Training Topics

Fundamental Topics In Clinical Practice

• Crisis Intervention and Levels of Care

• Assessment I: Presenting Problems, Personal History, DSM/ICD Diagnoses

• Fundamental Concepts & Interventions of Therapy I: Therapeutic Alliance, Empathy & Expectations

• Professional Ethics I: Boundaries, Mandated Reporting, Duty to Warn/Protect & Confidentiality

• Assessment II: Treatment Planning, Documentation & Psychological Testing

• Fundamental Concepts & Interventions of Therapy II: Reflection, Clarification & Reframing

• Professional Ethics II: Multiple Relationships, Self-Disclosure & Countertransference

• Theories of Therapy

• Lifespan Development & Psychotherapy

• Psychopharmacology

• Social & Cultural Factors in Psychotherapy

• Affirming Clinical Care

• Couple & Partnership Therapy

• Fundamental Approaches to Interdisciplinary Care

• Research & Psychotherapy

Intermediate Topics in Clinical Practice

• Relational Safety and Navigating Domestic Violence

• Harm Reduction & Abstinence Substance Use Treatment

• Short-Term Psychotherapy

• Child, Family & Play Therapy

• Creative Arts & Psychotherapy

• Termination in Treatment

• Sexual Health: intentionality & intimacy

• Complex PTSD: clinical conceptualization & application

• Death & Dying: clinical, ethical & pain management

• Billing, Credentialing & Financial Factors in Clinical Work

• Military Mental Health

• Performance Anxiety in the Arts & Sports

• Relational Psychoanalysis

• Acceptance Commitment Therapy

• Dialectic Behavioral Therapy

• Family/Systems Therapy

• Emotion-Focused Therapy

• Existential-Humanistic Therapy