Join us for a 4-part, 8-continuing education dive into DSM Diagnosing Made Clear.  When you buy the full term you get a Bonus recorded session for 2 hours of Independent Study CEs.

Spring: 

    • February 19: Overview of DSM Diagnosing and Important Concepts: Narrow Your Differential Diagnosis Quickly and Focus on the Most Likely Diagnosis

    • March 20: Overview of Diagnosing: Mood, Psychosis and Depression

    • April 23: Overview of Diagnosing: Trauma and Other Stressor-Related Diagnoses Compared with Anxiety,

    • May 21: Diagnoses found in children

    • Bonus: Diagnoses that require more comprehensive assessment, and what you need to know as a more general practitioner

This series of live Continuing Education is aimed at early-career practitioners.  In the first seminar, you will be given a way to quickly narrow down your possible diagnoses, so that you can focus on the differential between the few most likely to be correct.  We then spend 2 sessions covering the remainder of the chapters in the DSM that are often diagnosed in adults in general-practice mental health settings.  Session 4 will include diagnoses found in children, including the childhood presentation of diagnoses that are also common in adults, like anxiety, as well as those diagnoses that must be diagnosed while the person is a child.  Lastly, as a bonus, we will cover diagnoses that are rarely diagnosed in a general practice mental health setting, but which a therapist must be familiar with, so that they can make appropriate referrals. 

Future terms of the Knowledge Base will include treatment planning, interventions, evaluation, growth and development, behavior in the social environment, diversity, clinical interventions, psychotherapy and case management, social work intervention and service delivery, consultation and collaboration, professional values and ethics, confidentiality, professional development and use of self, dual relationships, boundaries, NASW Code of Ethics and the Minnesota Practice Act.

Across two years, we will cover the major themes covered in the ASWB Clinical Exam, as well as meet the Minnesota Board of Social Work CE requirements for two-year license renewal. The goal is to help you improve your practice now, and keep you familiar with your MSW education you'll need for the test at the end of your supervised practice.