Continuing Education Classes

Professional Treatment Services prides itself in providing free Continuing Education classes to the Lawrence and Northeast Kansas community as part of its services. To enroll, please click on the enroll icon next to the presentation of your choice and complete the enrollment form. You will receive a confirmation or your request within twenty-four hours. This confirmation is based availability as all classes are limited to 20 participants.

Classes are scheduled for the first Friday each month in the afternoon from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM. Sign-in is at 1:45 PM. Unless otherwise noted each class is 2 hours of CEU’s. Certificates of attendance will be provided.

The participant will:

• Increase their knowledge of the effects of addiction on the family dynamics and rules

• Learn the Developmental Process of Family Recovery

Presenter: Kendall Heiman, LMSW 2 CEU’s provided.

Check in at 1:30 PM

The participant will increase their knowledge of:

• What behavioral addictions are

• How behavioral addictions affect recovery

• The types of behavioral addictions

• Treatment considerations for behavioral addictions

Presenter: Duane L. Olberding, LSCSW, CADCIII, KCGC 2.0 CEU’s provided.

Check in is at 1:30 PM

The participant will:

• Explore the dynamics of blame/shame

• Increase the ability of having forgiveness as an option

• Be able to define forgiveness and the difference between forgiveness and excuse

• Examine why it is so hare (and so important) to forgive ourselves.

Presenter: Cliff Bond, M. Div 2.0 CEU’s provided.

Check in is at 1:30 PM

The participant will:

• Learn the signs of pathological gambling

• Learn how to aid the family in supporting without enabling the pathological gambler

• Learn how to set up a financial safety net around the pathological gambler

Presenter: Duane L. Olberding, LSCSW, CADCIII, KCGC 2.0 CEU’s provided.

Check in at 1:30 PM

Objectives include:

• Tools for managing when one is physically or mentally incapacitated – for the physical person and for finances

• Define what is an estate

• Asset transfer techniques during lifetime and at death – assets transfer by law, by will, by trusts, by gifts, and by contract

• Relapse issues in the estate planning process

Presenter: Esther M. Maddux, Ph.D., CFP®, AAPS 2.0 CEU’s provided.

Check in is at 1:30 PM

The participant will:

• Learn how to use humor for treatment of others

• Learn how to use humor for individual self-care

• Create a bio-psycho- social-spiritual care model for them.

Presenter: Duane L. Olberding, LSCSW, CADCIII, KCGC 2.0 CEU’s provided.

Check in at 1:30 PM