Course Description: This 6 hour continuing education on ethics course is designed to meet the license renewal requirements for Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC-Associate, and LPC and suprvisors) in the state of Texas. It is based on open source journal articles and the NBCC Code of Ethics.

This 6-hour continuing education course explores the ethical standards guiding the practice of counseling, the complexities of clinical boundaries, and the ethical implications of influence strategies in mental health care. Through analysis of the NBCC Code of Ethics, theoretical frameworks on boundary violations, and empirical findings on informal coercion, participants will enhance their ethical decision-making, risk management, and client-centered practices.

This course is appropriate for beginning, intermediate and advanced level practitioners who require ethics content for license renewal. 

This CE course was specifically designed to meet license renewal requirements for Licensed Professional Counselors in Texas; however it may also be for marriage and family therapists in other states, since the content is NOT specific to the state of Texas.

Learning Objectives: This course will provide the practitioner with detailed information regarding ethical challenges in mental health care. Specifically, a professional will: 

• Identify strategies for identifying ethical challenges in mental health care
• Describe methods for dealing with ethical challenges
• Identify the role of influence strategies in mental health care.
• Recognize different influence strategies
• Describe what coercion is and how it is done
• Recognize the effects of coercive culture in mental health care

Citations:  Molewijk, B., Hem, M.H. & Pedersen, R. Dealing with ethical challenges: a focus group study with professionals in mental health care. BMC Med Ethics,  (2015).   /  Hem, M. H., Molewijk, B., & Pedersen, R. (2014). Ethical challenges in connection with the use of coercion: a focus group study of health care personnel in mental health care. BMC medical ethics, 15, 82.  /   Valenti, E., & Giacco, D. (2022). Persuasion or coercion? An empirical ethics analysis about the use of influence strategies in mental health community care. BMC health services research, 22(1), 1273.   /  R. Szumer R. and M. Arnold, (2023), the ethics of overlapping relationships in rural and remote healthcare. A narrative review. Bioethical Inquiry 20: 181-190.

This course content is based on a publication that has been peer-reviewed, the scientific standard for evaluating academic work. All studies and scientifically derived evidence have limitations that should be considered. If you have any questions about the accuracy or limitations of the content, please contact us at support@ce-classes.com and we will get back to you.

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