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a State Branch of the American Counseling Association
PCA Professional Development Chairperson: Dr. Michelle Bruno Indiana University of Pennsylvania 400 Penn Center Boulevard, Ninth Floor, Building #4 Pittsburgh PA 15235 Monroeville Campus: 412-824-1999 Indiana Campus: 724-357-3405
The purpose of professional development is to serve PCA members and all professional counselors and marriage and family therapists by offering continuing education and the opportunity to earn contact hours towards recertification and license renewal through the PCA state conference and its divisions and chapters. Upcoming Continuing Education Workshops and Trainings On Saturday, May 1, 2010 the Delaware Counseling Association and the Delaware Mental Health Counselors Association will jointly present a conference and workshop based on the theme "Resilience Across the Lifespan." Our luncheon speaker will be Rita Landgraf, Delaware's Secretary of Delaware Health and Social Services, and the afternoon workshop will focus on helping counselors to become more resilient. The conference will be held at the New Castle, DE campus of Wilmington University. For more information, please go to www.decounseling.org and click on the link for "2010 Conference." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health Education Network announces the following trainings rescheduled due to inclement weather in February. Sensory Integration in Children Susan Larson Kidd, Ed.D., Ed.S The goal of this program is to provide the relevancy of understanding sensory systems, regulation and dysfunction and the impact this haas for children in potential learning, social interaction, and behavior. Furthermore, the goal of this program is to help participants acquire strategies and resources in order to create and implement a sensory integration diet or plan for children and youth within home, work, school, or a facility. Training Dates and Locations May 19, 2010 (Bethlehem, PA) May 20, 2010 (Harrisburg, PA) May 21, 2010 (Fort Washington, PA) Contact Information: Lori Manning; 715-552-9523 lmanning@health-ed.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to Work Effectively with Suicidal Clients David Jobes, Ph. D., ABPP The purpose of this intensive suicide-specific program is to examine the critical issues of understanding the suicidal mind, clinical assessment of suicidal states (including instrumentation-based assessment), treatment interventions, suicide among various population groups, and ethical/professional dilemmas with implications for malpractice liability and sound practice. Training Date and Location: May 21, 2010 (King of Prussia, PA) Contact Information: Lori Manning; 715-552-9523 lmanning@health-ed.com
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Professional development (PD) is most active from September through May. The chair of professional development is responsible for gathering requests for approval of each workshop and the state conference for continuing education, issuing approval for each workshop/state conference, processing contact hours in person at the state conference or by mail for division/chapter workshops, and maintaining the records for current and prior years of PCA professional development. Please follow this link to view the process of continuing education. To find out how to obtain contact hours from the Pennsylvania Counseling Association toward state licensure and/or board certification renewal, or, if you are a presenter, how to offer them through the PCA, click on the following link:
PCA Professional Development Forms: PCA Annual Conference: The annual PCA meeting provides an excellent opportunity to earn contact hours for state licensure and/or board certification renewal!
For Presenters at the PCA annual Conference or at other workshops If you would like to count an educational session or workshop that you have given toward your own CEU requirement, the licensure board requires that an application be submitted, along with the payment of a fee, in advance of the presentation. The application and process can be found here.
ResourcesPCA parent association American Counseling Association (ACA) makes available to professional counselors and practitioners of other mental health professions a wide variety of professional development resources, resources such as books, videos, and home-studies. One resource, in particular, is professional counseling's flagship journal, the Journal of Counseling & Development. Most of them meet continuing education unit (CEU) requirements for professional counseling state licensure and board certification, and in many cases, for the psychology and social work professions, as well. To browse the ACA's extensive on-line resource catalogue, click on the ACA logo below:
Also, be sure to explore some of the resources found in the Mental Health Resources section of our Links page. For additional information, please contact the PCA Professional Development Committee by e-mail at ceu@pacounseling.org , by phone at (412) 854-9120, X15, or by FAX at (412) 854-9123 (outside the U.S.: country code is "+1").
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