On-Demand CE Training
As a helping professional, you're required to take a certain amount of CE trainings each licensure cycle, but they tend to be costly, non-engaging, and lackluster. On-demand/self-paced courses are extremely convenient, but who wants to read copious volumes of boring text? Are you ready for a change and to experience the new world of CE trainings?
By incorporating mixed media, videos, and other innovative learning strategies, CEU Creations makes these required trainings affordable, engaging, and informative. Enjoy the convenience of our virtual, on-demand trainings from the comfort of your own home.
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ODL 200: Verbal and Emotional De-escalation
1 Credit hour: Helping professionals serve on the front lines in every practice setting, dedicating themselves to assisting others in the most challenging and uncertain circumstances. It is essential that clinicians acquire the skills and techniques necessary to de-escalate tense situations. This one-hour course will be jam-packed with an overview of de-escalation Techniques.

ODL 201: Evidence-Based Mental Health Therapy Modalities: An Overview of CBT, DBT and MBT
5 Credit Hours: Clinicians require a vast array of therapeutic tools, approaches, and skills to provide evidence-based treatment to the patients and clients. Join expert clinicians for this introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). Attendees will gain evidence-based practice information and skills to incorporate into their everyday practice.

ODL 202: Living with Cognitive Impairment – Personal Perspectives
1 Credit Hour: More than 16 million people in the United States are living with cognitive impairment. With age being the greatest risk factor, this number is expected to dramatically increase as the Baby Boomer generation passes the age of 65. In this one-hour discussion, we hear from two people living with cognitive impairment who are finding purposeful and joyful living.

ODL 203: Turning Awareness into Advocacy: Health Disparities in the LGBTQ+ Community
2 Credit Hours: Helping professionals and healthcare providers are trusted with the important role of caring for people during what can be vulnerable moments, and it is imperative that they practice with competence and humility. In this honest conversation, M. Greg Green, Author and Advocate, will provide an overview of the LGBTQ+ community, their diverse health needs, and the bias that they can experience in the systems in which we practice.

ODL 204: Perspectives From the Front Lines: What Helping Professionals Can Learn from a Care Partner
2 Credit Hours: How often do you look through the lens of the care partner or caregiver of your clients? This thought-provoking course covers all topics of being a care partner to someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s. This training is packed with many practical tips that can help with the day-to-day care of a loved one.

ODL 205: Spirituality, Cultural Humility, and Ethics for the Helping Professional
5 Credit Hours: This training will discuss utilizing spirituality and cultural humility in the clinical setting. The training will provide a rationale for integrating a spiritual approach as we provide support for our clients and patients, along with the ethical role of the helping professional in working with diverse populations. The second half of the presentation will focus on cultural humility. Embarking on a journey of critical self-reflection, discovery, and humility.

ODL 206: DSM-5 Overview with Ethical Perspectives: A Workshop for Social Workers, Nurses, Case Managers, Counselors & Other Professionals
5 Credit Hours: This course provides a DSM-5 “tune-up” – where we go back to the basics and review some of the major content areas and psychiatric disorders. This course focuses on some of the major content areas of the DSM-5 - going over disorders, criteria and breaking them down for a better understanding. In addition, the course reviews ethical frameworks for social workers, case managers, nurses and counselors.

ODL 208: The Inequality in Healthcare: A Systems Theory Approach through a Social Work Lens
1 Credit Hour: Inequalities in healthcare is an issue that affects every single person. This course will provide a brief overview of those inequalities in the healthcare system. Understanding the whole system will provide insights that will help healthcare professionals and social workers recognize and combat the inequalities that create barriers to quality care.

ODL 210: A Deeper Dive: Mandatory Reporting for Child Abuse and Elder Abuse
All states designate certain professionals as mandated reporters. Some states even require that all citizens report. Those of us in the helping professions are amongst those that are mandated reporters of child and elder abuse. This event will dive deeper into case scenarios using federal and a variety of state guidelines, so all participants leave feeling confident about reporting child and elder abuse.

ODL 211: Communication and Ethics of Self-Care
2 Credit Hours: Most individuals decide to enter the helping professions because of a deep commitment to help others. As we communicate with our clients/patients on the importance of self-care as a prerequisite for wellbeing, many of us are experiencing compassion fatigue or burnout. In this invigorating presentation, Jenny Buckley, RN, BSN, CHPN, will discuss the necessity for self-care as an ethical imperative, strategies for practicing self-care, and communication best-practices to promote self-care in your professional practice.

ODL 212: Ethics of Confidentiality and Diversity Considerations
5 Credit Hours: School social workers and other professionals working in the school setting have many factors to consider in their work with students and families. Understanding ethics regarding confidentiality of minors in school settings is important for best practices and ethical decision making. Diversity considerations in school settings will also be explored. Implicit bias, cultural competence, and specific dynamics of culture in schools will be presented.

