Continuing
education is necessary to maintain professional licensure
and certification in many states. Continuing education is
also beneficial to help practitioners update their clinical
skills and knowledge about various ethical and professional
standards associated with suicide prevention.
Helping
professions are constantly changing, growing, and developing
new techniques, strategies, and theories based on an ever-evolving
body of research and knowledge.
A
list of Internet resources are described that offer current,
comprehensive, and varied continuing education opportunities.
If you are still unable to find the information that you need,
please contact the Online guide.
Electronic
and multimedia resources are provided to help you to find
Continuing education opportunities on the topic of suicide
and suicide prevention. These opportunities are available
from professional organizations, not-for-profit organizations,
and educational institutions.
Internet
American
Psychological Association (APA)
The
APA is a professional organization and the largest organization
of psychologists in the world. The APA is an international
organization whose mission is to advance psychology as a science
and profession and as a means of promoting health and human
welfare through research, high standards of ethics, conduct,
education and achievement, the proliferation of knowledge
and education, sharing of professional findings and experiences,
and publications.
The
APA lists continuing education opportunities for psychologists
and other mental health professionals online at the following
Web address:
BehaviorEDU
is a private sector Web site developed to become a source
of online continuing education. Behavioral EDU is the subsidiary
of Professional EDU and offers courses for mental health professionals
online for continuing education credits.
The
BehaviorEDU Web site is available at the following Web address:
