Next month we will be adding a new category to our list - Grief & Loss – which will feature courses written by a new addition to our team, Gabriel Constans. Gabriel has a Ph.D. in Death Education. Keep a look out for next month’s newsletter for more information.

Eating Disorders Update
Standard CEU Hours: 1   CEU Cost: $3.00
NBCC CEU Hours: NA        CEU Cost: NA

This short pamphlet discusses eating disorders as treatable diseases and covers topics such as: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Eating Disorder, FDA Warnings on Anti-Depressants, Effects on Male Populations and advances in treatment.

Meeting the Suicidal Person
Standard CEU Hours: 1   CEU Cost: $3.00
NBCC CEU Hours: NA        CEU Cost: NA

This paper discusses appropriate clinical attitudes and practices of clinicians when meeting with suicidal patients. Also discussed is the patient-oriented approach to suicide prevention.

Alcohol Screening & Brief Interventions for Public Health Practitioners
Standard CEU Hours: 2   CEU Cost: $6.00
NBCC CEU Hours: 2        CEU Cost: $6.00

Screening and Brief Intervention:
1. is designed for use by service providers who do not specialize in addiction treatment
2. uses motivational approaches based on how ready the person is to change behavior
3. gives feedback and suggestions respectfully in the form of useful information, without judgment or accusations
4. has been shown by research to be effective in reducing alcohol use and alcohol-related adverse consequences, including injury

Relapse Prevention in Older Adults
Standard CEU Hours: 16   CEU Cost: $48.00
NBCC CEU Hours: 16        CEU Cost: $48.00

This manual presents a relapse-prevention approach that uses the cognitive–behavioral and self-management intervention (CB/SM) in a counselor-led group treatment setting to help older adults overcome substance use disorders. It is for counselors and other treatment providers working with older adults who have substance use disorders. (For simplicity, “counselor” refers to any staff member who uses the manual for its intended purpose, and “CB/SM” refers to the specific forms and combination of cognitive–behavioral and self-management treatment approaches described in this manual for use with older adult clients.)

Your Frequently Asked Questions Answered

What is the difference between NBCC vs. Standard CEU Hours?
NBCC stands for the National Board of Certified Counselors. NBCC has a different set of standards on how their approved providers are to determine the number of hours awarded for courses taken by their licensees – thus the separation of course hours into 2 categories: Standard vs. NBCC.

While many state licensing boards approve our courses for license renewal based upon our pre-approved status with NBCC, this does not necessarily mean a participant will use NBCC hours. NBCC stated hours are for those individuals that hold a credential issued by NBCC, such as the NCC (National Certified Counselor), and will be submitting their certificates directly to NBCC for renewal. If a participant holds multiple licenses and credentials – of which one is issued by NBCC – then NBCC hours will take precedence.

The vast majority of our participants will take the ‘Standard’ CEU hours. If your board approves our courses due to our NBCC status you may take either ‘standard’ or ‘nbcc’ ceu hours. Only those participants with credentials issued by NBCC are mandated to take the NBCC hours.

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FAQ (Frequently Asked Question)

The most frequently asked question we receive is how to ‘enlarge’ the fonts of the course reading material in the SmartLook Viewer. When you click on the course material to read in Step 2, it will open in the SmartLook Viewer. Once opened click with your mouse directly on the face of the document. This will enlarge the document. Once in this mode, at the top of the document, you will see a ‘slider’ bar with a – and + sign at each end. The fonts can be enlarged tenfold using this slider bar. The SmartLook Viewer was actually installed to benefit our ‘visually impaired’customers.

New Courses Added and Updated
Trauma Patients Alcohol Screening
Standard CEUs/NBCC CEUs: 2
Cost: $6
A quick guide that discusses and illustrates with examples alcohol screening and brief interventions for patients entering trauma centers. Very well written.

