NPACE Mental Health Bundle 2026

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This Mental Health bundle is essential for practitioners practicing in a Primary care or Mental health setting. This 6 course bundle has everything you need to prepare you to tackle anything Mental Health with confidence. Topics include but are not limited to trauma and stress, mass shooting, suicidality, and treating guidelines for anxiety and depression.

FORMAT OPTIONS

Streaming Online Video

ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS

This bundle is hosted on the site of our educational partner, NPACE. After you purchase the bundle, you will immediately receive a confirmation email from APEA's CE Center with instructions on how to access your purchase. You will be required to create an account on NPACE.org.

Once logged in on NPACE, you will need to complete all of the components of each individual course in the bundle. Each course is comprised of a pre-test, presentation, course evaluation, and post-test. You will have unlimited attempts to pass the post-test. Upon completing these components and passing the post-test, you will receive your CME certificate.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Therapy 101 for Patients with Anxiety and Depression

This one hour lively, interactive presentation focuses on basic therapeutic principles and strategies to build better communication with patients and have more effective visits. Approaches are those that can be integrated into health visits in varied settings and apply to varied populations. We will review effective uses of therapeutic communication including strategies to engage clients in their care, address potential racial and cultural differences, and build trust and connection. We will discuss common therapeutic strategies, mostly based in cognitive behavioral therapy, for talking with patients about management of common concerns like reducing anxiety and improving mood.

“From I Should” to “I Did”: Using Motivational Interviewing to Help Your Patients Reach Their Goals

Motivational Interviewing emphasizes a communicative, collaborative approach focusing on fostering internal motivation to change a current behavior while promoting self-efficacy and growth. It is also evidenced-based, with many studies measuring the effectiveness of this approach in areas from addiction to postpartum depression. The beauty of Motivational Interviewing is that, though proficiency is complex and takes time, novice users can implement strategies and create noticeable impact. This upbeat, interactive, even humorous training equips attendees with essential knowledge and skills to start using Motivational Interviewing immediately. Attendees will have immediate new tools in their toolbox to help clients identify and move towards their goals. Attendees will practice with actual scripts demonstrating how to respond to patient ambivalence, resistance, or fear. The presentation will help increase attendees’ knowledge and comfort with helping individuals who are stuck and struggling and improve understanding of how to help clients live healthier lives.

Navigating the Storm: Mastering Crisis Prevention and Intervention

This engaging educational session will equip the nurse practitioner with essential skills and strategies to handle critical situations effectively. This presentation covers the fundamentals of crisis management, including early warning signs, de-escalation techniques, and intervention strategies. Participants will learn to identify potential crises, apply preventive measures, and utilize proven methods to manage high-stress situations calmly and efficiently. Gain practical insights into maintaining safety, communicating clearly under pressure, and fostering a supportive environment. This session is ideal for nurse practitioners who are interested in enhancing their ability to prevent and manage crises in various settings. Attendees will learn actionable skills and build confidence to address crises with a proactive and informed approach.

Understanding Suicidality: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention for the Health Care Provider

This presentation examines strategies that health care providers can utilize to assess for and prevent suicide in the health care setting. The epidemiology of suicide will be briefly reviewed, and there will be a special discussion surrounding suicide among health care providers. This talk includes approaches to training office staff in suicide awareness and prevention. Safety planning, documentation, follow up, and self-care for the provider will be reviewed. The goal of this activity is to empower health care providers to confidently address suicide risk in their patient populations.

Realizing the Potential of Rapid-Acting Treatments for Depression

This session will focus on the difficult respiratory illness in certain patient populations, how to treat and new guidelines

Neurobiology & Precision Medicine for Anxiety Disorders in the Primary Care Setting

This session will focus on the difficult respiratory illness in certain patient populations, how to treat and new guidelines

TIME TO COMPLETE

After you access this bundle on NPACE's website, you will have 90 days to complete the entire contents of the bundle and claim all contents.

