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CE CREDITS 2.5 CE CREDITS 5 NEW! Making Professional Ethics Practical Presented by Jeffrey Ashby In this workshop, participants will review ethical theories and models of ethical decision making relevant to psychological practice. Special emphasis will be placed on developing professionals’ understanding of decision-making processes used in arriving at ethical courses of action in four primary areas of emphasis in professional ethics codes. 2011. MEMBER $62.50 CE CREDITS 4 NONMEMBER $87.50 NEW! Suicide: Understanding and Treating the Self-Destructive Processes—Assessment/Treatment, Legal/Ethical Issues Presented by Lisa Firestone Considering the fact that one in five clinical psychologists loses a client to suicide in their clinical career, there is a clear need for more extensive training at the postgraduate level and in the management and treatment of suicidal patients. This intermediate workshop provides an indepth understanding of the dynamic of the legal, ethical, and case-management issues when dealing with suicidal clients. Further discussion of case studies and assessment instruments provides participants with practical skill enhancements that can be directly applied in their practice. 2011. MEMBER $125 CE CREDITS 2.5 NONMEMBER $175 Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy Presented by Lisa Firestone This workshop addresses barriers to achieving intimate relationships and offers methods for overcoming them. Videotapes illustrate cognitive/affective/behavioral methodology that challenges destructive thought processes and leads to closer personal relating and a heightened sense of individuality. (This program contains graphic language and discussions on sexual violence.) 2010. MEMBER $100 CE CREDITS 1.5 NONMEMBER $140 NEW! Traumatic Stress Among Individuals Living With HIV/AIDS Presented by Cheryl Gore-Felton In this INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE workshop, participants will explore the relationship between trauma and HIV/AIDS. Topics covered include: (a) the effects of trauma on sexual risk taking; (b) the ways in which trauma affects HIV disease management; and (c) evidence-based approaches to integrating trauma treatment among people with HIV/AIDS who report psychological distress. Case vignettes are used to highlight interpersonal and contextual factors that influence evidence-based treatment approaches applicable to clinical practice. 2011. MEMBER $62.50 CE CREDITS 2 NONMEMBER $87.50 25 NEW! Psychology in the Corporate World: Embracing the Challenge Presented by Paul Banikiotes and Florence Gorsky The value and benefit that psychologists can provide in corporate settings is reviewed, and barriers that exist to hamper psychologists from fully utilizing their skills in corporate settings are discussed. The roles that psychologists currently fill in the corporate world are described as is a broader range of human services activities within these corporate settings—services currently not often provided by psychologists. 2011. MEMBER $37.50 CE CREDITS 2 NONMEMBER $52.50 Twenty Principles of Success in Mental Health Practice Presented by Steven Walfish This course presents an overview of each of the Twenty Principles of Private Practice Success presented in the Walfish and Barnett book Financial Success in Mental Health Practice: Essential Tools and Strategies for Practitioners (APA Books, 2008), which aim for a clinically effective and financially sound private practice. 2010. MEMBER $50 NONMEMBER $70 Relational Self Presented by Ken Gergan Ken Gergan explores the implications of the “self” as fundamentally relational, rather than independent or autonomous. He explores the intriguing implications of the relational self for a wide range of human interactions, including marital relationships, therapeutic relationships, and broader social, cultural, and political relationships. 2010. MEMBER $50 NONMEMBER $70

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - January 2012

Monitor on Psychology - January 2012
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
Contents
From the CEO
Apa’s Statement on the Dsm-5 Development Process
Girl Scouts Badge Promotes Positive Psychology
Early Investments Pay Off for Poor Children, Study Finds
Apa Meets With Chinese Psychological Society to Further Interaction and Exchange
Unique Opportunity for Psychologists to Travel to Cuba
In Brief
Government Relations Update
On Your Behalf
Psychology’s Growing Library of Podcasts
Standing Up for Psychology
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Questionnaire
Science Watch
Beyond Psychotherapy
Perspective on Practice
Yes, Recovery Is Possible
Inequity to Equity
Making E-Learning Work
New Standards for High School Psychology
A Trailblazer Moves On
Psychologist Profile
Plan Now for Psychology’s Regional Meetings
New Journal Editors
Apa News
Division Spotlight
American Psychological Foundation
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - January 2012