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Ethics for Mental Health Professionals
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$45.00 $36.00
AL15
3 hours CE
Mary Caldwell, MA
The online course “Ethics for Mental Health Professionals: Concepts and Current Developments” helps mental health professionals become more aware of the ethical dimensions of practice. Counselors and therapists deal with ethical questions in their daily lives on a regular basis, even if they don’t always stop to think intentionally about choices as ethical decision-makers. Professionals working with clients who are often fragile and vulnerable must cultivate a keen awareness of ethical issues. This online course begins by presenting a basic outline of ethical theory and explores principals which guide ethical thinking.
Learning to recognize an ethical dilemma and utilizing a simple process to sort out choices are central to this course. There are abundant examples, case studies, and scenarios to help illustrate the principles in concrete ways.
There is in-depth consideration of mental health advance directives, which are becoming increasingly available as more states create legislation providing for patients to indicate their wishes concerning treatment. There is, as well, consideration of ethical dimensions of therapy conducted via the internet. This online course offers practical and useful ways to become more intentional about ethical awareness so that the mental health professional can become more comfortable recognizing ethical dimensions of practice, and choosing their best moral response.
Learning Objectives
- develop ethical decision making skills by learning a four step process for identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas
- discover how the four step process for identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas is applied to real life situations faced by the mental health professional
- understand ethical theory as a foundation to making moral decisions and as a guide to acting on what we believe is right and wrong
- identify the four cornerstones of ethical principals underlying all decisions in medical and mental health ethics
- learn how to identify and understand ethical dilemmas faced by counselors, therapists and social workers
- develop awareness of ethical dilemmas as they occur in therapeutic practice
- identify current ethical issues raised by electronic therapy, mental health advanced directives and medical technology.
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