Important Information
As an accredited and approved provider of CE/CME, NICABM requires learners who want CE/CME credit to:
- Verify that you have watched or listened to the complete program, including bonuses, Critical Insight Sessions, and Focus on Application Sessions.
- Complete the CE/CME program evaluation.
- Pass the CE/CME quiz with a minimum score of 80%.
A link to the verification, post-program evaluation, and CE/CME quiz will be provided to you at the end of the course.
Accreditation / Approval
NICABM, as the accredited and approved sponsor, maintains responsibility for the program and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.
Psychologists
- National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NICABM maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 17 CE credits or clock hours are available with this course.
- National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0217. 17 CE credits or clock hours are available with this course.
Physicians
- NICABM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Workers
- The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/25). This is approved for 17 contact hours.
Nurses
- Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP 17241 (Exp. 3/31/2025), for 17 Contact Hours.
- NICABM is accredited by the ACCME. Therefore, nurses certified through ANCC are able to use NICABM’s programs to fulfill 50% of their CS requirements.
- This activity meets the criteria for a formally approved American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) activity. NICABM is also an approved provider by the American Psychological Association, which is recognized by the ANCC for behavioral health related activities.
Counselors
- The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5381. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NICABM is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This program is approved for 17 clock hours.
- Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/25). This is approved for 17 contact hours.
Marriage and Family Therapists
- Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Approved Provider #50-2010 (Exp. 3/31/25). This is approved for 17 contact hours.
Target Audience
This program has been designed for medical and mental healthcare professionals. This course is appropriate for advanced-level practitioners.
Learning Objectives
As a result of participating in this activity, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate collapse/submit, attach/cry-for-help, and please/appease responses in clinical practice.
- Explain how to establish therapeutically-appropriate boundaries in relationships with clients experiencing attach/cry-for-help responses.
- Discuss treating clients who have any of the three defense responses (collapse/submit, attach/cry-for-help, and please/appease) using cognitive, somatic, or polyvagal-informed approaches.
- Explain how trauma’s impact on the brain and body can lead to dissociation.
- List five distinct forms of dissociation as they present in clinical practice.
- Discuss how to tailor treatment to individual clients with dissociation by considering cognitive, experiential, and somatic approaches.
- Describe the impact of trauma on the social engagement system.
- Discuss using an Internal Family Systems approach to helping traumatized clients improve interpersonal relationships.
- Employ effective strategies to help clients process traumatic memories that can fuel conflict in interpersonal relationships.
- List four defenses both clients and therapists use to manage shame.
- Discuss the 9-part Internal Family Systems approach to reduce shame when working with clients who have been traumatized.
- Describe three strategies to help clients who go into a freeze response in a session.
- Describe a four-step process to help a client regulate their nervous system to reduce the likelihood of going into a freeze response.
Release and Termination Dates
Original release date: October 1, 2020
Reviewed: March 1, 2023
Termination date: March 1, 2026
Disclosures
In accordance with standards established by the organizations that accredit and approve the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) as a provider of CE/CME courses, we require that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible company. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) defines an “ineligible company” as any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
NICABM mitigates all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in its CE/CME programming.
The following individuals have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose:
- Ruth Buczynski, PhD
- Bethany Brand, PhD
- Thema Bryant, PhD
- Deb Dana, LCSW
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
- Peter Levine, PhD
- William Nash, MD
- Pat Ogden, PhD
- Stephen Porges, PhD
- Terry Real, MSW, LICSW
- Megan Schmidt, PsyD
- Richard Schwartz, PhD
- Ron Siegel, PsyD
- Kathy Steele, MN, CS
- Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW
- Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD
- Bessel van der Kolk, MD
- Eboni Webb, PsyD
- Kelly Wilson, PhD
The planners and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.