Cultural Competence Home CE Hours Course and Book, Mark Nickerson (12 CE hours)

PLEASE NOTE: Second Edition Quiz Now Available

This reading-based asynchronous distance learning Home Study Program offers an opportunity to earn 12 CE hours (EMDRIA, Psychologists, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC and other master’s level clinicians. Check with your state licensing board to confirm acceptance of NBCC credits). The book itself (included) is the educational content of this program. This reading-based asynchronous distance learning provides a self-paced opportunity to learn and earn CE credits. This CE program is designed for licensed mental health clinicians who are also trained in EMDR.  Content level is beginning to intermediate for EMDR trained clinicians. By passing the CE program quiz developed for this program, you will demonstrate that you have gained knowledge by reading this book.

The reading based asynchronous distance learning program is based upon the information in:
Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy (2nd edition) by Mark Nickerson. 
Book IS part of this purchase.

Recently released in its second edition, this groundbreaking text continues to offer guiding direction on the frontiers of culturally informed EMDR therapy and the treatment of culturally based trauma and adversity.

Over twenty-five authors combine to address a diverse range of current and emerging topics. Ten new second edition chapters include a call for broader recognition of culturally based trauma and adversity within the trauma field, the core human need for connection and belonging, and strategies for clinician self-reflection in developing a culturally competent clinical practice that is multicultural inclusive, actively anti-oppressive, and grounded in cultural humility. Other new chapters offer considerations in working with Black, American Indian, Asian-American, and Latinx clients; immigration challenges; and social class identity.

Overall, this book provides graspable conceptual frameworks, useful language and terminology, in-depth knowledge about specific cultural populations, clinical examples, practical intervention protocols and strategies, research citations, and additional references. This text speaks not only to EMDR practitioners but has been recognized as a groundbreaking work for therapists in clinical practice. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Second Edition:
– Ten new chapters addressing timely topics
– Ten themes of Culturally Based Trauma and Adversity (CBTA)
– Considerations for working with Black, American Indian, Asian-American, Latinx clients, and other racial/ethnic populations
– Exploration of social class related experiences and identities
– Challenges related to immigration and acculturation

Click here for book table of contents, chapter authors and other information

Editor/Author
Mark Nickerson, LICSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical consultant, and trainer with a specialty in trauma treatment. He has more than 40 years of clinical experience and is based in Amherst, MA, US. Nickerson is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan School of Social Work. He is a former president of the EMDR International Association, where he has served on the Board for eight years. He is a senior EMDR therapy trainer for the EMDR Institute. Nickerson conducts EMDR and other trainings nationally and internationally. Training topics include educational trainings and experiential workshops designed to explore cultural identity, address the effects of socially based trauma and adversity, dismantle prejudice and inspire socially responsive action. Trained as a social worker, Nickerson has a long-standing commitment to understanding personal issues within the context of family, cultural, and societal systems. Nickerson is author of The Wounds Within (2015: Skyhorse), an exposé on the challenges for war veterans and their families. The second edition of Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma With EMDR was published in 2023 (first edition, 2017).

Learning objectives: 
With regard to each chapter selected for CE Credit study, participants will be able to:

1. Describe 3 or more examples of client difficulties addressed in this chapter
2. Describe 3 or more recommendations provided in this chapter
3. Describe 3 or more clinical strategies described in this chapter

Key Features:

• Twenty-seven chapters and multiple contributing experts with diverse professional and lived experiences
• Best-practice methods in cultural competence integrated into EMDR therapy
• Implementing intercultural and anti-oppressive approaches
• Culturally attuned clinical assessment and case formulation
• Innovative protocols and strategies for treating socially based trauma and adversity
• AIP formulations expanded with research-based social information processing
• Sections include LGBTQIA+ issues, transgenerational cultural trauma, and refugee/immigration challenges
• Strategies for dismantling social prejudice and discrimination
• Chapters combine conceptual theory with practical application examples and methods

Instructions after purchase of book study program:
– After completing the purchase of this CE program, you will receive an email receipt verifying your purchase with a link to a quiz based upon the book’s content.
-For your convenience, you will be provided a downloadable PDF version of the quiz to use while you read.
-To earn your CE hours, you must answer the online course evaluation and quiz questions.
-Participants have up to one year after purchase to complete the CE program.
–When you complete the evaluation and pass the CE quiz, you will be issued a downloadable certificate with CE hours indicated. 

CE Course completion requirements:
– Read Cultural Competence Home CE Hours Course and Book, Mark Nickerson – book included
– Complete course evaluation
– Pass content-related quiz (score 75% or above) (3 chances to take the quiz)

Purchase Includes:
1. Home CE Credit Program – Downloadable PDF
2. Home CE Credit Program – 8 Selected Chapters
3. 12 CE hours (EMDRIA, Psychologists, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC and other master’s level clinicians. Check with state licensing board to confirm acceptance of NBCC credits)    

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