Ethics: Necessary and Essential Information for Mental Health and Related Healthcare Professionals – Lee Anne Wichmann and Teresa Kintigh

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Ethical issues pose some of the most challenging questions mental health professionals face every day; and the questions change with each advancement in technology and each new piece of legislation – bringing a constant barrage of vexing ethical dilemmas.

This recording will help you sort out facts from fiction, ethical issues from legal issues, and their application in your practice. You will gain an understanding and an appreciation for the purpose and practice of ethical standards, and learn how to decrease your risk of being drawn into an ethical or legal issue.

The core realities of value-based and value-laden approaches to mental health care pivot on ethics. The personal values, principles, and standards of clinicians define their practices. The approaches, clinician orientations, and philosophies of clinicians must remain within ethical boundaries.

1. Explain how ethics defines mental health clinicians and affect their practice.
2. Identify methods to incorporate ethical standards with clinicians’ values, principles, and counseling philosophy.
3. Discover how to avoid ethical violations and ethical dilemmas, relational boundary misinterpretations, and power differentiation.
4. Summarize the important processes needed to protect all parties through appropriate, necessary, and ethical precautions.
5. Distinguish maintaining professional boundaries while still promoting positive clinical relationships.
6. Discuss the ethical requirement for cultural competence and social diversity and its relevance to all practices.

Ethics: Introduction and History

• Ethical Codes and Relevant Laws
• Ethics Differs from the Law
• Moral Principles
• Law, Ethics, and Practice

It’s A Unique Profession

• Vulnerable Clients
• Therapeutic Challenges
• Ethical Concerns
• Technology and Practice

Boundaries

• Crossings vs. Violations
• Cultural Competencies
• Issues of Impairment

Records

Confidentiality

• Expectations
• Principles
• Exceptions

Informed Consent

• The Essence of Informed Consent
• Checking the Validity of Consent

Ethics and Clinical Practice

• Clinicians and Interventions
• The Counseling Relationship
• Assessments, Diagnoses, and Treatment Planning
• More than One Person in Session
• Conflicts of Interest
• Dual/Multiple Relationships

Ethical Principles

Ethical Decisions