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Law and Ethics- Finally! A Fun and Practical Course

By Stephen V. Sobel, M.D. and Frances W. Brown, LCSW, BCD

Why You Should Take This Course

You recognize that psychotherapists face ethical dilemmas on an almost daily frequency. You understand that to be an effective psychotherapist, it is essential that you understand ethics, have an ethical code that can guide you and that you stay within this code. You are aware of the perils of violating relevant laws. And you are required to take a course in Law and Ethics every two years. So, you want your law and ethics course to be fun, enjoyable and especially practical. You want it to focus upon real clinical issues that you face in your professional career. You want it to be intellectually challenged and you don’t want to be bored, like so many ethics courses can be.

Learning Objectives

By successfully completing this course you will be able to:

1. Recognize aspects of ethics and law that are important to your successful practice of psychotherapy and professional growth

2. Identify steps to maintain an appropriate relationship with a client

3. Clarify issues of sexuality within treatment

4. Understand the way clients can be taken advantage of

5. Recognize situations that lead to accusations by clients that they are being taken advantage of

6. Determine the pros and cons of bartering for services with clients

7. Identify strategies to adopt when a colleague is impaired

8. Understand your responsibility when dealing with a client who poses a potential danger to others, i.e. the “Tarasoff Decision”

9. Recognize the responsibility of the impaired psychotherapist

10. Identify strategies for dealing appropriately when clients request that you bend rules and the consequences if those rules are bent too far

11. Understand confidentiality as it currently exists within the framework of HIPAA

12. Fast track your ethical and legal personal and professional growth

What your colleagues are saying:

“I’m very impressed, very enjoyable.”

“Many useful pearls.”

“Very clinical and practical, excellent.”

“The information was useful – and relevant!!”

“Funny, informative.”