ODL 213: Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Healthcare Setting
1 Credit Hour: The fast-paced nature of healthcare settings requires clinicians to have brief and effective methods of intervening with client problems. Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides clinicians with a framework and tools for successful outcomes. This training will present an overview of the CBT model, along with discussing the brief form of this model. Specific interventions for healthcare settings will be explored, including the “10 Minute CBT” framework and helpful clinical tools.

ODL 215: An Introduction to the Enneagram and Applications in Daily Practices
5 Credit Hours: The Enneagram is a personality system that helps us understand ourselves and one another, like the Myers-Briggs. This personality system is unique because it not only helps us understand our persona but also invites us to grow emotionally and spiritually. The Enneagram includes nine personalities and each of these personalities has considerable strengths and weaknesses. Using self-awareness and other interactive exercises, didactic learning, and insights of applying the Enneagram in day-to-day clinical practice, this introductory course will provide an excellent overview of this tool.

ODL 217: A Closer Look at Home Bound Patients: Options for Care, Access to Care, and a Documentary Film
2 Credit Hours: Over 5 million Americans are completely or mostly homebound or have significant limitations that make it extremely difficult to leave their home. Access to appropriate care and services can be extremely difficult — many times compounding the complexities of their cases. The award-winning documentary film, The Invisible Patients, tells the story of Jessica Macleod, a nurse practitioner, and four homebound patients she cares for in Evansville, Indiana. Together they put a human face on some of the most urgent health care issues facing our nation.

ODL 219: Solution Focused Approaches in Healthcare Settings
1 Credit Hour: The fast-paced nature of healthcare settings challenges clinicians to utilize appropriate intervention models within a specific time frame in which patients may only receive services for a brief amount of time. Solution-focused therapy offers promising approaches to addressing patient needs in a strengths-based, focused interviewing style. Clinical tools such as EARS and ROPES will be presented, along with relevant case vignettes for critical thinking.

ODL 220: Ethics, Implicit Bias, Cultural Humility and Healthcare Disparities – A Day of Learning Using Video, Case Scenarios, and Ethical Frameworks
5 Credit Hours: Implicit bias is an “implicit stereotype, an unconscious attribution of particular qualities to a member of a certain social group.” As helping professionals, we have an ethical obligation to explore evidence-based research around the causes of the disparities in minority communities and work on actively closing these gaps in care. This course will address the definition of implicit bias, including appropriate strategies for practice.

ODL 222: Applying Watson’s Theory of Caring for Self-Care
2 Credit Hours: As those of us who work in the helping profession realize, vicarious trauma/burnout and compassion fatigue are very real and debilitating syndromes – that can leave us feeling drained, depressed and physically sick with a multitude of other issues. Therefore, it is critical that we take care of ourselves in order to care for our clients, patients and families. Thus, this presentation will not only introduce Watson’s theory and Caritas Processes, but will focus on how each learner can incorporate the theory into professional practice and personal habits for self-care.

ODL 224: American Nurse: An Overview for Helping Professionals and Clinicians
2 Credit Hours: Confronted with a U.S. population that is growing, aging and facing deteriorating health, the eye-opening documentary, The American Nurse, showcases 5 fearless nurses as they serve on the frontlines of healthcare -- navigating their patients through birth, death, prison, war and harsh poverty. From award-winning filmmaker Carolyn Jones, the film will leave you informed and inspired by the amazing nurses that serve our communities every day.

ODL 225: An Overview of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)
1 Credit Hour: Clinicians require a vast array of therapeutic tools, approaches, and skills to provide evidence-based treatment to the patients and clients. In this jam packed one hour training we take a deeper dive into Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). Griffin Smith, LCSW, will provide the history and origin of MBT, a better understanding of the core concepts of MBT, and how mentalizing can be useful in your professional practice and personal life.

ODL 226: Questionable Surrogacy: The Ethically Appropriate Selection, Roles and Responsibility of Health Care Surrogates
1 Credit Hour: Social workers, case managers, counselors and other professionals are very involved in identifying and acting in a supporting role to those who qualify to act as a Health Care Surrogate. This program will educate the participating helping professionals in identifying the decision making standards of Health Care Surrogacy; present and evaluate strategies for resolving disputes between surrogates and health care team members; ethical principles involved and explore in general the role of the helping professional in the overall process.

ODL 227: Redefining Aging: Transforming our Understanding of “Old Age” and Well-Being
2 Credit Hours: It is no secret that the United States population is growing older. The aging population will double in the coming decades, affecting the social and health systems that our clients and families depend upon. Helping professionals will need to adopt a new mindset of well-being in relation to the aging process. Participants will learn innovative, evidence-based practices to create belonging and empowerment and help broaden the lens through which they view the aging process.

