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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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Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors

This educational offering has been approved by Vyne Education, LLC., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 continuing education hours. NAADAC Provider #77600, Vyne Education, LLC. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Content includes elements of one of the NAADAC 8 Counselor Skills Group. Full attendance is required to receive credit, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the NAADAC guidelines.

Counselors: This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Counselors - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a registered counselor continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 197-000144). This educational offering is offered for (6) contact hours of continuing education for counselors. Licensed counselors in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Counselors - New York: Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0027. This educational offering is acceptable for 6 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Mental Health Counselors; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Counselors - Ohio
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This educational offering is offered for six (6) clock hours of continuing education for counselors only. Licensed counselors in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Counselors - South Carolina: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This educational offering is offered for 6 continuing education hours.

Counselor - Texas: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed professional counselors through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (Provider number 2709). This course is offered for 6 clock hours.

Counselors - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Counselors - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

Marriage & Family Therapists: This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a registered marriage and family therapist continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 168-000172). This educational offering is offered for (6) contact hours of continuing education for marriage and family therapist. Licensed marriage and family therapist in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Marriage & Family Therapists - New York: Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0020. This educational offering is acceptable for 6 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Marriage and Family Therapists; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Ohio
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This educational offering is offered for six (6) clock hours of continuing education for marriage family therapists only. Licensed marriage and family therapists in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Marriage & Family Therapists - South Carolina: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This educational offering is offered for 6 continuing education hours.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider number 195). This educational offering is offered for 6 clock hours.

Marriage & Family Therapists - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

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Psychologists
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational offering offers 6 CE credits for psychologists. Full attendance is required to receive credit for psychologist, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the APA guidelines.

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Social Workers

Vyne Education, LLC. provider #1005, "formerly Cross Country Education", is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program (an approved provider since 1999, approved period 1/27/2018-1/27/2021). Vyne Education maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers will receive 6 continuing education clock hours for participating in this course. Licensed social workers should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Visit ASWB's website at www.aswb.org for more information.

Social Workers - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Administrators
Social Workers
Counselors
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychiatric Nurses
School Counselors
School Psychologists
Crisis Intervention Specialists
Case Managers
Substance Abuse Counselors
State and Federal Counselors