Wounds Within Home CE Hours Course and Book, Mark Nickerson (12 CE Credit Hours)

This reading-based asynchronous distance learning Home Study Program offers an opportunity to earn 12 CE credit hours (EMDRIA, Psychologists, ASWB ACE, NBCC). The book itself (not included) is the educational content of this program. This reading-based asynchronous distance learning program provides a self-paced opportunity to learn and earn CE credit hours. This CE program is designed for licensed mental health clinicians who are also trained in EMDR.  Content level is intermediate to advanced 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: The Wounds Within, by Mark Nickerson (Included in this purchase)

Program Description
The Wounds Within (published January 6, 2015) home study course will deepen your grasp of the key challenges for active duty and veteran military personnel and their families to be􀆩er prepare you as a mental health professional. The Wounds Within engages the reader in a detailed and compelling drama of a Marine who deployed early in the Iraq war, battled PTSD after returning home and ultimately took his own life. The story describes the family’s struggle and depicts their powerful advocacy a􀅌er their son’s death, which led to systemic reforms including improved services. The book is written from the perspective of Mark Nickerson, LICSW, who worked closely with the Marine and his family. The story expands beyond the central narrative and offers “big picture” information and perspective including many significant features of the post‐9/11 wars.

The Wounds Within portrays the transition from war zone to home zone and the array of difficult and clinically relevant issues for combat veterans and their families as they recover and reintegrate into post combat life (SEE BELOW). Practical information is made vivid with multiple examples. EMDR therapy and the AIP theory are presented in understandable  terms with a transcript example of effective treatment and recovery from PTSD. The book urges civilian‐based clinicians to step up and be prepared to effectively serve our veterans in the coming years.

Clinically Related Content Includes:

• war zone to home zone
• adjustment challenges for families and loved ones
• understanding and reducing stigma
• continuum of combat stress responses
• the many faces of military PTSD
• addressing suicide risk
• survivor guilt and moral injury
• treating PTSD, depression, substance abuse
• overcoming “You just can’t understand me.”
• how psychological trauma is a physiological wound
• the adaptive information processing model
• evidence‐based treatment options
• detailed clinical example of EMDR therapy
• resources,  resilience and posttraumatic growth

click here to preview the book’s table of contents.

About the Authors:

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.  Nickerson is author of The Wounds Within (2015: Skyhorse), an exposé on the challenges for war veterans and their families. He is also editor and a chapter author of Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR: Innovative Strategies and Protocols (Springer, 2023 2nd  edition, was published in 2023 (first edition, 2017)

Joshua S. Goldstein, PhD., is professor emeritus of international relations at American University. He graduated with a BA from Stanford University and earned his doctorate at MIT. Goldstein has published numerous books and articles in the general field of international relations and political science. These include Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age. Yale University Press. 1988,  The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror. New York University Press. 2005, and War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. Cambridge University Press. 2009.

Instructions after purchase of book study program:
  1. After completing the purchase of this CE program, you will receive an email payment  receipt verifying your purchase with a link to a quiz based upon the book’s content. 
  2. Participants purchase or acquire this book separately
  3. You will be provided with a downloadable PDF version of the CE quiz to use while you read.
  4. To earn your CE credit hours,  complete the CE Course completion requirements below. 
  5. Participants have up to a year after purchase to complete the CE program.
  6.  When you complete and pass the quiz, you will be issued a downloadable certificate documenting 12 CE credit hours earned:  EMDRIA, psychologists, ASWB ACE, and NBCC.

CE Course completion requirements:
– Read The Wounds Within, Mark NIckerson – book included
– Complete course evaluation
– Pass content-related quiz (score 75% or above – 3 chances to take the quiz)

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for program purchase cancellation/refund must be in writing to info@emdradvancedtrainings.com no later than 2 weeks after registering for the program. Refunds will be 75% of purchase price. No refund will be given for requests made past this timeframe or for those programs for which the attendee has already obtained CE hours.

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EMDR International Association: EMDR Advanced Training & Distance Learning, LLC is an EMDRIA Approved Credit Provider (#07002) and maintains responsibility for this program (#07002-DL28) and its content in accordance with EMDRIA standards.

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Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): EMDR Advanced Training & Distance Learning, LLC (EMDR ATDL) [provider #2036] is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education credits by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program  Regulatory Boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/10/25 – 1/10/26. Social workers completing this course receive 12 clinical education credits. EMDR ATDL maintains responsibility for this program.