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Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention

TARGET AUDIENCE: Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Course Description
This 2 (two) hour online continuing education course in Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention is FREE for mental health professionals. It covers some common myths about suicide, suicide statistics, how to perform a basic suicide risk assessment, how to complete a suicide prevention action plan, and how to implement basic de-escalation strategies in a therapeutic crisis situation.

Suicide Prevention Course Objectives

Identify and refute some common myths about suicide
Identify some of the early warning signs of a potential suicide attempt
Be able to discuss some current statistics regarding suicide
Be able to discuss some age group differences regarding suicide
Be able to conduct a basic suicide risk assessment
Be able to discuss and refute some common myths about suicide
Be able to discuss the PPI method of suicide risk assessment
Be able to complete a Suicide Prevention Action Plan
Be able to complete a No-Harm Contract and Action Plan
Be able to use the Suicide-Homicide Ideation Decision Flowchart
Define “de-escalation”
Discuss the importance of de-escalation strategies in crisis prevention
Describe and be able to use the LEAP de-escalation model
Identify and use some common resources on suicide prevention

Course Format
There is a 2-hour video for this course, including several handouts and worksheets used in suicide risk assessment and suicide prevention. After watching the video and reviewing the worksheets you may take the final exam for the course. Upon successful completion of the quiz with a score of 80% or higher, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for the course good for two online continuing education hours.

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Ecospirituality: The Way of the Coyote

TARGET AUDIENCE: General Public (Coaching Course)

Course Description

Ecospirituality connects people to the healing power of nature using the Way of the Coyote. This 16-week journey towards ecospirituality uses the skills of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy to teach students and practitioners how to live in True Self according to their own true nature.

In this coaching certification course, you will complete the journey while learning all the skills you would need to facilitate an ecospirituality group of your own. This coaching course is designed for people who are not mental health professionals. Completing the certification qualifies you to lead a coaching program in Ecospirituality: The Way of the Coyote.

Ecospirituality: The Way of the Coyote Workbook

Ecospirituality isn’t about a particular religious or spiritual path. The word “spirit” comes from the Latin “spiritus,” which simply means, “to breathe.” It’s where we get the word “inspiration.” Ecospirituality teaches us to seek those breathtaking moments of inspiration, using nature as our guide.

The ecospirituality program is based on the workbook, Ecospirituality: The Way of the Coyote. The complete text of this workbook is included in the course.

The Ecospirituality: The Way of the Coyote program is a coaching program for people who are not licensed mental health professionals, but who wish to be certified coaches in ecospirituality. You do not have to be a counselor or therapist to take this course, or to become a certified ecospirituality coach.

If you are a licensed mental health professional, this course is good for 40 online and experiential continuing education hours (SC Permanent Sponsor #495).

If you are a licensed mental health professional you may wish to consider the Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Facilitator Certification course instead, which offers 60 online continuing education hours.

Included in this course:

Ecospirituality: The Way of the Coyote – 33 online and experiential continuing education hours
Running a Successful Group – 5 online continuing education hours
Coaching vs. Counseling: Avoiding Liability – 2 online continuing education hours

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Mindfulness: An Introduction

TARGET AUDIENCE: Licensed Mental Health Professionals

DESCRIPTION

Mindfulness: An Introduction is a 15-hour online and experiential continuing education course for mental health professionals. Mindfulness: An Introduction offers an introduction to some of the skills of mindfulness, discusses how these skills may be used in a therapeutic setting, and discusses some forms of therapy that integrate mindfulness with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The course also includes some experiential exercises so the student may try the skills.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Discuss and describe the concept of Mindfulness
Differentiate between Doing Mode and Being Mode
Discuss Differentiation and how it relates to Mindfulness
Discuss Individuation and how it relates to Mindfulness
Discuss emotional regulation and how it relates to Mindfulness
Discuss and describe Emotional Mind, Rational Mind, and Wise Mind
Discuss the process of Externalization and how it relates to Mindfulness
Discuss and describe Positive and Negative Thought Streams
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of Observing
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of Describing
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of Fully Participating
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of Being Non-Judgmental
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of Focusing on One Thing at a Time
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of Being Effective
Describe and discuss the Mindful Skill of the Power of Intention
Describe and discuss the dialectic of Acceptance vs. Change
Describe and discuss Mindful Acceptance
Describe and discuss Letting Go
Be able to conduct a basic Mindful Meditation
Discuss how Mindfulness may be used with CBT
Discuss several Mindfulness-Based forms of therapy

