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This continuing education manual equips licensed psychologists and advanced graduate clinicians with a rigorous, clinically usable understanding of mental health issues affecting American Indian and Alaska Native populations. It synthesizes empirical findings on mental health disparities, trauma exposure, and service use, presents ethical and clinical implications of Indigenous frameworks such as alter-Native psy-ence, and reviews evidence from culturally adapted and Indigenized treatment approaches. Emphasis is placed on culturally responsive assessment, community sovereignty, historical trauma, and collaborative practice models within tribal and federal service systems.

Author

FRANKLIN CARVAJAL

Last Updated

07-Aug-2026

Instructional Level

Advanced

Credit Hours

5 Hours

This course provides licensed psychologists and advanced clinicians with a comprehensive understanding of behavioral health disparities, historical trauma, protective factors, and culturally responsive clinical care for American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents. Drawing on epidemiologic surveillance, systematic reviews, and community-partnered scholarship, it integrates findings on substance use, emotional well-being, suicide risk, and violence exposure. The course emphasizes ethical practice, cultural humility, and incorporates case scenarios illustrating clinical decision-making with AI/AN youth and families.

Author

FRANKLIN CARVAJAL

Last Updated

07-Aug-2026

Instructional Level

Advanced

Credit Hours

4 Hours

This course synthesizes contemporary evidence on cybersecurity, privacy, and ethical risks associated with generative AI mental health chatbots. It explores the crisis in informed consent, highlighting the clinical implications, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines for licensed psychologists and graduate-level clinicians. The material covers risk assessment, psychological impacts, governance challenges, and offers practice recommendations and case scenarios to help clinicians responsibly integrate AI tools into mental health services.

Author

FRANKLIN CARVAJAL

Last Updated

07-Aug-2026

Instructional Level

Advanced

Credit Hours

3 Hours

This continuing education manual synthesizes evidence from a foundational randomized controlled trial of Woebot, an automated conversational agent delivering cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) content to young adults with symptoms of depression and anxiety. It covers the theoretical foundations, empirical findings, clinical case applications, ethical considerations, and practice guidelines for licensed psychologists to responsibly recommend, monitor, or decline conversational agent use in digital mental health care.

Author

FRANKLIN CARVAJAL

Last Updated

07-Aug-2026

Instructional Level

Advanced

Credit Hours

3 Hours

This course provides an in-depth examination of the complex comorbidity between antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and substance use disorders (SUD). It explores diagnostic criteria, psychological and neurobiological mechanisms, developmental trajectories, clinical characteristics, and treatment challenges specific to this dual-diagnosis population. Emphasis is placed on enhancing clinical sophistication and guiding personalized intervention strategies for psychologists and mental health clinicians working with this high-risk group.

Author

FRANKLIN CARVAJAL

Last Updated

03-Aug-2026

Instructional Level

Advanced

Credit Hours

3 Hours