CREDITS

NPACE designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.5 CNE credit(s), of which 2.5 is pharmacology credit. Courses' Expiration Date: December 31st, 2026

DISCLAIMER

The material presented in this continuing education program is being made available for educational purposes only and is not intended to represent the best or only methods, medications and/or guidelines appropriate for the medical situation discussed. Rather the material is intended to present an approach, view, statement, or opinion of the presenter(s), which may be helpful, or of interest to other practitioners and should not be used by clinicians without the evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities. NPACE disclaims any liability, loss, injury, or damage incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any information given in a presentation.

DISCLOSURE OF UNLABELED USE

This educational activity may mention the uses of products that are not approved by the FDA for the indication(s) being discussed. The presenter(s) are instructed to notify participants when they are discussing unapproved uses or investigational agents. The opinions related to unapproved uses of products are solely those of the presenter(s) and are not endorsed or recommended by NPACE. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT

There is no commercial support for this activity.

ACCREDITED PROVIDER

Provider Accreditation Statement

Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).

In addition to ANCC, NPACE is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by: the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP8720 and Florida CE Broker #50-1476.

FACULTY

Debbie Granick, DNP, PMHNP, LCSW, MPH

Dr. Debbie Granick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Doctorally-prepared Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with an additional Masters in Public Health. She is originally from St. Louis, Missouri and attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina.

She has worked in the mental health field for thirty years, serving youth and adults and specifically enjoying her work with women. She utilizes a holistic, genuine, “straight-shooting” approach, and throws in a little humor, which her clients appreciate. She currently divides her professional time between a part time clinical practice providing medication management and therapy and her role as a thought leader, content creator, speaker and consultant advocating for the integration of medication and counseling to provide best practice care for patients.

She also speaks on topics including the impossible goal of work/life balance, caring for your mental health, parenting, and coping with life transitions. Her goal is to help health providers feel confident and skilled in the mental health care they provide, reduce provider burnout, and improve patient experience with whole person care.

Josh Hamilton, DNP, RN-BC, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CTMH, CNE, FAANP

Josh Hamilton resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he practices Tele-psychiatry on a national scale. With more than a quarter-century of nursing experience, he also holds professorial appointments, academic leadership positions and provides extensive professional consultation services in higher education, industry and clinical affairs.

He was associate medical director for the largest managed care behavioral health network in the Desert Southwest and, as a university dean and vice president, he built one of the largest portfolio collections of competency-based graduate Nursing degrees in the United States.

His professional interests include neurobiology, pharmacology and epigenetics. He is an internationally-recognized speaker on these (and related) topics at conferences and professional meetings. He served on the psychiatric medication working group at the Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation, a FDA-sponsored project at the University of Maryland.

He is a NEI Master Psychopharmacologist and a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. The Point of Care Network proclaimed Josh to be America’s Top Psychiatric NP in 2021. He won the award again in 2024.

Learn more about Dr. Josh Hamilton at www.linkedin.com/in/hamiltondnp

Rhone D’Errico, DNP, MBA, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, ENP-C, CNE, ACUE

Dr. Rhone D’Errico is a Doctor of Nursing Practice with certifications as a Family, Psychiatric-Mental Health, and Emergency Nurse Practitioner. He has worked as a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit and as a nurse practitioner in mental health, primary care, college health, and the emergency department.

Dr. D’Errico has taught in multiple Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, and Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs. Dr. D’Errico’s passion for nursing education led him to become the founding Program Director for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada School of Nursing.

Dr. D’Errico currently holds the rank of Professor in the Rasmussen University School of Nursing, where he serves as Primary Faculty and Track lead for the PMHNP program. He practices via telepsychiatry as the psychiatric provider for a 120+ bed rural intensive inpatient and residential drug treatment program, as well as for a non-profit intensive outpatient drug treatment program. Dr. D’Errico is also a professional speaker, trainer, and educational consultant, and is a candidate daseinanalyst in the American Daseinsanalytic Institute.

Dr. D’Errico’s professional and academic interests include promoting science-based psychiatric diagnosis, improving telehealth delivery in mental health care, and maximizing wellness by leveraging psychopharmacology and existential analysis to help his clients achieve extraordinary results across all areas of life.