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Ethical Integrity in Mental Health: A Framework for Proactive Decision-Making
Presented by Rachel Singer, PhD
Live WebinarTue, Aug 4, 2026 at 10:00 am EDT
Course: #2353Level: Intermediate2 Hours
This course emphasizes the use of structured ethical decision-making models to reduce ambiguity and strengthen clinical judgment. Participants will explore strategies for preventing ethical errors, applying a comprehensive decision-making framework, understanding the interplay between legal and ethical considerations, and effectively managing threats to confidentiality. The training highlights practical, clinically relevant applications across individual, family, couples, and group therapy contexts. Clinicians will leave with enhanced tools for navigating complex ethical challenges in diverse treatment settings. This course was designed for an interprofessional audience.

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Ethics in Clinical Practice
Presented by Allan Barsky, JD, MSW, PhD
VideoAudio
Course: #2342Level: Introductory1 Hour
This webinar demonstrates a practical approach to integrating human rights into ethical decision-making in clinical practice. Participants will explore how rights derived from international instruments, national laws, and state regulations can guide responses to complex issues such as autonomy, access to care, discrimination, dignity, equity, and confidentiality. Through applied examples and case discussions, attendees will learn how to translate abstract rights into concrete clinical actions, strengthening both ethical reasoning and advocacy.

A Capability Approach to Ethics in Clinical Practice
Presented by Allan Barsky, JD, MSW, PhD
VideoAudio
Course: #2316Level: Introductory1 Hour
This workshop examines key concepts in the Capability Approach to ethical decision making, and how it differs from utilitarian and principle-based ethics. Participants will learn how to apply the strengths and justice-based approach to ethical issues that may arise in clinical practice.

A Risk Management Approach to Ethics in Clinical Practice
Presented by Allan Barsky, JD, MSW, PhD
Live WebinarTue, Aug 25, 2026 at 3:00 pm EDT
Course: #2340Level: Introductory1 Hour
This presentation offers a risk management approach to addressing ethical issues in clinical mental health practice. Rather than focusing solely on avoiding lawsuits or licensing complaints, the presentation emphasizes ethically sound, client-centered decision-making that protects client wellbeing, respects client rights, and supports compliance with relevant ethical standards, laws, and agency policies. Participants will explore strategies for identifying, assessing, and responding to practice risks, particularly when clinicians face competing interests, conflicting obligations, or uncertainty about the best course of action. This course was developed for an interprofessional audience.

Mistreatment in Supervision: Ethics, Clinical Impact, and Interventions
Presented by Dawn Davis, MA, LMFT, LCMFT, CGT
Live WebinarTue, Sep 8, 2026 at 3:00 pm EDT
Course: #2363Level: Intermediate1 Hour
This course examines the ethical obligations of supervisors to maintain professional conduct and prevent supervisee mistreatment. Participants will review the behavioral standards mandated while exploring the professional and personal impacts of supervisory misconduct, including its ripple effects on interprofessional collaboration. The curriculum identifies specific risk factors that contribute to mistreatment and provides practical interventions for prevention. This training equips supervisors with the tools necessary to uphold ethical integrity and foster healthy supervisory relationships. This course was designed for an interprofessional audience.

Psychedelics in Clinical Context: Harm Reduction and Ethical Decision-Making
Presented by Anne Metz, PhD, LPC-S
Live WebinarWed, Sep 30, 2026 at 12:00 pm EDT
Course: #2367Level: Introductory1 Hour
This course explores harm reduction principles and ethical considerations for clinicians whose clients disclose psychedelic use outside of therapeutic settings. Participants will develop skills to provide nonjudgmental, evidence-informed support while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and scope of practice. The curriculum addresses risk assessment, client education on safety practices, and ethical decision-making when navigating disclosures of non-clinical psychedelic use. Clinicians will gain practical frameworks for balancing client autonomy, harm reduction, and professional responsibility in these complex situations. This course was designed for an interprofessional audience.

Ethics of AI for Clinical Assessments and Documentation
Presented by Allan Barsky, JD, MSW, PhD
VideoAudio
Course: #2318Level: Advanced1 Hour
This course examines key ethical issues associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical assessment and documentation. Participants will explore challenges related to professional integrity, competence, confidentiality, and informed consent, and will learn practical strategies for ethically integrating AI tools into clinical practice.

Islamic Ethics in Mental Health Practice: Insights for Ethical and Culturally Informed Care
Presented by Allan Barsky, JD, MSW, PhD
VideoAudio
Course: #2172Level: Intermediate1 Hour
This course provides examples of how Islamic ethics can be used to inform ethical decision-making and conduct in behavioral health practice. Learn how community responsibility, holistic wellbeing, mercy, dignity, beneficence, and other Islamic principles can be integrated with duties from professional codes of ethics.

Neurodivergent Children in Two Homes: Clinical, Ethical, and Systems Considerations in Co-Parenting
Presented by Karalynn Royster, PsyD
VideoAudio
Course: #2289Level: Intermediate2 Hours
This course addresses the unique vulnerabilities of neurodivergent children navigating the complexities of two-home family systems. Participants will explore developmentally informed, neurodiversity-affirming interventions designed to support emotional regulation, attachment, and overall functioning within co-parenting dynamics, with a specific focus on high-conflict cases. The curriculum also provides strategies for clinicians to maintain professional boundaries, effectively avoiding triangulation and associated ethical pitfalls. This course equips practitioners with the specialized tools necessary to facilitate stability for neurodivergent youth across multiple environments.

Navigating High-Conflict Co-Parenting: Ethics and Strategies
Presented by Karalynn Royster, PsyD
VideoAudio
Course: #2258Level: Intermediate2 Hours
When therapy intersects with custody disputes, clinicians face heightened legal and ethical risk. This practical training clarifies the treating-therapist role versus evaluator functions; demystifies privilege, consent, and disclosures across two-home families; and provides concrete tools such as scripts, and documentation do’s/don’ts to navigate court orders, collateral requests, and high-conflict communication without drifting into forensic opinions.