April 16, 2021

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Essential Mental Health Ethics in Georgia

The 5-hour ethics program will provide important information to bring even experienced mental health clinicians up to date on important changes to laws, rules and statutes relevant for GA practitioners, as well as updates to forms and templates to support ethical compliance with these changes. Additionally, this course will address the main areas of ethical non-compliance that have led to the high number of ethical complaints to the GA Composite Board over the past several years: role and boundary violations, poor record keeping and bad practice. Finally, this program will provide guidelines for best ethical decision making processes to guide treatment decision making and establish a clear record of the ethical decision making process to increase protection from liability and practice complaint issues.

Conference cost:      $80.00 pre-registered   

By attending our workshop, you will be able to:

1. Learn main updates to laws, rules and statutes relevant to GA mental health clinicians. 
2. Understand the main ethical violations that have led to substantial numbers of ethical complaints referred to the GA Composite Board - and methods to establish protection from ethical complaints related to role and boundary violations, poor record keeping and bad practice.
3. Grasp emerging knowledge about debunked, outdated, and invalidated theories and practices that interfere with best practices approaches to mental health treatment. 
4. Know which forms and templates are necessary for best practices in clinical record keeping, which forms and templates are frequently missing, and how to apply forms provided during the training program. 
5. Integrate knowledge and resources into complex ethical decision making through the examination of difficult ethical dilemmas highlighting the main learning points of the program, utilizing the Ethical Decision Making Worksheet and Models of Ethical Decision Making. 

Conference Agenda (9:30 AM to 3:30 PM with breaks)

• 9:00 - 9:30 AM Registration and Networking
• 9:30 - 10:30 am: Updates on important laws, rules and statutes
• 10:30 - 11:30 am: Role and boundary violations in the context of 21st Century practice, with exploration of complex ethical scenarios 
• 11:30 - 11:45 pm: Break 
• 11:45 - 12:15 pm: Updates to 21st Century record keeping: forms and templates
• 12:15 - 12:45 pm: Lunch 
• 12:45 - 1:45 pm: Guidelines for 21 Century best practices and violations of best practices, including approaches, techniques, and knowledge points that have been  debunked and are no longer considered valid for best practice approaches
• 1:45 - 2:00 pm  Break
• 2:00 - 3:30 pm  Using the ethical decision making worksheet for complex ethical decision making, with scenario analysis exploring complications of operating under best practices guidelines

5 Ethics contact hours of continuing education have been approved by the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia (LPCA CE Approval #2020-10-19-199LW)

Application made for 5 Ethics hours of continuing education credit to the National Association of Social Workers- Georgia Chapter as authorized by Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapist.

Refund Policy: 

Full refunds will be issued up to 14 days prior to the conference. Cancellations received less than two weeks from the start of the conference will be refunded at 80% of the conference costs up until the day before the conference. Cancellations received after the last day before the start of the conference will not be refunded, but 50% of the paid amount may be applied towards other live or online courses from yourceus.com.