ODL 228: The State of Caregiving in America: Unpredictable Times and Charting a New Way Forward
2 Credit Hours: Caregivers are revered for the love, attention, and support they provide to the individuals in their care. Caregiving is a stressful, relentless, unpredictable, and often unpaid role. In this powerful presentation, Author Kate Washington, will offer an honest assessment of the caregiving experience in America.

ODL 230: Ethical Considerations when Working with Older Clients
2 Credit Hours: Helping professionals (social workers, counselors, nurses, and case managers) that practice in spaces with older adults can experience scenarios that create ethical dilemmas. For example, identifying the ‘right’ path of intervention when working with a client that is neglectful of their own needs, while considering that same client’s right to self-determination.

ODL 231: Meeting the Needs of Medically Complex Patients – An Overview and Case Scenario Review From Discharge Planning to Psychosocial and Spirituality and Lots in Between!
2 Credit Hours: Medically complex patients require a team-based and patient-centered approach to care. Critical care patients may fall under the following categories of complex medical care: pulmonary/ventilator weaning, neurological/post-trauma, cardiac/heart failure, infectious disease, wound care, and others. Participants will gain valuable insight, approaches to care, and resources critical to ensuring the best recovery for our medically complex patients.

ODL 232: Bringing Joy and Purpose to the Frontlines of Caregiving
1 Credit Hour: This thought-provoking course will cover all topics of being a care partner to someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Lisa Marshall, author of the NEW book Oh Hello Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s Journey of Love, will share her experiences through an interview-style format. Lisa shares her story, including diagnosis, early denial, progression of the disease, how Lisa and her husband coped, and most of all how they continued to bring joy and purpose to their lives.

ODL 233: An Introductory Overview of the Enneagram and Applications in Daily Practices
1 Credit Hour: The Enneagram is a personality system that helps us understand ourselves and one another, like the Myers-Briggs. The Enneagram includes nine personalities and each of these personalities has considerable strengths and weaknesses. Each personality also has one particular Achilles heel, and once we become aware of this, we are more able to move toward transformation and life. We will be reviewing these nine Enneagram types.

ODL 234: A Deeper Dive into Dialectical Behavior Therapy
6 Credit Hours: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, or DBT, is not just useful with people who have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). "DBT-informed Treatment" is shown to be quite effective with individuals who do not have BPD. This workshop will introduce learners to the validity of DBT interventions for individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, impulse control, and relationships.

ODL 235: Resilience and Ethics: Supporting Our Helping Professionals
1 Credit Hour: Since the pandemic, helping professionals have experienced record levels of burnout, stress and compassion fatigue. While many trainings focus on self-care, this training focuses on exploring the concept of resilience. Participants will walk through creating their own plan to build resilience and will finish with free tools to use both professionally and personally.

ODL 236: Motivational Interviewing and Ethical Practices
5 Credit Hours: Motivational Interviewing is an effective ethical technique for professionals in many practice settings to engage in meaningful conversations with clients to help facilitate attitude and behavior change. This workshop examines a brief definition and history, theoretical framework, style and spirit, process, and techniques of motivational interviewing. The workshop also explores how biases and diversity influence behavior and services, and provides tools for reflection, self-monitoring and regulation to manage personal values and maintain professional standards of practice.

ODL 237: Ethics of Self-Determination in Healthcare Settings
1 Credit Hour: Healthcare settings present service providers with diverse patient situations and circumstances which sometimes involve ethical dilemmas. Specific ethical dilemmas in medical settings will be introduced for learners to critically analyze through case studies, including decisional capacity, competence, cultural factors, and autonomy.

ODL 239: Undermining the Cultural Power: Understanding Systemic Racism and Code Switching
5 Credit Hours: Helping professionals are on the frontlines of many disparities that people face on a daily basis, and systemic racism is one of them. While we as the helping professionals are trying to decrease the number of barriers our clients or patients face, we are up against an enormous barrier for our clients or patients who identify as BIPOC. This full day event will provide a discussion of how we as a society arrived at this place of oppression and what we can do to help.

ODL 240: Suicide Assessment and Intervention
5 Credit Hours: One of a clinician's biggest responsibilities is assessing and intervening with suicidal clients. In this training, comprehensive suicide assessment tools and approaches will be discussed. Learn about best practices for completing a thorough suicide assessment. Discover evidenced-based intervention methods to address suicidality and reduce risk. Classify legal and ethical requirements for effective practice. Leave this workshop with newfound confidence and skills to support suicidal clients.

ODL 242: Recognize, Respond and Empower: Promoting Growth and Resilience through a Trauma Informed Lens
5 Credit Hours: Trauma Informed Care has been all the buzz with organizations being trauma informed and practitioners utilizing a trauma informed approach, but have you wondered what this actually looks like? Do you want to know how you can be trauma informed or how to assess your own trauma informed approach? If you answered “yes”, then this event is for you! In the morning, participants will hear the story of a survivor and the factors that led to her success. Throughout the rest of the day participants will learn how to implement a framework in which they recognize, respond, and empower the populations they work with.