HealthForumOnline Updates CE Course on Diabetes for Mental Health Professionals
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) May 21, 2014 -- HealthForumOnline (HFO), a nationally-approved (APA, ASWB, NBCC, CA-BBS) online provider of continuing education (CE) for psychologists, marital family therapists, social workers, counselors, and other allied healthcare professionals announces updates to its online CE course The Psychological Impact of Diabetes: What Every Clinician Should Know. This is a relevant and timely course for health professionals as more than 25.8 million people in the U.S., or approximately 8% of the national population, have diabetes; 7 million of these cases yet undiagnosed (1). More than 26% of people over age 65 have diabetes (1). These statistics are even more alarming when one considers that the number of cases of diabetes is expected to increase by 42% in developed countries by 2025, largely as a result of lifestyle factors, including obesity. As alarming is the fact that 17% of youths in the U.S. have a Body Mass Index greater than or equal to the 95th percentile, substantially contributing to the increasing number of young people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
“Today, diabetes has reached epidemic proportions,” notes Dr. Michelle Rodoletz, Clinical Psychologist and Director of HealthForumOnline’s Continuing Education Program. “In a disease in which blood glucose control makes or breaks the road to a healthy future, diabetics encounter numerous emotional and behavioral challenges that directly affect this control. The objective of HFO’s online CE course is to provide mental health professionals and other allied health care providers with the tools necessary to understand the biopsychosocial complexities presented for patients with diabetes and to facilitate disease management.”
This online CE course addresses specific clinical aspects of diabetes that may be affected by inadequate psychological adjustment to the condition. For example, understanding the association between diabetes and several common mental health and medical conditions is relevant when working with those with type 2 diabetics. The course also identifies practical theory- and evidence-based psychological interventions and strategies that can be easily adopted into clinical practice to improve mental health, disease management, and medical outcomes for people with diabetes.
1. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. (2011). NATIONAL DIABETES FACT SHEET: NATIONAL ESTIMATES AND GENERAL INFORMATION ON DIABETES AND PREDIABETES IN THE UNITED STATES, 2011. ATLANTA, GA: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.
About HealthForumOnline:
Mental health professionals can chose from HFO’s 20 categories of continuing education (CE) topics related to health psychology and behavioral medicine (i.e., ethics, cancer adaptation, women’s health, cultural diversity, eating disorders, reproduction/sexuality, aging, pediatric behavioral medicine, assessment, chemical dependency/substance abuse/addiction, chronic/acute illness, clinical intervention, mindfulness-based interventions, positive psychology, PTSD, group therapy, infectious disease, long-term care, neuropsychology, pain management, spirituality, LBGT issues) containing over 90 online CE courses that are fast, convenient and cost-effective. HealthForumOnline (HFO) is [approved as a provider of CE courses by the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (CA-BBS). HFO’s CE Program’s Advisory Committee and authors are comprised of over 65 nationally-recognized experts in the field of mental health.
Michelle Rodoletz, Ph.D., HealthForumOnline, http://www.healthforumonline.com, +1 (215) 887-6669, [email protected]
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