Course Description:

The latest neuroscience evidence shows that emotion is largely a social construct, often created in the moment and processed using the context of our lives, and influenced by systems in the body as well as culture and family. You play a significant role in how your emotional life is expressed and this has implications with clients, mental illness diagnoses, and the psychopharmacological medical model of diagnosing mental illness.
Come learn the neuroscience behind this discovery and how emotions impact disease, the legal system, and the role trauma plays in emotional dysregulation. Come learn techniques for developing emotional intelligence and the ramifications on all of this when diagnosing depression and other mood and trauma based disorders such as anxiety, adjustment disorders, and PTSD. A review of treatment protocols that support this new finding will be reviewed, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
APRNS, RNs, LPNs, LMHTs will earn 6 contact hours. Social workers, LPCs, LCPCs, and psychologists will earn 6 diagnosis contact hours. ACHAs will earn 6 (RC) contact hour.

Approval is pending for 5.5 hours for occupational and physical therapists.