The Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute (PPI) offers a variety of educational opportunities. These include continuing education credits for mental-health professionals, as well community education programs on practical mental-health topics.

Continuing Education for Mental Health Professionals

PPI offers workshops and seminars for CEU credit on a variety of topics of interest. Through PPI’s collaboration with Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, the University School of Social Work, and the Pittsburgh Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, CEU credits are available for:

• Licensed Psychologists
• Licensed Social Workers
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
• National Certified Counselors

Community Education

PPI offers workshops and educational classes for the general public on a range of mental health and life-adjustment topics. These include grief, marital and family relationships, depression and anxiety, retirement, aging parents, stress management, and life transitions.

Following is a sample list of Community Education Workshops and Classes.

1. Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone: A Holistic Approach To Change.

2. Moving Through Transition: Maintaining Balance Through the Emotional Upheaval That Accompanies Change.

3. When Life Presents Crisis: Is It Opportunity or Disaster? Moving Through Grief and Loss in a Healthy Way.

4. Under the Umbrella of Depression and Anxiety: What Are the Symptoms? How Does One Cope?

 

Following is a sample list of the seminars and workshops that PPI offers for CEU credit.

1. Existential and Psychodynamic Dimensions of the Psychology of Religion - (10 CEUs)

2. Therapeutic Dimensions of the Psychology of Religion - (10 CEUs)

3. Telling Our Stories: Use of Narrative Theory and Music in the Clinical Setting – (5 CEUs)

4. My Religion, My Family, Myself: Emotional Dimensions of Spiritual Growth – (? CEUs)

5. Professional Ethics