By Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP Improving Communication with Your Young Clients is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that teaches clinicians effective and practical communication and conversational skills to use with young clients and their families. Healthy professional and personal relationships rely heavily on effective communication techniques and respectful conversational skills.
From Science Daily A unique connection between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease has been uncovered by researchers, providing further evidence that a disease that robs people of their memories may be affected by elevated blood sugar. While many earlier studies have pointed to diabetes as a possible contributor to Alzheimer's, the new study - in mice ...
People with HIV should be put on antiretroviral drugs as soon as they learn they are infected, federal health officials said Wednesday as they announced that they were halting the largest ever clinical trial of early HIV treatment because its benefits were already so clear.
Through the process of researching this issue, I became fascinated with recent research on neurodiversity as it applies to autism. To oversimplify vastly, neurodiversity is the idea that neurological differences (including autism) are the result of normal variation. In other words, we may be creating pathology where there is none.
More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) outside established pediatric guidelines, according to data presented on Friday by an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Ohio social workers have a license renewal every two years with a date of issue deadline. Thirty hours of continuing education are required for license renewal, and there are no limits for online courses if ASWB approved. Three hours of ethics are required at each renewal. This organization (Professional Development Resources , Inc.
The Florida Department of Health now requires all Florida healthcare professionals to provide proof of CE compliance at the time of renewal.
Vague Standards, Guidelines, Laws Create Telepsychology Risks As a psychologist who's been researching/writing/practicing/consulting/training online for years, I'm often asked, "Where can psychologists get guidance and training for practicing online?" Just as frequently, I encounter well-intentioned, ethical colleagues who blithely undertake an online practice without considering their legal and ethical obligations or competencies.
Medical marijuana may provide some benefit for patients with chronic nerve pain or cancer pain, as well as people who have multiple sclerosis and experience muscle spasms, according to a new review study. However, there is not much evidence supporting the use of medical marijuana for other reasons, such as sleep disorders, Tourette syndrome and anxiety disorders.
Federal health officials are proposing that Medicare begin paying doctors to discuss end-of-life issues with their patients, six years after the "death panel" controversy erupted in the early days of the debate over President Obama's health-care legislation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the new plan Wednesday as part of its annual Medicare physician payment rule.