Title: Prolonged Grief and Existential Counseling

Description: Counselors need to understand prolonged grief through a phenomenological, holistic, and relational lens so they can develop a blueprint for understanding and effectively treating it (Ivers et al., 2024). The authors of this professional development explore how existential perspectives and principles provide a clinically useful explanation for the presence and etiology of many of the symptoms of prolonged grief. Counselors who register for this continuing education will learn about the historical and contemporary conceptualizations of and treatment for prolong grief. They will also understand prolong grief from a phenomenological, holistic and relational lens and apply existential conceptualizations of prolonged grief to formulate integrated, flexible, and culturally responsive treatment plans.

Title: Responding to Crisis: Police and Counselors Collaboration

Presenters: Aprille Woodson, PhD, JD, LAPC, NCC and Major Donnie James

Description: Some encounters between people with mental illness in crisis and the police can turn fatal for either or both parties. Collaboration between counselors and police is vital to successful resolution of such crisis interventions. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to know what crisis intervention is and how it differs from de-escalation, understand the training, skills, and roles of police officers in responding to crisis interventions, and explain the roles of counselors in crisis intervention training and the collaborative partnership with law enforcement.

Title: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Presenter: Todd F. Lewis, PhD

Description: In this webinar, Todd F. Lewis, PH.D., LPC, NCC, discuss schizophrenia spectrum disorders and disorders that “look like” schizophrenia but do not fully meeting the criteria as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. He provides an overview of symptoms and key features, and discusses how to distinguish schizophrenia from other disorders on the spectrum. Dr. Lewis is an associate professor of Counseling and Counselor Education at North Dakota State University. This is the fifth webinar in a series of seven about the DSM-5.

Title: The SLO Movement, The Bigger Picture of Program Evaluation, and Identifying Objectives and Mapping Curricula and Processes of Program Evaluation, and Identifying Objectives and Mapping Curricula and Processes

Authors: Casey A. Barrio Minton, PhD; Donna M. Gibson, PhD; and Carrie A. Wachter Morris, PhD

Description: Provided is a brief review of accountability and SLO assessment movements in higher education, a general program evaluation model, illustrate ways in which these processes link with the types of data you will utilize in program evaluation, and identify resources for learning more about the big-picture program evaluation process, explore what we mean by SLOs and discuss the process of creating SLOs to guide program and course assessment processes. Attention to curriculum mapping as a means for ensuring that curricula includes the types of experiences students need to develop SLOs, and procedures and tools for crafting broad-based, curriculum-linked, SLO-focused assessment plans.

Title: Using the DSM-5 in Clinical Practice

Presenters: Stephanie F. Dailey, EdD and John P. Duggan, EdD

Description: In this webinar, Dr. Dailey reviews updates to the DSM-5 and how the ICD-9 and ICD-10 are represented in the new book. Participants will learn the history behind the updates, and then see examples of the new codes and learn how to accurately choose the correct codes for clients.

Title: What Counselors Should Know about the DSM-5-TR

Presenters: Carman Gill, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS; Casey A. Barrio Minton, PhD, NCC; Shannon Karl, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC, CCMHC, ACS

Description: In March 2022, the American Psychiatric Association released the DSM-5-TR. This revision includes a new Prolonged Grief Disorder; more than 70 modified criteria sets; integration of more nuanced considerations regarding race, gender identity, and discrimination; and diagnostic attention to Suicidal Behavior and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury. Presenters will provide a brief description of changes in the DSM-5-TR with special attention to those most relevant for counseling practice and counselor education, including information from APA’s Supplementals.