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Women's Health: Depression

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Home Study

This course begins by examining the signs, symptoms, duration, and treatment methods associated with depressions that most affect women, such as Major Depression, Dysthymia, Bipolar Depression, and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). Participants will gain an understanding of how genetics, hormones, interpersonal relationships (family history and/or physical and psychological abuse), physical abilities, and biochemistry influence the existence and/or persistence of depression.

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Women's Health: Chronic Pain

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Home Study

This course covers the most recent findings on a number of the most common conditions that underlie chronic pain in women, including: back pain, breast pain, Firbromyalgia, lupus, arthritis, scleroderma, trigeminal neuralgia, pelvic pain, central pain syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, and others.

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Understanding Anger

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Home Study

This independent study health update reviews the sources of anger, types of anger, neurophysiology of anger and other important dimensions of anger including the anger cycle, the anger habit, and factors that influence the expression of anger.

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Stop Losing Sleep

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Home Study

This course explores the issues of diagnosis, differential diagnosis and management of sleep and related disorders, namely restless leg syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder and other conditions that may contribute to or intensify sleep disorders.

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Smoke Free Baby & Me

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Online, Self Paced

The goal of this course is to provide individuals caring for pregnant women with counseling strategies and interventions for smoking cessation. The course is especially important for agencies and health care providers who care for Michigan's pregnant population.

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Safe Sleep Independent Study

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Online Training, Self Paced

The goal of this online course is to provide individuals caring for pregnant women and infants the counseling strategies and interventions to promote a consistent safe sleep environment. The course is especially important for agencies and health care providers who care for Michigan's Medicaid population.

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Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Online, Self Paced

This pediatric traumatic brain injury training is split into four modules: module one presents an overview of pediatric traumatic brain injury, addresses the incidence and prevalence of pediatric TBI, the nature of injury and some key predictors of outcome; module two discusses specific cognitive effects of pediatric traumatic brain injury, some of the effects on academic skills, school progress, and children's needs; Module three covers the psychological and psychiatric consequences and needs and module four focuses on how a brain injury can affect other family member and discusses social consequences, and peer relations of the brain injured person.

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On Loss & Grief

Date Available: NOW

Course Type: Home Study

This home study course is designed to provide an in-depth examination of the complex experience of loss and grief in order to assist the clinician with understanding both the process, and the reactions that may be involved.

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Loss of Control: Fighting Back with Full Strength

Date Available:
NOW

Course Type:
Home Study

This home-study course throughly examines how stress induced feelings can lead to loss of control that may precipitate catastrophic events and trigger psychological (e.g., depression, irritability, overal negative feeling toward life, etc. ) and neurologic (e.g., exacerbation of chronic pain, never-ending exhaustion and fatigue, frequent headaches, persisting colds and flues, etc.) effects.

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