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CA BBS mandated
continuing abuse requirement If
you are in danger call
911 or |
| Learning Objectives In this 7 unit course:
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This course meets the qualifications for 7 hours of continuing education units
maintains responsibility for the program. |
In fulfillment of the CA BBS mandated requirement:
Spousal or Partner Abuse- |
Around
the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced
into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Most often the
abuser is a member of her own family. Ending violence against women, a report from the Center for Communications Programs, Johns Hopkins University |
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1.5 million women and 834,700 men are raped and/or physicallyÊassaulted
by an intimate partner each year. Center for Disease Control |
Children who witness domestic violence are
more likely to exhibit behavioral and physical health problems
including depression, anxiety and violence towards peers. Adolescents
are also more likely to attempt suicide, abuse drugs and alcohol,
run away from home, engage in teenage prostitution and commit
sexual assault crimes. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services |
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women than men experience intimate partner violence.
According to the National Violence Against Women Survey, 1 out
of 4 U.S. women has been physically assaulted or raped by an intimate
partner; 1 out of every 14 U.S. men reported such an experience Center for Disease Control |
This 7 unit course
addresses the
'red flags'
assessment,
detection, and
intervention strategies including
community resources,
cultural factors,
substance abuse,
same gender abuse dynamics,
and
treatment regarding
spousal or partner
abuse
and may be taken in fulfillment of the
CA BBS mandated continuing abuse requirement
Optional text is $30 + shipping and handling
The e-book is $20, which is the course material without the post-test or credits
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Kate
Amatruda, LMFT, CST-T, BCETS, is
a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Board Certified
Expert in Traumatic Stress, and a teaching member of the
International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She is a Disaster
Service Mental Health volunteer with the Red Cross, and has
responded to the Katrina disaster, as well as to local fires
and floods with the Disaster Action Team. She went to Sri
Lanka with the Association for Play Therapy and OperationUSA.
She has lectured internationally and teaches in the Extended
Education departments at U.C. Berkeley and Sonoma State University.
She is the author of HIV: The Storm, Psyche & Soma, Trauma,
Terror and Treatment, and Painted Ponies: Bipolar Disorder
in Children, Adolescents and Adults. Her work with children
with cancer is featured in the video Sandplay Therapy and
the Liminal World. She is the co-author of Sandplay, The
Sacred Healing: A Guide to Symbolic Process and Reweaving
the Web: The Treatment of Substance Abuse. She practices
in Northern California.
