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Ethics & Boundaries: Mental Health Professionals

Tracking # 20-782992

$39.99

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Method Computer-Based Training

What you'll learn

Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  • Understand ethical principles and their relationship to the counseling profession
  • Comprehend the role of boundaries in counseling practice and the professional’s role in healthy boundary maintenance
  • Obtain an overview of the ethical codes of major counseling organizations
  • Review key points of the Florida Statutes Chapter 491 laws and rules which are in effect codified ethics
  • Learn ethical decision-making models designed for the counseling profession
  • Demonstrate the application of ethics and boundaries to practice situations common to the counseling profession
  • Identify effective ways to deal with ethical and boundary issues in order to protect clients from exploitation and harm and to enhance their psychological, emotional, physical and interpersonal well-being

Course overview

This course satisfies the requirement for six (6) continuing education hours for Social Workers, Marriage and Family Counselors and Mental Health Counselors in Ethics and Boundaries. In this course, we've used examples from the state of Florida to illustrate the various concepts surrounding Professional Ethics. While Florida serves as a reliable analogue here, each state has their own respective distinctions related to Professional Ethics.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling

Certified Master Social Worker

6h Professional Ethics and Boundary Issues

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

6h Professional Ethics and Boundary Issues

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

6h Professional Ethics and Boundary Issues

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

6h Professional Ethics and Boundary Issues

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

  1. Understand ethical principles and their relationship to the counseling profession
  2. Comprehend the role of boundaries in counseling practice and the professional’s role in healthy boundary maintenance
  3. Obtain an overview of the ethical codes of major counseling organizations
  4. Review key points of the Florida Statutes Chapter 491 laws and rules which are in effect codified ethics
  5. Learn ethical decision-making models designed for the counseling profession
  6. Demonstrate the application of ethics and boundaries to practice situations common to the counseling profession
  7. Identify effective ways to deal with ethical and boundary issues in order to protect clients from exploitation and harm and to enhance their psychological, emotional, physical and interpersonal well-being

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