Instructions
Pretest Instructions
Pretest
Course Overview
Important Clarifications
Print Posttest Study Guide
Considerations in Creating Clinical Safety
Strategies for Preventing Injury
Legal Standards
The NASW Code of Ethics: Standard 1.03 Informed Consent
The AAMFT Code of Ethics: Standard 1.2 Informed Consent
The Four Requirements of Informed Consent
Disclosure and Documentation of the Risks and Benefits of Therapy
Sample Documentation for the Disclosure of Risks and Benefits
The NASW Code of Ethics: Standard 1.06 Conflicts of Interest
The AAMFT Code of Ethics: Standard 1—Responsibility to Clients
Strategies for Preventing Boundary Violations
This is the second module of a two-part series that explores the legal and ethical standards for creating clinical safety. Module 1 explores how to create and maintain clinical safety by complying with the standard of practice, scope of practice, scope of competence, therapeutic duty, and legal parameters of confidentiality. Module 2 explores how to create and maintain clinical safety by obtaining informed consent, avoiding conflicts of interest, safely terminating therapy, and safely managing crisis and high-risk issues, such as suicide risk and child abuse. Module 2 incorporates online content, reader exercises, case vignettes, and sample documentation.
The two-part series can be used toward the California pre-license mandated 12 hours of law and ethics coursework.
The two-part series can be used to meet the ongoing license renewal requirement of six hours of training in law and ethics for California LCSWs and LMFTs.
After completing this module, readers will be able to do the following:
