Welcome to CEU By Net's online Distinct Populations (Cultural Competence) courses! These courses are treatment-focused TOOLKITS!
And for Texas, earn your Human Trafficking Certificate and your Distinct Populations credits at the SAME TIME! Plus 4 credits for General. We upload to CE Broker within 60 seconds of course completion.
FOR ALL OTHER STATES, these Distinct Populations courses apply to multiple areas, including ethics, cultural competence, trauma, telemental health, SUD, and assessment. Approved by NBCC, NAADAC, and IC&RC, and most states.
Our NEW Telehealth Course is also a DISTINCT POPULATIONS course — it includes HIPAA's NEW Rules for Telehealth for your SUD, OUD, and Mental Health clients who require technology assisted services. And it meets the Texas LMFT requirement for Telehealth credits.
Earn FREE cultural competence & counseling CEUs with our Unlimited CEUs Annual Subscription, only $49 per year.
Read Course Descriptions here.
For a complete list of our Cultural Competence Courses and to enroll in a course, go to the Cultural Competence Catalog.
FOR TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH: Go here to see the eight cultural awareness courses that are specifically registered with CE Broker for Texas Mental Health as Distinct Populations.
One of these courses (4TASDP) can also be taken by Texas LMFTs as Technology Assisted Services.
What is Distinct Populations? It's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training that moves beyond the traditional cultural competence and political focus.
These courses expand the meaning of Cultural Competence and DEI with an important client-centered 'reframe' that focuses on the client's internal, personal culture — rather than on the social, political, and legal aspects of inclusivity, equity, and diversity.
CEU By Net's cultural sensitivity courses take you beyond the traditional approach which focuses on racial and ethnic rights and diversity, to the treatment issues encountered with distinct population groups.
The Telehealth course includes research-based training in televideo adaptation to the special cultural needs and reactions of people living with SUD, Opioid Use Disorder, PTSD and associated conditions who require remote technology assistance, including RURAL locations. Telemental Health with Veterans with PTSD are specifically addressed.
Courses are appropriate for Counselors, Social Workers, LMFTs, and Addiction Professionals.
NOTE FOR TEXAS:
Eight of these courses — below — are registered with CE Broker for Texas as Distinct Population Courses, and can also be taken for General credit. Note: Our NEW revised Telehealth Course 4TASDP can also be taken by LMFTs for Technology Assisted Services credit.
Consider Course 5K and Course 5L (veterans with PTSD and TBI)
Course 3H (adolescent SUD)
Course 7T (approved by HHSC for Human Trafficking and by BHEC for Trafficking, Distinct Populations and General)
Course 4TASDP (Telehealth and Technology)
Course 4V (Public Mass Shootings)
4SUD (Surviving the Opioid Overdose but Now What?)
3T (Trauma Informed Care)
What We Teach
In a clinical practice, each client's PERSONAL CULTURE is unique, and recognition of that uniqueness is the core of effective mental health and addiction counseling.
'Personal Culture' is formed from the totality of a client's life experience — and this personal experience must be the ultimate focus of crisis intervention and subsequent treatment.
Therapeutic success depends on your selection of client-centered tools and techniques that support and accommodate the client's personal, cultural, and life circumstances.
Specific Topics
Know research-validated approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention that mesh with your client's PERSONAL CULTURE, aside from traditional concepts of inclusivity, equity, and diversity.
Know how to halt a near-fatal overdose of Fentanyl and the essential follow-up after discharge from the ER, when the client is not ready for abstinence.
Know how to use CBT in dual diagnosis anger management groups where personal experiences of clients may vary significantly. Workbooks are published in English, Spanish, and Korean.
Understand the unique culture and trauma of sexually trafficked victims, how to assess and rescue them as emancipated minors, and how to work with law enforcement.
Learn how to operate and adapt politically challenging HIV Harm Reduction programs, using three different research-validated program designs published by SAMHSA.
