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Clinical Assessment Life Stressors & Coping (6 CE hours)

Course Summary

This course gives therapists the tools to assess, understand, and strengthen clients’ coping strategies in response to life’s challenges. This course provides participants with the following:
  • an in-depth study of two assessment tools: the Holmes-Rahe Life Stressors Inventory and the Brief-COPE
  • an understanding of how to incorporate these assessment tools into their clinical practice 
  • Instruction on how to understand the role of life stressors and how to build and strengthen clients’ coping skills
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Course Reviews

“This is a reminder that coping styles are an integral part of assessment in the therapeutic realm. Often overlooked but extremely important.”
     
Deborah Donaldson Wais, California
“This was a very useful course. It helps to learn how to map out the landscape of what is going on in a person's life instead of just the identified stressor. It gave a good perspective to the work and helped with the suicide components the ELM courses.”
     
Victoria Garafola, New York
“Great course! Helpful personally and for my practice. I've already told a few people about the course and hope they take it too!”
     
Emily Perez, California

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Learning objectives

As a result of participating in this training, participants will be able to:
  • Explain the role of stress on mental and physical health
  • Articulate the purpose of the Holmes-Rahe Life Stressors Inventory
  • Interpret different results of a completed Holmes-Rahe Stressors Inventory
  • Describe how the Brief-COPE can be used in clinical work
  • Explain the importance of identifying and strengthening clients’ coping skills

Course outline

  1. Course Introduction
  2. Introduction to the Holmes-Rahe Life Stressors Inventory
  3. Review of the Holmes-Rahe Life Stressors Inventory
  4. Introduction to the Brief-COPE
  5. Review of the Brief-COPE

Instructors

Sharon Greene, LCSW
Sharon Greene, LCSW
Sharon Greene is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Sharon has served as adjunct faculty at University of Southern California and California State University Northridge in the Graduate Social Work Department, and a lecturer at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. She is currently the training director at Providence Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center which is a nonprofit that provides mental health services to children and their families. She has been providing mental health services to children and their families for over 15 years. She is a certified therapist, supervisor and trainer in Interpersonal Psychotherapy by the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Institute. She has been providing training and supervision in this model for more than 5 years and has seen its efficacy in treating clients with multiple psychiatric disorders.
Amanda Rowan, LCSW, Founder and CEO of TDC
Amanda Rowan, LCSW | Founder and CEO
Amanda Rowan is an LCSW and the founder and CEO of the Therapist Development Center. Amanda graduated with honors from Dartmouth College where she majored in Neuroscience. She earned her Master’s in SociaAmanda Rowan is an LCSW and the founder and CEO of the Therapist Development Center. Amanda graduated with honors from Dartmouth College where she majored in Neuroscience. She earned her Master’s in Social Welfare at UCLA. Since founding the Therapist Development Center in 2008, Amanda has prepared more than 100,000 therapists nationwide to pass their state licensing exams. She is a certified Gestalt Therapist who has worked with a wide variety of clients in a range of settings over the past 20 years. She is a highly effective instructor who has a passion for collaborating with seasoned therapists who understand what works because they do it every day.

Who should take this course

This course is appropriate for mental health clinicians at all levels of experience interested in integrating new assessment tools into their clinical practice.

If you are an AMFT, MFT, ASW, or LCSW in California, the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) accepts continuing education credits given through ASWB ACE-approved courses.

CE Credits

6 hours

Price

Course format

Online Self-Paced Recorded Audio Lecture.

How to access this course

Once registered, the course will appear in the participant’s Study Center, where participants can download the handouts and listen to recorded audio lectures.

Certificate of Completion 

The participant will be able to print their certificate of completion immediately after receiving a score of 80% or higher on the posttest and completing the course evaluation.

Grievance & Refund Policy

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ADA Needs

We are happy to accommodate your ADA needs, please email: help@therapistdevelopmentcenter.com.

Date Published

October 2024

Contact Information

Therapist Development Center email: help@therapistdevelopmentcenter.com
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*Please check your state's specific requirements.
Therapist Development Center, provider 1449, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/30/24-5/30/27. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education credits.*

Therapist Development Center is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers SW-0857.

*The Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) accepts continuing education credits given through ASWB ACE-approved courses.
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