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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define "Long COVID" and its implications for mental health.

  • Identify patients who may benefit from psychological intervention.

  • Describe treatment options and potential benefits for patients.

  • Discuss case examples to illustrate evidence-based practice.

Course Summary

This webinar, hosted as part of the Find Empathy Behavioral Medicine Series, features Dr. Elisabeth Nickels, a counseling psychologist specializing in health and rehabilitation psychology, discussing the psychological impacts of Long COVID. Dr. Nickels, who works at the Long COVID Clinic at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shares her expertise on how Long COVID affects both physiological health and mental well-being. She identifies patients who may benefit from psychological interventions, outlines various treatment options drawing from her clinical experience, and emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to managing Long COVID. The webinar underscores the potential for recovery through a combination of medical treatment and psychological support, aiming to provide hope and actionable guidance for patients and healthcare providers navigating the challenges of Long COVID.

Course curriculum

Created & Published: May 7, 2024

    1. Course Information

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Course Content

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Attendance Attestation

    4. Psychological Intervention for Patients with Long COVID - Post Test

    5. Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $27.00

Instructor

Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Elisabeth Nickels, PhD

Elisabeth Nickels, Ph.D., is a counseling psychologist with expertise in health and rehabilitation psychology. She specializes in adjustment to acute and chronic illness, injury and disability, chronic pain management and health psychology intervention. Dr. Nickels obtained a master of arts degree and a master’s degree in education in psychological counseling at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York. She completed a predoctoral internship in psychology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance in New York and then obtained her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow in health psychology and psycho-oncology at Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Her research and clinical interests include the role of social and emotional factors in adjustment, health behaviors and quality of life in the prevention and management of acute and chronic health conditions. With a background in the arts, Dr. Nickels also has experience in teaching and performing music and theater.

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PSYCHOLOGISTS
Find Empathy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Find Empathy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS
Find Empathy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7257. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Find Empathy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
SOCIAL WORKERS
Find Empathy, #1817, 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: 5/14/2023-5/14/2026.   Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.



How to Take this Course & Criteria to Receive CE Credit

To obtain a certificate of completion for continuing education credits associated with this course, please follow the following steps:

  • ENROLL in this course and create an Empathy account

  • COMPLETE the course content

  • TAKE THE POST-TEST assessment and achieve a passing grade of at least 75%

Remember, full attendance is required for all CE activities. This means you will be asked to certify that you listened, watched, or read the entire podcast episode.
Once you have completed the above steps, your course certificate will automatically populate for download and will automatically be sent to the email linked to your account. It can be downloaded immediately and will be available for future download.

Accommodations

It is absolutely critical that our program exemplifies accessibility for all participants.

We seek to ensure all participants are able to fully, equally, and independently access the educational content. Our goal is to have a website that is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. If you have any difficulty navigating the website, we want to know! Please contact us at [email protected].

While our educational offerings are primarily in podcast format, we also provide a written transcript for each course. It will be available on the course landing page and available for download in PDF format.

CE credits require a post-test assessment. The assessment is untimed and provided in writing on the course website. However, for individuals with visual impairments, or those that may benefit from an orally presented post-test and program evaluation, contact us. We will work with you to find an alternative option for completing the course post-test and program evaluation.

We remain available and open to ANY additional requests for format modification or additional assistance.

If any accommodations are needed to enroll or participate in the course, or complete the post-test and course evaluation, please contact us at [email protected].

Access & Expiration Information

COURSE ACCESS
Once enrolled in the course, you will have one year to complete the course and associated post-test. If your access lapses before completing all tasks, you may need to re-enroll.

CERTIFICATE ACCESS
Once you have completed the post-test and program evaluation, your certificate will be immediately available for download. Find Empathy will keep course certificates on file for 7 years. If a certificate is needed log into your Find Empathy account and download it, or contact [email protected].

POST-TEST RETAKE POLICY
You are allotted 3 retries to achieve the acceptable 75% passing grade.

Additional Information

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
This course is intended for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and therapists.

The instructional level is introductory to intermediate. While the course provides a comprehensive overview of traumatic brain injury, professionals need to already have a foundational grasp on therapeutic principles such as CBT and mindfulness in order to adapt those treatments to the specific needs of people living with traumatic brain injury.

COURSE FORMAT
The primary format of the course is a non-interactive distance-learning recorded video or audio continuing education course.

To ensure our course material is accessible, the video includes subtitles.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
There is no known commercial support or conflict of interest for this CE program, content, or its instructor.

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