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Continuing Education Courses for Therapists, Social Workers , Counselors and Nurses.

Quantum Units Continuing Education offers Free Online Continuing Education CEU materials and Free Online Continuing Education CEU testing 24/7. QUANTUM CEU Courses are affordable and of superior quality. CEUs are approved for the following Licensees:

Social Work CEUs: LCSW, ASW, MSW, MFT CEUs: pre-MFT CEUs, MFCC, LMFT, Nursing CEUs: RN, LVN, CNA, PT, OT, LPC CEUs: LMHC,LPCC, Mental Health Counselors, NCC, MAC, Addiction and Substance Abuse Counselor CEUs: LADC, CAC, CSAC, CADC, CATC, CADDTP, FACT and CEUs for many more licensees!

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CEU Courses on Grief and Loss by Gabriel Constans, Ph.D. at Quantum Units Education Online:

Complicated Grief

Course Description:

This course provides personal and professional information, testimonies and time-tested tools for healthy ways to cope and adjust to life after sudden and/or violent loss. It looks at the reality of sudden loss with perspective and insight, including the author’s (Dr. Gabriel Constans) personal experiences, as well as his clients and colleagues, who have been walking, crawling and sometimes running in the midst of sudden, unexpected, often horrific circumstances.

Course Objectives:

1. Identify the differences between anticipated and sudden loss and name five factors that effect individual reactions to loss.
2. Summariaze how people perceive and make sense of trauma and unexpected change, and determine what information is most helpful immediately after death.
3. Assess complications that can arise from sudden and/or violent death and determine how to effectively mourn the person who died and maintain a healthy connection.
4. Recognize self-care techniques including self-awareness, externalization and actions.

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Grief and Depression

Course Description:

This short course discusses the differences and interrelationships between Grief and Depression according to the DSM-IV. This is another course in a series on Grief and Loss by Dr. Gabriel Constans.

Course Objectives:

1. Identify the characteristics of major depression and differentiate between grief and depressive reactions.
2. Recognize the components used in assessing, evaluating, and questioning the depressed or grieving individual.
3. Describe practical suggestions to assist those with grief and loss, depression, and anxiety.

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Men and Grief

Course Description:

This course explores the different ways in which men react to and heal from grief and sadness. The course weaves in the complex web of biology and environment to illuminate how and why men may respond differently than women, as well as how their responses are similar. By exploring some of the different and similar emotional responses and their roots, the hope is to be better able to support one another through painful times.

Course Objectives:

1. Recognize that individuals all grieve differently, despite gender; but that some similarities tend to exist among men.
2. Identify the emotions and behaviors that are and are not helpful or required for healing.
3. Be aware of talk and story-telling patterns that may be part of a man’s healing process.
4. Identify some of the myths around a man’s path to healing from loss.

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Good Grief - Love, Loss and Laughter

Course Description:

This course was developed from the book, Good Grief: Love, Loss and Laughter by Gabriel Constans, PhD, which was written for professionals and everyday people who face death and grief. The writing is complete with real situations and honest stories to help bring love and hope to this difficult situation. Those in the mental health, medical, or social work field as well as parents, teachers, students, friends, or anyone else dealing with death and grief could benefit from the practical and compassionate information presented.

Course Objectives:

1. Review personal stories of grief and loss while identifying honest reactions to grieving and strategies for effective support.
2. Explore pertinent life and death issues including sudden loss, male and female grief reactions, loss of a child, intimacy after loss, and remembering those who have died.
3. Describe the importance of personal choice in reacting, recovering, healing, and living with death and loss.
4. Evaluate the significance of the rituals and and ceremonies used to acknowledge death, and examine personal and spiritual beliefs about death, dying, and life after death.

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