Ethics, Legal, and Professional Identity
- Objectives:
- Explore ethical and legal standards in counseling
- Discuss different codes of ethics (APA, ACA, AAMFT)
- Discuss the principles supporting and informing ethical codes (i.e. beneficence)
- Identify steps in ethical decision making
- Define, identify and discuss how to deal effectively with transference and countertransference issues
- Identify stressors in the profession and burnout prevention techniques
- Clarify personal values and their effect in a counselor's work
- Discuss the role of spiritual and religious values in counseling
- Identify cultural values and assumptions in therapy
- Identify the characteristics of a multiculturally competent counselor
- Explain the purpose of informed consent
- Identify Counselor's Responsibilities in Record Keeping
- Identify ways to reduce malpractice liability
- Define and explain the conditions for maintaining confidentiality, privilege and privacy.
- Explain HIPAA regulations and what they mean to counselors
$9.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- The participant will demonstrate familiarity with what often leads to boundary breaches.
- The participant will demonstrate familiarity with the most frequently made allegations of ethics violations.
- The participant will demonstrate familiarity with examples of multiple relationships.
- The participant will demonstrate familiarity with important areas to consider regarding boundaries.
- Demonstrate familiarity with components of informed consent including HIPAA
$9.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Explore practice management issues for mental health professionals
- Define ethics in terms of attending to consumer's biopsychosocial needs
- Discuss how to individualize treatment
- List the components of SNAP to be strengths, needs, attitudes and preferences
- Identify boundary issues in small communities and recovery communities
$9.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Explore ethical and legal standards in counseling
- Explain the difference between ethical and legal guidelines
- Identify causes of ethical stress
- Discuss the Un-Ethics mantra
- Identify the areas in which professionals must be competent
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Review the philosophical ethical principles
- Explore how the following are ethical imperatives and how to fit them in
- Counseling Skills Development
- Ongoing Supervision
- Self-Care
$12.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Review the principles in etherapy ethics including enhanced informed consent and HIPAA and HITECH regulations.
- Explore issues related to boundaries, dual relationships and social networking.
$6.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Define ethical awareness
- Explore multiple case studies involving ethical issues
- Explore the connection between ethical awareness and behavior and critical thinking
- Examine 22 of the most common cognitive fallacies or mistakes that lead to breaches of ethics.
- Discuss common justifications for unethical behavior, and what can be done to prevent ethical missteps
- Define and examine the dynamics of trust, caring and power in terms of our greatest ethical dilemma
$12.00 for 30 days Objectives:
- Explore ethical guidelines with respect to
- Multiculturalism
- Confidentiality
- Informed consent
- Documentation
- Discharge vs. Abandonment
- Identify Non-Malfeasance in terms of kickbacks, blind referrals and insurance fraud
Free for 90 days- Objectives
- Identify signs and causes of burnout.
- Explore Physical, Interpersonal, Environmental, Cognitive, Emotional, Spiritual (PIECES) techniques for burnout prevention.
$6.00 for 90 days - Objectives
- Define cultural competence, presents a rationale for pursuing it, and describes the process of becoming culturally competent and responsive to client needs.
- Address the development of cultural awareness.
- Describe core competencies for counselors and other clinical staff.
- Provide guidelines for culturally responsive clinical services.
- Provide organizational strategies to promote the development and implementation of culturally responsive practices.
- Provide a general introduction to each major racial and ethnic group, providing specific cultural knowledge related to substance use and treatment.
- Explore the concept of “drug culture” and its role in substance use disorder treatment.
- Review the Florida statute on patient brokering
- Review the Florida Statute on Patient Rights
$18.00 for 90 days