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Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatments Training
January 19, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
This training is available to foster parents and worth 2 CEUs.
After this training, you will:
- Know the definition and prevalence of mental illness in the United States.
- Understand The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and who can diagnose an individual or youth.
- Identify prevalent major mental illnesses, diagnoses and their symptoms.
- Be able to reference treatment and psychopharmacology options for major mental illness and other diagnoses.
Childcare is available at all trainings, but foster parents must sign-up for childcare prior to each training date. Foster Parents are required to earn 12 hours of CEUs each year of their licensing period (for a total of 24 hours per licensing period).
If you are a KVC foster parent, please complete the “KVC AFFILIATE REGISTRATION.” If you are a foster parent with another agency or an industry professional, please complete the “NON-KVC REGISTRATION.”
KVC Affiliate REGISTration Non-kvc REGISTration
If you have additional questions, you can contact our Training Coordinator at memmert@kvc.org.