And more.
Course credits are nationally developed and nationally approved.
Earn FREE cultural competence & counseling CEUs with our Unlimited CEUs Annual Subscription, only $49 per year.
THESE ARE RESEARCH VALIDATED COURSES
CEU By Net's sponsored continuing education courses are research-based and published by SAMHSA, US Department of Justice, Polaris, the Office for Victims of Crime, NIH, and their national partners. Take courses that demonstrate client-centered counseling and accommodate the client's personal culture.
Courses are nationally APPROVED for behavioral health professionals, earning CE credit for NBCC, NAADAC, IC&RC, and are an acceptable source of continuing education for most state boards.
Brief Guide to Some Popular Client-Centered Cultural Competence Courses
NEW Course 7T — Become aware of the unique cultural elements that significantly impact the effective assessment and rescue of sexually trafficked children, adolescents, and young adults. THIS IS A DISTINCT POPULATION COURSE IN TEXAS AND IS ALSO APPROVED FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING BY TEXAS HHSC.
Course 4TASDP - Ethics and Approach to Technology Assisted Services (Telemental Health) with Persons with PTSD and Associated Treatment Issues. THIS IS A DISTINCT POPULATION COURSE IN TEXAS, AND IS ALSO A TECHNOLOGY ASSISTED SERVICES course for TX LMFTs.
Courses 5K, 5L — Provide competent care of War Zone Veterans with an understanding of the unique Military culture and the situational stressors which result in PTSD, SUD, domestic violence, and suicidality of veterans. 5K and 5L ARE DISTINCT POPULATION COURSES IN TEXAS.
Course 4V addresses the widespread cultural impact of public mass shooting in K-12 schools and workplaces in America — including its political environment. Provides detail about how to train students, teachers, and co-workers to recognize impending threats, and approaches to prevention. 4V IS A DISTINCT POPULATIONS COURSE IN TEXAS
Course 8K and 1K — Understand how cultural diversity impacts Harm Reduction approaches to individuals with co-occurring HIV and addiction.
Courses 6J, 5J, 3J, 5P-A — Learn culturally competent skills for counseling with LGBTQ adolescents and their families, including prevention of suicide, ending conversion therapy, working toward affirmative transition, and rescue from the crime of human sex trafficking.
Courses 2M, 4S, 7R — Know the crucial role of cultural competence in the clinical supervision and management of clinical staff and behavioral health programs.
Courses 5K, 5L, 3TMH — Provide competent care of War Zone Veterans with an understanding of the unique Military culture and the situational stressors that result in PTSD, SUD, domestic violence, and suicidality of veterans. 5K AND 3TMH ARE DISTINCT POPULATION COURSES IN TEXAS.
Courses 3H, 5N - Recognize the impact of the adolescent drug use culture, including the social and cultural issues which inherently complicate treatment for adolescent SUDs. COURSE 3H IS A DISTINCT POPULATION COURSE IN TEXAS.
Course 6A — Know how cultural issues affect the victims of terrorism and mass violence, and how to provide culturally competent First Response and Aftercare.
Course 3F — Know the importance of personal culture when working with maternal depression in an inner-city poverty environment. Although there is ample description of how Maternal Depression evolves in various ethnic groups, it is also clear that living in poverty is a 'culture' in and of itself, regardless of the individual's ethnicity.
Course 2D — Learn about the impact of personal culture factors on decisions about End of Life Care. This course utilizes research-based knowledge of end-of-life preferences for specific terminal conditions including AIDS, terminal illness in children and the elderly, victims of fire, and other life-threatening conditions.
Multiple Courses - Understand the role and need for cultural awareness in immediate and ongoing Trauma-Informed Care with adults and youth. These courses teach that there are multiple cultural considerations when assisting communities, family members, survivors, and victims in the immediate and ongoing aftermath of tragedy and trauma.
See the entire list of Cultural Competence and DEI Courses HERE.
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