Continuing Education

Mastering Your Craft: The Role of Continuing Education in Professional Development

Access a wide range of online courses designed to help mental health professionals earn continuing education credits. Stay informed while enhancing your knowledge and skills with tailored courses for mental health professionals.

Self-Stigma of Help-Seeking After Adverse Childhood Experiences Complementary CE

Learn how event centrality and posttraumatic beliefs mediate the association between adverse childhood experiences and self-stigma on help-seeking and identify trauma-informed, evidence-based counseling interventions and prevention strategies that may reduce self-stigma and promote help-seeking in this population.

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$0

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$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Supporting Sexual and Gender Minority Clients in Rural Areas Featured CE

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) clients in rural areas experience increased exposure to stigma and discrimination, more salient visibility and lower levels of community connectedness from an earlier age than non-rural SGM populations. Examine various considerations for your clinical practice with SGM clients residing in and/or from rural America.

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$15

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$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Suicide Risk Management and the Minimum Standard of Care Featured CE

Working with suicidal clients remains one of the clinical areas where many clinicians express a lack of self-efficacy. Learn to use several clinical practice guidelines to establish some of the critical competencies that counselors must possess to be able to meet the minimum standard of care with a suicidal client.

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$15

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$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Ways to Receive Continuing Education Credit

Professional Development Center

Earn continuing education credit by taking advantage of ACA's online professional development programming. Here you can access innovative educational content created for the counseling profession. Learn in a variety of formats such as video-based courses, education sessions, and webinars; as well as text-based book chapters and journal articles.

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When you attend our flagship educational and professional development event, you'll have the opportunity to receive Continuing Education (CE) credit hours. Also as an attendee, you'll explore new strategies for self-care, advocate for the counseling care of tomorrow, and access the latest tools and resources to support your clients. Attend our conference and enjoy networking.

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Continuing Education Courses

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Introduction to �ֲ��ýCode of Ethics New

This three-part interactive course is an in-depth exploration of the �ֲ��ýCode of Ethics — structured to equip you with the necessary frameworks and concepts, along with reflective and practical exercises, to address issues in counseling practice effectively.

Certificate in Foundations of Child and Adolescent Counseling New

Presented by �ֲ��ýand the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC), this eight-session series will equip mental health professionals with foundational knowledge and applied skills for effective, ethical, and culturally responsive counseling with children and adolescents.