PWEBS (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, navigate, understand, and apply the PracticeWise Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Services Literature Database (PWEBS).

Course Structure:
This course consists of four online learning modules that include instructional videos and progress questions. The learning modules are followed by a posttest and course evaluation. Three days of access to PWEBS is also included with the course. A continuing education certificate is available for download after successful completion of the course.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe what PWEBS is and how it can be useful in the delivery of mental health care to youth.
2. Identify four ways to use PWEBS to explore research evidence for providing psychosocial services to families.
3. Access and navigate the four primary search types in PWEBS: Youth Treatments, Treatment Protocols, Treatment Practice, and Research Papers.
4. Explain the rationale and purpose for the Youth Treatments search.
5. Describe how the PWEBS Youth Treatments search was made and how it works.
6. Discuss the five levels of strength of evidence, and how to use the levels to prioritize treatment options.
7. Distinguish between treatment families, treatment protocols and practice elements and explain how they relate to each other hierarchically.
8. Summarize common myths and misconceptions about the Youth Treatments search.
9. Demonstrate use of multiple related PWEBS searches to explore the treatment research related to a specific service decision. 
10. Explain how PWEBS search results can be considered in conjunction with context and specific knowledge of a youth to inform a best-fitting treatment approach. 
11. Demonstrate how to proceed when a PWEBS search results yield no or limited studies.

Course Components:

• 3-day subscription to PWEBS
• Pretest
• Instructional videos
• Review questions
• Posttest
• Course evaluation
• Continuing education certificate

Continuing Education:
2.50 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:
Read about your course instructors.

• The purchase of this CE course includes a subscription to the PWEBS Database Online Resource for three (3) one-day periods for use within one year following the purchase date.
• In the event that a purchaser has an existing subscription to PWEBS, purchaser can request a refund of $15.00 of the purchase price by sending a request to [email protected]. The refund request must include the PracticeWise username for the account of the individual enrolled in the CE course as the receipt of the CE course purchase.
• All users enrolled in this course are subject to the PracticeWise website Terms of Use and enrollment in the course constitutes acceptance of these terms. Completion of this order constitutes an order form for three (3) one-day subscriptions to the PWEBS subscription service as outlined in the PracticeWise Service Use Agreement.