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Discuss the purpose and application of ethical standards, while decreasing risk in your practice

Explore how to make educated and objective ethical decisions

Discover how to establish and preserve ethical boundaries and avoid dual relationships

Examine the limits of confidentiality regarding legal and electronic issues

Assess the ethics of documentation and record keeping

Identify common rationalizations that lead to ethical errors

CODES, STANDARDS, AND CHALLENGES

u          How morality affects ethics

u          The intent and purpose of ethics

u          Steps to ethical decision making

u          Rationalizations that lead to judgment errors

u          Objectivity in the clinical setting

u          Opinions that can harm you

 

TREATMENT PLANS AND DOCUMENTATION

u          Assessments

u          Ethical use of the DSM and related challenges

u          Ethical progress note recording

u          Audit-proofing your records

 

CONFIDENTIALITY

u          Ethical disclosures of limits to confidentiality

u          Informed consent and disclosure

u          Discussing cases with other clinicians

u          Electronic data confidentiality

u          Release of information

u          Avoidance of misleading your clients

 

THE LAW AND COUNSELING

u          Explanation of Tarasoff

u          Duty to warn

u          Risks involved in counseling

u          When harm to self or others is evident

u          Suicidal clients and their rights

u          How to deal with subpoenas and court orders

u          How to ethically respond to complaints and investigations

u          When to seek legal counsel

 

ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY

u          Risks of e-mail, texting, tweeting

u          Social networking ethical risks: Facebook and beyond

u          Internet counseling and your ethical obligations

u          Skype

u          Electronic data systems

 

THE COUNSELING RELATIONSHIP

u          Clinician presence and influence

u          Respecting the client

u          Dealing with abandonment

u          Facilitating and receiving referrals

u          How to handle interruption

 

 

MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIPS

u          The ethics and standards regarding present and future interaction

u          Social contacts with clients

u          Dual relationships

u          What constitutes a boundary infringement/violation?

u          Sexual relationships with clients (past and present)

u          How to confront boundary issues

 

TERMINATING TREATMENT

u          Notification by the client and/or you

u          Expectation of the clinician

u          Completion of treatment goals

u          "Stuck"—the client or you?

u          Compliance with treatment

u          When money affects treatment

u          Over the "edge" with the client

u          Fired by the client—"is it really over?"

 

CLINICAL COMPETENCE—HOW TO INCREASE IT

u          Education (formal and informal)

u          Clinical supervision

u          Clinical experience

u          Advanced training for expertise

u          CEUs and their purpose

u          Licensure (value vs. purpose)

 

SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES

u          Western psychology as a basis of practice

u          Older adults

u          Children/families

u          Medically-compromised/end-of-life issues

u          Diversity/cultures

 

CLINICIAN IMPAIRMENT

u          Professional burnout

u          Ethical mandates regarding impaired clinician

 

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT STANDARDS

u          An overview of ethical and professional behavior expectations

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Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


CE information is based on 100% attendance.

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