Texas Psychologists Continuing Education

and License Renewals

Texas Psychologists Continuing Education
Information
Psychologist licensees in the state of Texas are
required to complete a minimum of 20 hours of
professional development during each year of
licensure. The hours should be directly related to
psychology practice. There are no online CE limits if
courses are APA approved. There is an annual birth
month deadline for licensees.

From the 20 professional development hours, a minimum of three (3) hours should be in the area(s) of
ethics, Board Rules of Conduct, or professional responsibility. The Boards policy on ethics hours may be
accessed by clicking on the following link: Ethics Course Guidelines. Also, out of the 20 required hours,
another 3 hours must be in the area of cultural diversity.
Psychology
Texas Board of Examiners of Psychologists
View the Board Website or Email the Board
Phone: 512-305-7700
CE Required: 20 hours per year
Online CE Allowed: No limit
License Expiration: Birthmonth, annually
National Accreditation Accepted: APA
Notes: 3 hours in ethics, board rules of conduct or professional responsibility and 3 hours on cultural
diversity are required each renewal
Date of Info: 6/4/2015
Texas-licensed psychologists may earn all 20 hours required for renewal through online courses offered
on the psychology page of this site. Click here to view APA-approved online CEU courses.
Information obtained from the Texas Board of Examiners of Psychologists on June 4, 2015.
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to
sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains
responsibility for this program and its content.

Popular CE Courses for Psychologists

Ethics & Risk Management: Expert Tips VII
This course addresses a variety of ethics and risk
management topics in the form of 22 archived articles from
The National Psychologist and is intended for
psychotherapists of all specialties.

Achieve Success with PQRS: Mastering the Measures,

2015
This is a test only course (2 DVDs, not included). The DVDs
can be purchased from the publishers website.The Physician
Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the first step toward payfor-performance, is part of a broad initiative from the federal
government and private insurance companies aimed at
advancing health care quality and value over volume. PQRS
encourages clinicians to attend to issues such as safety,
healthy lifestyles, and improvement of care coordination.
Policy experts predict that PQRS will not be limited to
Medicare but will be required by most third party payers in
the near future. This 2-hour course will walk you through
each step of the PQRS process, providing pragmatic clinical
suggestions that will help you navigate the maze of
regulations, provide guidance for successful participation,
and ultimately improve quality of care of your patients.

The Use of Humor in Therapy

Should therapists and counselors use humor as a therapeutic
technique? If so, should they be formally trained in those
procedures before their implementation? This course will
review the risks and benefits of using humor in therapy and
the relevant historical controversies of this proposal. The
paucity of rigorous empirical research on the effectiveness of
this form of clinical intervention is exceeded only by the
absence of any training for those practitioners interested in
applying humor techniques. In this course a representative
sample of its many advocates recommendations to
incorporate humor in the practice of psychological therapies
is reviewed. Therapeutic humor is defined, the role of
therapists personal qualities is discussed, and possible
reasons for the professions past resistance to promoting
humor in therapy are described. Research perspectives for
the evaluation of humor training are presented with illustrative
examples of important empirical questions still needing to be
answered.
Unusual Paraphilias
A paraphilia involves stimulating sexual arousal in someone
by an object or fantasy that for most people is commonplace
and not sexually related, either directly or symbolically. What
you will learn in this course is that there is a clear continuum
of unusualness for paraphilias. There are some familiar ones
and there are also very many paraphilias reported in the
clinical literature which are indeed extremely unusual. This
course will include discussions of the eight standard
Paraphilic Disorders included in the DSM-5: 1) Voyeuristic
Disorder, 2) Exhibitionistic Disorder, 3) Frotteuristic Disorder,
4) Sexual Masochism Disorder, 5) Sexual Sadism Disorder,
6) Pedophilic Disorder, 7) Fetishistic Disorder, and 8)
Transvestic Disorders, as well as a number of additional
paraphilias and specific fetishes, which are generally quite
rare.

Beyond Calories & Exercise: Eliminating Self-Defeating

Behaviors
This course is a self-instructional module that walks readers
through the process of replacing their self-defeating weight
issues with healthy, positive, and productive life-style
behaviors. It moves beyond the burn more calories than you
consume concept to encompass the emotional aspects of
eating and of gaining and losing weight. Through 16 included
exercises, you will learn how to identify your self-defeating
behaviors (SDBs), analyze and understand them, and then
replace them with life-giving actions that lead to permanent
behavioral change.