Continuing Education
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APsA is an accredited provider of continuing education for physicians, psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, and counselors. We also provide maintenance of certification points for physicians certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
View APsA’s priority topics list for developing education in psychoanalysis. This list is compiled from the APsA 2024 Spring Needs Assessment Survey by our members.
Leadership Seminars
DPE CLOS IV | 6-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Exploring Unconscious Uses and Abuses of Power in Organizational Life
Developed by the Department of Psychoanalytic Education Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies
Learn more about this Six-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar by clicking on the button below.
Online Courses
Self-Paced Continuing Education
To purchase APsA Online Courses for your continuing education, please login to your APsA account and visit “Browse Events.” If you are not an APsA member, you may still purchase our online education by creating an account. Browse all available courses below.
Cost: $100 nonmembers, $70 members, $50 in-training members and students
Interpretation: Voice of the Field
Credit Amount: 2 CME/CE credits
Format: Self-Paced, Online Recording
Includes: JAPA article, recorded video interview with author Donnel Stern, posttest and evaluation, and certificate
Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
Credit Amount: 2 CME/CE credits
Format: Self-Paced, Online Recording
Includes: 2-hour online recording, posttest, evaluation, and certificate
AI & Actual Psychoanalysis
Credit Amount: 2 CME/CE credits
Format: Self-Paced, Online Recording
Includes: 2-hour online recording, posttest, evaluation, and certificate
Summer Symposium: Reimagining Engagment
Credit Amount: 2 CME/CE credits
Format: Self-Paced, Online Recording
Includes: 2-hour online recording, posttest, evaluation, and certificate
Educational Credit Types
In addition to providing the following educational credit types for licensure and certification renewal, we also accredit external education for CME/CE credit. To learn how to apply your educational programs for CME/CE accreditation, visit APsA’s Joint Provider CME/CE program.
Questions? Email: Kate Brundage, Director of Accreditation, [email protected].
IPCE JOINT ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, the American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
PHYSICIANS
The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. APsA delivers education that is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.
PSYCHOLOGISTS
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
SOCIAL WORKERS
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the American Psychoanalytic Association is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program.
COUNSELORS
American Psychoanalytic Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7556. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. American Psychoanalytic Association is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS / ASSOCIATES
The American Psychoanalytic Association has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria.
NURSES
The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
PHARMACISTS / PHARMACY TECHNICIANS
The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
AMERICAN BOARD OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY – Maintenance of Certification
Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities, APsA has met the requirements as Lifelong Learning CME for the following ABMS Member Boards: Psychiatry and Neurology.
NEW YORK STATE SOCIAL WORKERS
American Psychoanalytic Association, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0186.
NEW YORK STATE PSYCHOLOGISTS
The American Psychoanalytic Association, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0153.
NEW YORK STATE LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS
American Psychoanalytic Association, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0013.
OTHER PROFESSIONS
Other profession types will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants may claim credit for recertification; however, their professional organization/institute hold the final say on which accredited activities they accept.