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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

  • Describe the prevalence and basic facts about depression and suicide within the multiple sclerosis population.

  • Using sample case examples, describe risk factors for suicidal thinking, as well as protective factors, and will be able to determine when further evaluation of an individual is necessary.

  • Apply a decision tree model to determine when and how to take appropriate action for intervention and referral for treatment.

Course Summary

This course is designed for all mental health professionals who run virtual online groups. It equips professionals with the skills to assess and address suicide risk among participants, particularly those expressing thoughts of suicide. The course is highly relevant for those leading educational groups or providing group coaching.

Key Benefits:
  • Comprehensive Training: Learn to distinguish between clinical roles and coaching or educator roles, even when discussing sensitive topics like depression.
  • Specialized Content: Developed with and for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, the course offers insights through the lens of participants living with chronic illnesses such as MS, yet the principles are universally applicable.
  • Practical Application: Instructors demonstrate how to apply these concepts to various populations beyond MS, ensuring broad relevance and utility.
  • PSYPACT: The course can be used towards the continuing education needed for E.Passport renewal as it is relevant to the use of technology (online virtual groups) in psychology.

By taking this course, you will enhance your ability to support participants in virtual groups who may be at risk of suicide, improving outcomes and providing crucial support.

Course curriculum

Created & Published: October 3, 2024

    1. Course Information

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Course Content

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Attendance Attestation

    4. Depression and Suicide Training - Post Test

    5. Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $27.00

Instructor

Associate Professor Deborah Miller, PhD, LISW

Deborah M. Miller, PhD, LISW, is a Professional Staff member at the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research at Cleveland Clinic and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and has been part of the Mellen Center's interdisciplinary-care team since 1985. Dr. Miller's expertise lies in marital and family adjustment to multiple sclerosis (MS) and health services research, particularly in developing and validating quality-of-life assessment tools for MS patients. She has led significant initiatives, including the development of telehealth interventions for MS care and clinical practice guidelines for MS treatment. Dr. Miller has served as a principal investigator and co-investigator on various nationally funded research projects and holds a prominent role in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, where she was inducted into the Health Care Professionals and Researchers Volunteer Hall of Fame in 2005.

Senior Programs Consultant Rosalind Kalb, PhD

Rosalind Kalb, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in MS care, support and education for over 30 years. After receiving her doctorate from Fordham University in 1977, she began her career in MS, providing individual, group, and family therapy at the Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for MS at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and then at the MS Comprehensive Care Center in White Plains, NY. Dr. Kalb joined the National MS Society in 2000, creating online resources and educational materials for individuals and families living with MS and healthcare professionals until 2017. She continues her resource development work for the Society as a consultant. Dr.Kalb is senior author of Multiple Sclerosis for Dummies (2nd ed.), and co-author of Multiple Sclerosis: Understanding the Cognitive Challenges. In addition, Dr. Kalb has edited two books–Multiple Sclerosis: The Questions You Have; The Answers You Need, now in its 5th edition, and Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide for Families, now in its 3rd edition. Dr. Kalb has also served as a Can Do program consultant since 2001.

Clinical Psychologist Meghan Beier, PhD

Dr. Beier is a rehabilitation neuropsychologist in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins. Featured in publications such as People Magazine, Psychology Today, AARP she is a nationally recognized expert on how mood and cognition impact people living with multiple sclerosis. She is also the founder of Find Empathy, findempathy.com, an online directory and educational platform that helps connect people with chronic medical conditions to therapists who understand their diagnosis.

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Approved CE Provider

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 1.25 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.

QUESTIONS?
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If you have any questions, concerns, or grievances please email us at [email protected].

You can also see our grievance policy via the following link: https://findempathy.com/grievance

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