Course Description:

Meets Ethics requirements. This course will inform you on ethical issues that occur in clinical work with families, including divorce, custody conflicts, and boundary clarification in working with children, adolescents, adults, seniors, and guardians. Duty to warn responsibilities will be examined as they apply to domestic violence crisis. Responsibilities and duties of the clinician and the family will be covered. (booklet)

Objectives: Participants will be:

Be familiar with the connection between values and ethics

Aware of of decision making steps and addressing ethical dilemmas

Familiar with the requirements of informed consent

Familiar with the NASW code of ethics concerning billing, fraud, honesty, conflict of interest, interruption of service privacy and confidentiality