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Mastering Your Craft: The Role of Continuing Education in Professional Development

Access a wide range of online courses designed to help mental health professionals earn continuing education credits. Stay informed while enhancing your knowledge and skills with tailored courses for mental health professionals.

Cutting Through Stigma: A Harm Reduction Approach to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Learn how to adapt harm reduction principles from addiction treatment to support clients engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) that follows the ACA Code of Ethics. Discover how to use these techniques to create supportive, client-centered treatment plans that reduce isolation and encourage help-seeking behaviors among individuals engaging in NSSI.

Parental Alienation 101 for Counselors

During this training, learn the fundamentals of the resist and refuse parent-child conflict phenomenon known as parental alienation. Additionally, learn the Baker Model (formerly the Five Factor Model) as a structured framework for identifying alienation.

It’s (Not) Just Hair: Healing the Complex Relationship Between Black Women and Their Hair

Focusing on sociopolitical marginalization of Black hair, learn about the relationship between Black woman and their hair, develop strategies to assess internalized bias, self-hate and hair trauma, and gain tools to promote racial healing, self-acceptance and celebration of natural hair.

Ways to Receive Continuing Education Credit

Professional Development Center

Earn continuing education credit by taking advantage of ACA's online professional development programming. Here you can access innovative educational content created for the counseling profession. Learn in a variety of formats such as video-based courses, education sessions, and webinars; as well as text-based book chapters and journal articles.

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ACA Conference & Expo

When you attend our flagship educational and professional development event, you'll have the opportunity to receive Continuing Education (CE) credit hours. Also as an attendee, you'll explore new strategies for self-care, advocate for the counseling care of tomorrow, and access the latest tools and resources to support your clients. Attend our conference and enjoy networking.

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Certificate in Counseling Youth Series

Join us for eight, expert-led sessions that will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to address the range of pressing issues impacting youth today. Completion of all eight sessions will allow participants to earn the ACA Certificate in Counseling Interventions and Evidence-Based Treatment for Specific Issues with Children and Youth.

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Continuing Education Approval

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

NAADAC: The Association for Addiction Professionals

Association for Play Therapy (APT)

Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC)

New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners