Expanding Your Knowledge Base 

In this issue, we’ve compiled helpful solutions on a number of initiatives that will help expand your knowledge base. From best practices on navigating your career, to expert-based podcasts, we explore diverse topics from many angles, with dialogues between experts and practitioners.

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• Cope or Rope, A Primer on Incels Mental Health & Risk Assessment  (August 8th | 3 Hours, 3 CEs): This program will discuss recent interview data to inform participants about the individuals and the group (e.g., brief history, associations with violence, common characteristics), themes in online discussions, and shared beliefs.
  
  
• Humanizing Digital Spaces, Mental Health in the Metaverse - What We Need to Know (August 12th | 3 Hours, 3 CEs): This program will cover the basic information that mental health professionals need to know about the Metaverse and provide opportunities to discuss how the application of mental health can be instilled with inclusion and sensitivity. 
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• Prevention for Children of Addicted Parents, A Social Justice Imperative (August 17th | 3 Hours, 3 CEs): Early intervention for children of parental substance and behavioral addiction is a critical social justice and advocacy priority (Suomi). This program will discuss the chronic stress and trauma experienced by children of parents with addiction. The program will cover developing support groups and include two activities from NACoA's Children Program Kit.
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• Integrated Behavior Health: An Overview (August 29th | 3 Hours, 3 CEs): Developed for professionals, this program explores how an integrated behavioral health care approach is likely beneficial for clients seeking services from behavioral health providers. Empirically-based research findings will be highlighted throughout this program.
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August 2022 through July 2023, earning 24 CEUs total.
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Wishing you well, 

Patricia A. Zapf, PhD
VP, Continuing & Professional Studies
Palo Alto University
pzapf@paloaltou.edu
concept.PaloAltoU.edu

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