Communication Skills: Advanced (full course)

PracticeWise, LLC, is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PracticeWise, LLC, maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

This course is designed to help you learn to recognize, understand, and apply the practice element Communication Skills: Advanced.

Course Structure:
This course consists of three online learning modules that include instructional videos and progress questions. The learning modules are followed by a posttest and course evaluation. The Communication Skills: Advanced practice guide is also included with the course. A continuing education certificate is available for download after successful completion of the course.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize how Communication Skills: Advanced can help families get along better by improving how they speak and listen to one another.
2. Summarize the essential elements of Communication Skills: Advanced, including explaining the rationale, creating a communication hierarchy, reviewing the intent-impact model of communication, and having the family practice discussing topics on the communication hierarchy.
3. Identify effective speaker and listener skills.
4. Guide family members through each step of Communication Skills: Advanced and help them anticipate potential challenges that commonly arise in implementing this practice.

Course Components:

• Practice Guide
• Pretest
• Instructional videos
• Posttest
• Review questions
• Course evaluation
• Continuing education certificate

Continuing Education:
1.25 credits

Course Format:
Online distance learning

Course Requirements:

• Completion of the course pretest, instructional videos, and review questions
• Completion of the course posttest with at least 8 out of 10 items correct
• Completion of the course evaluation

Target Audience:
Psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and others who want to advance their professional skills

Instructional Level:
Introductory, intermediate

Faculty:
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