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Course Description  

This course equips learners with a comprehensive understanding of domestic violence and intimate partner violence, distinguishing these abusive dynamics from general relationship conflict using established professional frameworks. Learners will analyze common patterns of abuse, including coercive control, psychological abuse, technology-facilitated abuse, and reproductive coercion, while learning safe, trauma-informed screening and assessment protocols to evaluate risk escalation and lethality. The curriculum prepares participants to apply empowerment-based clinical responses, including client validation, structured safety planning, and collaborative referral coordination. Additionally, participants will examine how cultural, social, and systemic factors influence survivor experiences and create barriers to safety, all while navigating key ethical and legal responsibilities, such as confidentiality, accurate documentation, mandated reporting, and upholding client autonomy, in alignment with ACA, NBCC, and NASW ethical standards.

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This course provides a comprehensive exploration of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), covering its core philosophical principles, theoretical framework, and the central role that thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations play in driving emotional and behavioral disturbances. Participants will learn to distinguish between rational and irrational beliefs and master the application of the signature ABCDE model in clinical practice. The curriculum emphasizes key REBT concepts—specifically Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA), Unconditional Other-Acceptance (UOA), and Unconditional Life-Acceptance (ULA)—to enrich case conceptualization and client growth. Through practical training in cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques, learners will acquire the skills needed to dispute rigid, irrational beliefs and help clients restructure them into adaptive, healthy alternatives that promote lasting psychological change.

Course Description  

This course offers participants a comprehensive grounding in Gestalt Therapy, tracing its historical development and core theoretical principles to demonstrate their relevance in contemporary clinical practice. Learners will examine the progression of clinical skill across beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, learning to tailor interventions based on clinician competence, ethical considerations, and client readiness. The curriculum covers foundational techniques designed to establish safety, present-moment awareness, and therapeutic contact with children, adolescents, and emerging adults, before progressing to intermediate interventions like experiments and internal dialogue techniques. As the course advances, participants will explore higher-level Gestalt practices that address shame, relational processes, cultural context, and existential responsibility, all while navigating essential ethical and legal standards surrounding informed consent, documentation, mandated reporting, and culturally responsive care.