Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Streamline The Process With Online CEU Courses For MFT Licensees

By Marissa Velazquez


There are a host of sites to get online CEU courses for MFT practitioners. For a fee, online certification in CEUs can be had in an afternoon. These Continuing Education Units are required by many states to maintain licensure. Social workers, therapists, addiction and drug abuse counselors, registered nurses and LPNs can all log into any of a number of sites and get what they need. It is simply a matter of checking out all the possibilities and making sure that the site has everything necessary to complete the process easily.

For starters, ensure that the site has the requirements matching the license for an MFT. Therapists and other health care workers need to be sure that the classes taken qualify for the state in which they are licensed. On the degree and the state and CEUs and the sites will appear in the results. Be careful of sites that offer too much. They appear to have everything, but dig deep to make sure the relevant class is available.

Review the topics that are available. Many sites serve many needs, so they may have everything from human resources to psych techs. They can have a dizzying array of options. In counseling, there will be classes that address issues around sexuality, gender identity, sex and society and sexual healing. There can be addiction counseling as well as issues in addiction and therapy. Partner and elder abuse, violence in the home and further topics can be had.

Take a look at the exam. Most of the sites offer the actual test for free, so it can be reviewed first. This allows the therapist to study to the test. The course is what costs money. If not, the site will show what will be covered in the course.

The process is very straightforward. The format is simple: for one CEU or Continuing Education Unit, the person taking the course is required to sit in a class for one hour, or watch a video for the same time. Alternately, if the student reads four to five thousand words, that is sufficient.

Since this process occurs on the web, the process couldn't be simpler. Carve a few hours out for the whole process and find the appropriate site. Research that the topics that need to be covered are there. All the reading necessary will be available on the site itself. The passing score is generally seventy to seventy-five percent.

It might be good to point out that if time is a factor, study the test first and then peruse the web for general information to get the mind ready. Then, when time permits, log in to the website with the actual test and do the work. Most of these courses will be more like reviews for licensed marriage and family therapists, but the a quick review in advance can't hurt.

The best way to maintain certification is online CEU courses for MFT practitioners. No longer do therapists have to carve out time to go to some distant hotel just to arrive and discover that only one or two classes is even relevant. Now, in the therapist's quiet time, these CEU classes can be taken online, finished and checked off the list of things to do. All around a much better way of doing things.




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