Therapy Tidbits - Summer 2021

Course overview

Therapy Tidbits Summer 2021 is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course comprised of select articles from the Summer 2021 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent, quarterly newspaper intended to keep psychologists informed abut practice issues. The articles included in this course are: Improving Health Through Community Policy Gains Momentum - Provides an overview of the Blue Zone Project and the impact on community members' health. Psychologists Will Be on Front Lines of Helping Recovering COVID Patients - Describes a variety of after-effects of COVID on patients' mental health and offers strategies for supporting them. Retailers Could Help Shape Future of Mental Health Treatment - Discusses the need for affordable access to mental health care and how local retailers, such as CVS, are filling that gap. FDA Approval of New Alzheimer's Drug is Fraught with Controversy - An overview of the FDA approval, and researchers' criticism, of the drug Aducanumab. My Patient May Be Placing Others at Risk of Contracting COVID-19: What Should I do? - The authors offer advice on discussing with patients the possible need for quarantining. Posting of Test Questions Online: Both Ill-Advised and Illegal - Highlights the need to prevent and contest the online publication of psychological and educational assessment questions. Prescribing Psychologists Share Stories of their Journey - Three pioneers among prescribing psychologists in Illinois share their stories. Are We Genetically Predisposed ot Conflict and Violence? (Viewpoint) - The author questions whether combining knowledge derived from genetic and neuroscience research will allow us to develop a more complete understanding of human emotions, cognitions, behavior, and personality. Experiential Learning Comes from Cultural Immersion and Autism - A psychologist, who is on the autistic spectrum, shares a personal account of living and practicing in rural Alaska. Course #11-43 | 2021 | 17 pages | 10 posttest questions