic Perspective?
Recognize how psychoanalytic theory informs and deepens an understanding of sociocultural context in psychotherapy.
February 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Treatment of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Depression
Describe the complexity of the construct of clinical depression, and its implications for models of risk and resilience, and review the major established psychological and social risk factors for depression.
January 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Grief Isn’t Something to Get Over
Through psychological research and personal stories, the grief process is examined for its underlying memories and emotions and its impact upon an individual's future path, identity, and self-definition.
January 2023
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
2021 Changes to the Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dementia and Age-Related Cognitive Change
Provides an overview of relevant changes in diagnostic criteria, and nomenclature and updated information about the biological underpinnings of neurodegenerative diseases.
November 2022
1.5 CE credits
$45.00
for member price
Personalizing Psychotherapy: Assessing and Accommodating Patient Preferences
Assess a client’s treatment and relationship preferences in ways that can improve outcomes, and apply the evidence-based method of patient preferences to individualize psychotherapy for each patient.
May 2022
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Emotional Suffering into Flourishing With AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)
Name three Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy interventions for undoing aloneness, and describe how metatherapeutic processing contributes to in-session flourishing.
March 2022
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Prediction Statistics for Psychological Assessment
Discuss the meaning of commonly used prediction statistics in psychology.
January 2022
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Creating Strengths-Based Approaches to Reduce Public Health Problems
Describe at least two ways that specific strengths-based prevention can improve upon current limitations in prevention effectiveness.
January 2022
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
The Ethical Lives of Clients: Our Role as Therapists
Learn to apply traditional therapist skills to an area that many of us are skittish about because we are concerned about respecting client autonomy.
January 2022
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Sexual Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy
The intent of this workshop is to promote information, clarification and discussion on the topic of sexual boundary violations in the clinical context in an effort to avert them and their often tragic consequences which tend to get downplayed.
January 2022
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Group Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Identify the key elements of a transdiagnostic approach to case formulation that inform treatment goals.
April 2021
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Integrated Behavioral Strategies for Pain and Opioid Management
Apply whole-person treatment strategies to help minimize pain and psychological distress when opioid deprescribing.
April 2021
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Addressing Moral Injury in Clinical Practice: Summary of Emerging Evidence and Approaches
Summarize the state of the evidence on moral injury and describing promising approaches to addressing this condition in clinical practice.
April 2021
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Integrated Primary Care: Improving the Care of Patients With Chronic Health Conditions
Provides an overview of the primary care behavioral health (PCBH) model of integration, a population health, team-based approach for improving the care of primary care patients.
December 2020
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Integrating Behavioral Medicine for Pain into Your Care Plan: A Workshop for Psychologists
Provides a high-level foundational overview of the role of psychology in the experience and treatment of pain.
July 2020
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
Psycho-oncology in Practice: Psychological Treatment of Medical Patients With Cancer
Assess the basic psychological needs of cancer patients across a broad spectrum of diagnoses and stages of disease.
April 2020
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price
CBT Outside the Box: Tips and Tools for Multicultural Practice
Designed to help you practice cognitive behavior therapy in culturally responsive ways, and apply cognitive restructuring in culturally responsive ways via specific strategies that facilitate treatment success.
April 2020
1.5 CE credits
$50.00
for member price

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