Traumatic Brain Injury
Standard CEUs: 3  Cost: $9
NBCC CEUs: 2  Cost: $6
This course introduces the reader to the signs, symptoms, causes and types of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).  It also explores immediate post injury complications as well as long term problems associated with TBI.

Therapy Never Includes Sex
Standard/NBCC CEUs: 2
Cost: $6
This booklet was written for the consumer by the California Department of Consumer Affairs and is a joint project of the California Board of Psychology and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. It contains pertinent information for the licensed therapist, counselor, social worker and any other professional in a ‘healer’ position.

ADHD - Updated!
Standard CEUs: 4 Cost: $12
NBCC CEUs: 3 Cost: $9
The information for this course was compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services and gives a brief overview of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how it affects adults and children.

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It is our policy to add 2 – 3 new courses each month to our site. However, March and April reflect huge upgrades to our website and program. As a result, new courses were not added. We are planning for new courses to be added in May.

Upgrades to the website are based upon a gathering of feedback over time from our participants. We appreciate and take seriously your feedback on the exam forms.

Please familiarize yourself below with the changes that have been made and that are still in the progress through the end of April.

Website
The website has been widened and the fonts changed and enlarged throughout to enhance viewing for participants who are visually impaired.

SmartLook Viewer
All course material now opens within the SmartLook Viewer. This was made available to improve the accessibility of our courses to even more participants. Within the Viewer you can: enlarge the fonts, email the course material to yourself or a friend, search for keywords, print the entire document at once or print just the page you are viewing. See how the SmartLook Viewer works.

Certificates
If you have an email address on file, certificates will automatically be ’emailed’ to all participants immediately after taking and paying for an online exam. As well, certificates will automatically be emailed to all home study participants. Be sure to check your inbox or your ‘spam’ folder for your certificates.

Exams
All online exams will be converted from the current ‘drop down’ menu answer choice to a ‘click button’ answer choice. This will make entering your answers on the electronic exam go much faster! You will see this change take place gradually with all existing exams throughout the month of April until all ‘current’ exams have been transferred to the new format.


Support
Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Telephone Support hours are Monday – Thursday from Noon to 4:00 pm PST. In order to keep prices at a minimum for our participants we are unable to provide full time telephone support. Toll Free (877) 665-3311. Leave a message and your call will be returned within a few hours and no later than 24 hours.

Our online support ticket system functions 7 days a week. You will receive a prompt response. An email address is required to use the online support system.

You will now find the material in Step 1 (exam worksheet) and Step 2 (course material) will automatically open in the SmartLook Viewer once the green buttons have been pressed. Additionally, by right clicking with your mouse each button you will be given the option to download the material to your desktop as a pdf file.

The purpose of making this change is to accommodate as many participants as possible by expanding the accessibility of our courses beyond our old format of just PDF or HTML (web) viewing. Flip page technology is the newest technology available on the web for viewing and reading documents from within your browser while providing you with many other options.

Once your material is open within the SmartLook Viewer you will see there are many options available such as:

1. View the material in Full Screen Mode (allows for zooming in and zooming out). This mode also allows participants to change the view from ‘presentation’ to ‘magazine’ to ‘paper’.

2. Press the download button to immediately download and open the document in Adobe Acrobat for reading and printing from your desktop.

3. Click with your mouse anywhere on the document to enlarge the page. Once enlarged you will have full control over zoom in and zoom out capabilities.

4. Print just the page you are viewing. You can print the entire document via use of the download button.

5. Search Feature: search keywords within the document.  This is particularly helpful when trying to answer questions from the exam worksheet. Look up keywords to assist you.

By clicking on the image ‘Need Help?’ below each course you will see a sample of the SmartLook Viewer. We have created descriptions of each of the icons and what they mean. Please take a moment to view this information in order to familiarize yourself with this new technology. You can take a look here if you like.

Quantum Units Continuing Education makes every effort to improve the quality of our program. We do this based upon the exceptional feedback we receive from our participants on your exam form – each and every exam evaluation is reviewed by our staff.