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Ecotherapy: An Introduction

TARGET AUDIENCE: Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Course Description

This Ecotherapy: An Introduction course is for therapists and counselors with little or no experience in ecotherapy.

Ecopsychology is the study of how the natural world impacts our mental wellbeing. Ecotherapy is the therapeutic application of this knowledge. This 10-hour online and experiential course will introduce you to some of the basic skills, techniques and research in the field of ecotherapy.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing this Ecotherapy: An Introduction course, the student will be able to:

Discuss and describe the concept of Ecopsychology
Discuss and describe the concept of Ecotherapy
Differentiate between Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy
Discuss some of the characteristics of the Green Care model
Describe a rationale for the use of ecotherapy in therapeutic settings
Discuss the history of ecotherapy
Discuss the roots of ecotherapy in indigenous shamanism
Discuss Nature Deficit Disorder as proposed in the book, Last Child in the Woods by Louv
Describe and discuss some types of ecotherapy interventions
Describe some of the research into Nature as Nurture
Discuss some research in Nature and Child Development
Discuss the Eco-Educative Model of Ecotherapy proposed by Pedretti-Burls (2007)
Discuss how ecotherapy facilitates mindful states
Discuss some health benefits of ecotherapy
Discuss ecotherapy for treating addiction
Discuss ecotherapy for treating trauma
Describe and discuss some ethical issues of ecotherapy
Name some colleges that offer ecotherapy programs
Discuss some future directions for ecotherapy

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Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Facilitator Certification Course

The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Facilitator Certification Course is a blend of mindfulness and ecotherapy.

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TARGET AUDIENCE: Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Course Description

Have you ever been camping, hiking or canoeing? Do you enjoy hunting and fishing? If so, you are probably already aware of nature’s power to relax and heal. A large and growing body of research demonstrates that nature is good for the mind as well as the body. Ecopsychology is the study of nature’s ability to heal. Ecotherapy is the application of ecopsychology in a therapeutic setting.

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the moment in which you find yourself by focusing on your immediate experience, rather than on ruminations that may be producing stress depression, or anxiety. The benefits of mindfulness as a tool for stress reduction and self-improvement have been thoroughly researched. Mindfulness works so well in this capacity that it has been referred to as the “penicillin of mental health.”

Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy is a result of combining the skills of mindfulness with the healing power of nature.

MBE is used as a framework for helping individuals and families to find deeper connections in their own lives, and to give more meaning and enjoyment to the activities of daily living. By re-integrating ourselves with nature, we are able to tap into nature’s healing power and to heal the earth as we heal ourselves.

The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Workbook and the Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Workshop series were developed by Charlton Hall, MMFT, LMFT/S, RPT-S, CHt as a 12-week program to help individuals re-connect with the healing power of nature. The series meets once per week for 90 minutes, usually in an outdoor setting.

This Facilitator Certification Course qualifies you to be a Certified Instructor of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy. The course is 60 hours long and includes continuing education in the following:

Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy in Clinical Practice – 25 hours
Mindfulness: An Introduction – 15 hours
Ecotherapy: An Introduction – 10 hours
Running a Successful Group – 10 hours

This Certified Facilitator Training Package contains all four courses/modules required to complete the training and become a Certified Facilitator of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy.

Upon successful completion of all required courses of the Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification Program, you will be issued a Certificate of Completion for 60 hours of online and experiential education indicating that you are now a Certified Facilitator, and you will receive a free listing on our Certified Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Facilitators Directory page.

MBE Facilitator Certification Course Description