Continuing Education

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Personal Attendance Log

Complete and retain this log for your records. 

How to Claim CE/CME Credit

• Use the Personal Attendance Log to enter the titles of sessions you attended and retain for your records to complete the online attendance application.
• If you purchase CE/CME, you will receive an email one week after the end of the end of the conference to complete your CE/CME session evaluations online. Evaluations are provided to the speakers anonymously.

• If you attended the session live in its entirety, you will be required to complete a meeting evaluation only.
• If you attended the session live and left to finish via the recording, you will be required to complete the meeting evaluation and take the associated quiz.
• If you attended the session via recording only, you will be required to complete the meeting evaluation and take the associated quiz.

Completing the Online CE/CME Evaluation and Printing Your Certificate*:

1. You will receive a link to the online CE/CME Session Evaluation via email one week after the end of the conference.
2. Use your ISTSS login to access. If you do not remember your login, you can use the link to prompt the system to send it to you.
3. Scroll down on the screen until you see the meeting CE/CME. Click on “Take Exam” to complete the evaluation. An exam is NOT given.
4. Choose your credit type - CE or CME.
5. Evaluate the sessions you attended. Full attendance is required for CE credit.
6. When your Session Evaluation and CE/CME Required Questions are complete, click “Submit.” You will not be able to edit your submission after you submit.
7. You will have your credited certificate immediately available to print.

*Must be completed by March 1, 2021, for live sessions.

Questions? See FAQs about continuing medical education.

Educational Need

The ISTSS Annual Meeting provides a forum for sharing research, clinical strategies, public policy concerns and theoretical formulations on trauma. It is an international assembly of professionals and students representing an array of disciplines including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, counselors, researchers, administrators, victim advocates, journalists, clergy and others with an interest in the study and treatment of traumatic stress. Speakers are strongly requested to avoid unnecessary jargon and to make their work and its implication to the traumatic stress field as accessible as possible to those who do not share their particular perspective and type of scientific approach. This is designed to facilitate increased understanding of what different types of researchers (e.g., basic scientists, clinical researchers) focusing on different types of traumatic stressors (e.g., child maltreatment, disasters, terrorism, war) using different research methods and perspectives (e.g., epidemiology, genetics, psychosocial, psychobiological) have found as well as what the implications of their work are for the traumatic stress field. Our aspirational goal is to establish a jargon-free zone in which experts maximize communication of their work, findings and implications in a way that facilitates understanding and cross-fertilization among researchers, clinicians and policy makers from other perspectives.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss emerging scientific evidence that can inform and propel dissemination of evidence based approaches to assessment and treatment of trauma related problems.
2. Identify unique challenges to providing evidence based care, including in low resource, underserved settings, and recognize potential approaches to improving access to care.
3. Describe novel ways that treatments are being adapted to improve targeting of symptoms as well as decrease burden and difficulties associated with accessing care.
4. Discuss the latest innovations in mechanism research, as a means of improving the precision of prevention and intervention approaches.

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must complete an evaluation form to receive a certificate of completion. Your chosen sessions must be attended in their entirety. Partial credit of individual sessions is not available.

NOTE: If you are seeking continuing education credit for a specialty not listed below, it is your responsibility to contact your licensing/certification board to determine course eligibility for your licensing/certification requirement.

Accreditation Statement 

Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Amedco is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Amedco maintains responsibility for this course. Social Workers completing this course receive 63.50 live / 173.5 enduring GENERAL continuing education credits.
 
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Social Workers: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE,  NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY
* WV accepts ASWB ACE unless activity is in live in West Virginia then an application is required.
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Counselors: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MO, ND, NE, NM, NH, NV, OK, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY
AL / Counselors: Activities not providing NBCC approval may be approved by the Board for individual licensees upon receipt of acceptable documentation prior to the activity.  Please send course details to your licensing board for approval BEFORE the event.  No approvals afterward by the board.
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NC, NE, NH, NM, NV, OK, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY
MA / MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.
The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Addictions Professionals: AK, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, ND, NM, NV, OK, OR, SC, WA, WI, WV, WY
 
New York Board for Social Workers
Amedco SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0115. 63.50 live / 173.5 enduring hours.
 
New York Board for Mental Health Counselors
Amedco is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0061. 63.50 live / 173.5 enduring hours.
 
New York Board for Marriage & Family Therapists
Amedco is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0032. 63.50 live / 173.5 enduring hours.
 
FL Board of Behavioral Sciences
Amedco is approved by the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling. Provider BAP#39-Exp.3-31-2021. 63.75 live / 173.5 enduring GENERAL Hours
 
Ohio Social Workers & Marriage & Family Therapists
Activities held OUTSIDE of Ohio and not approved by state or national, participants can submit a post-request to the board for attending (done via CE Broker). OH SW accepts ASWB.
 
Ohio Chemical Dependency Board
This course has been submitted to the OH CD board for review.

Psychologists

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing edu­cation for psychologists. ISTSS main­tains responsibility for this program and its content. 63.50 hours

LIVE: Pre-Meeting Institutes Up to 24.50 CE Hours; Annual Meeting up to 39.00 CE Hours, Total of 63.50 CE Hours
ENDURING: Pre-Meeting Institutes Up to 42.0 CE Hours; Annual Meeting up to 131.25 CE Hours, Total of 173.50 CE Hour