Friday, February 8, 2008

Free Therapy Training Online

I've found a couple of interesting sites that offer free trainings for those working the mental health field:

Hypnosis Motivation Institute
This Southern California organization offers a certification program in hypnosis free through their website. I've completed it myself and it entails 6 2-hour videos with a short quiz after each one. Once you've completed the quizzes you make a half-hour phone appointment with a trainer who asks you some final questions and asks you for a demonstration of hypnotic induction. When you pass they send you a certificate saying you are a "certified hypnotist." You must complete the whole process in 30 days which is not that hard to do. They hope that by completing the training you will get interested and pay for more advanced trainings whereby you can become a "certified hypnotherapist" or even further. I found the training videos pretty interesting for the most part. I don't feel comfortable doing hypnosis with my therapy clients but it was interesting to learn a new modality and get a sense of what it would be like to work that way.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
This is a web-based learning course for evidence-based TF-CBT with children and adolescents. They give video examples, readings, and quizzes detailing the different stages of the therapy. It would helpful for certain job applications to say you have some experience in TF-CBT as many agencies are looking for evidence-based practices these days.

2 comments:

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