Self-Study (Distance Learning) Courses

Self-Study Courses

I am thrilled to introduce my first self-study courses, which I am able to offer for continuing education credit through my providership with the California Psychological Association. These offerings further my mission to enhance the clinical practices of licensed mental health clinicians by offering engaging, stimulating, psychoanalytically-informed courses of the highest caliber.

Developing an Advanced Ethical Framework for Clinical Practice: A Psychoanalytic Approach framework (Distance Learning)

I am pleased to release my new 4 hour course on clinical ethics in a self-study (distance learning) format. Participants will view my two recorded lectures, “Developing an Advanced Ethical Framework for Clinical Practice: A Psychoanalytic Approach” and “How to Manage the Ethical Ideal of Our Impossible Profession”. In addition, participants will read and reflect on two published papers:

  • Rolf Künstlicher (1996). The Function of the Frame: To Protect the Psychoanalytic Room. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 19(2), 150-164
  • Sarah Ackermann (2020). Impossible Ethics. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, (68)(4):561-582

A post-test completes the learning experience. What a great way for licensed mental health professionals to learn more about applying ethics to their clinical practice, in the comfort of home and on their own time schedule! It is a value at $89.

Ethics: Learn more and register here

White Liberal Guilt and Racism: Explorations using a Kleinian framework (Distance Learning)

This course is built around a series of papers from the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues about the ways in which White liberal guilt serves as an obstacle to reparation and harm reduction related to racism. Jane Caflisch’s paper, “When Reparation is Felt to Be Impossible: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue About Race” serves as the centerpiece followed by discussion papers from a diverse group of psychoanalytically informed clinicians Kali Cyrus, M. Fakhry Davids, and Sally Swartz.

These papers are so powerful, thought-provoking, and potentially transformative that I want to encourage clinicians to read and reflect on them, and earn continuing education credits in the process. The course includes my 25-minute video lecture with a foundation of Klein’s concepts and an overview of the papers. Since there is not a live element to this course, the pricing is also very reasonable! 5 CE credits are available.

Racism: Learn more and register here

Jennifer Kunst, PhD is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts continuing education credit granted by the California Psychological Association or by any of its Approved Providers. Jennifer Kunst, PhD maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

If you plan to use the credits in another state please check with that licensing jurisdiction to see if the credits will be accepted.

Learn more about my CPA provider accreditation, including information about its mission, complaint and refund policies, disability accommodations, and diversity statement here.