This webinar is free and open to the public.

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”  -Potter Stewart

Mental health professionals regularly face ethical and legal challenges. In this webinar, participants will receive the most recent updated information and considerations related to ethics. The goal of this webinar is for participants to understand the purpose and practice of ethical standards to decrease future risk and learn how to avoid the most common mistakes. 

In this webinar you will: 

• Learn the common ethical mistakes made by mental health professionals and how to avoid them.
• Gain best practices for making decisions about ethical and legal matters. 
• Understand the role of clinicians regarding responsibilities related to duty to protect and duty to warn.
• Identify appropriate clinical boundaries and ways to avoid clinical mishaps.

Instructors:

Dr. Jenny Good, PsyD-Associate Professor of Psychology; Vice Chair of Psychology Programs
Dr. Vanessa Holtgrave, PsyD-Assistant Professor of Psychology

Who should attend: Social workers, psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other behavioral health professionals.

This webinar is FREE. Participants will be awarded 1 CE credit for attending this webinar.

This webinar is eligible for 1 Continuing Education (CE) Credit for recertification by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS). To earn 1 CE credit, participants must be a California residents and attend the free webinar or watch the recording. Participants must register and successfully complete a multiple-choice assessment and evaluation to receive a certificate of completion. UMass Global is recognized by the (BBS) California Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide continuing education credit per BPC Section 1887.4.3.

Please note the above webinar time is in Pacific Time