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Ethical Issues & Clinical Errors in Counseling - How to Identify, Address & Prevent Them

Welcome to CEU By Net's online Ethics courses for behavioral health counselors nationwide.

Our Ethics courses expand your knowledge of contemporary ethical issues in counseling beyond the traditional areas of confidentiality and professional boundaries.

Explore ethical challenges and decisions in several counseling situations encountered in today's healthcare world—including Telehealth, Harm Reduction for HIV and OUD, Prevention of Mass Shooting in K-12 schools, rescue of Human Trafficking victims, and work with LGBTQ youth. 


ALL courses on this website are FREE to take for an entire year with CEU By Net's $49 Unlimited CEUs Plan. Take 'open book' quizzes on your own schedule. Download your certificates immediately. Get customer support seven days per week.  


Go HERE for summaries of eleven popular ethics courses.


Go HERE to See the Complete Ethics Course Catalog, and to enroll in a course 


We offer the Required 2024 Ethics Course for Texas LPCs—Just $10 or FREE with an Unlimited Subscription 


Obtain guidance in ethical solutions to contemporary counseling situations—including the ethics of Harm Reduction in syringe-exchange programs and in teaching SAFE use of opioids to overdose survivors who are not ready for abstinence. 

Learn how to ethically support adolescents and their ambivalent families in Affirmative Care for transsexual children and adolescents.

Know how to ethically provide assessment, treatment, and safety to emancipated minors who are sexually trafficked and live in the backstreets, alleys, and the house next door. 

Understand the need for a compassionate and ethical approach to discussing End of Life care with adults, children, and their parents or caregivers. 

Know how to maintain your ethical standards when working within a Managed Care Contract—where the 'Need for Treatment' is defined differently than we were taught. 

Learn consummate ethical elements in effective Clinical Supervision. Know the role of ethics in the Scope of Practice for your professional license. 

Have a clear understanding of the professional, legal and ethical risks of  taking 'short-cuts' in the assessment of children and young adolescents. 

 


 

Read a brief description of eleven Ethics courses. Click the course links to consider enrollment in the course. 

 

Course 8T - The course presents an ethical, sensitive, and culturally appropriate approach to identifying, assessing, and assisting minors and young adults who are victims of HUMAN TRAFFICKING, including necessary coordination of Behavioral Health with Law Enforcement in the prosecution of trafficking perpetrators.

The course material includes a printable comprehensive ASSESSMENT for your use with trafficking victims in your program or practice.

The course explains the Federal laws applying to the trafficking of minors vs. adults and clarifies common misunderstandings about what constitutes 'trafficking.' 

Learn approaches to the ethical assessment and therapeutic support of traumatized adolescent and young adult victims of sex trafficking, including your coordination with law enforcement in the prosecution of trafficking perpetrators.


Course 6J - Provides a clear, research-based explanation of the neurological and biochemical basis for LGBTQ identity and sexual orientation; the ethical mandate to end Conversion Therapy with LGBTQ children and adolescents; ethical approaches for your work with resistant families; and the multidisciplinary step-wise process of ethical affirmation of transgender youth. 


Course 3TMH - Explains how to implement a functional, legal, and ethical TELEHEALTH counseling program in your practice that protects your client's confidentiality, establishes contingency plans for safety, and maintains the same ethical standards of practice which apply to in-office delivery of care. This is a research-based program design, including the details of successful treatment of PTSD through telehealth.  

 

Two Courses 8K and 1K - Three HARM REDUCTION Models of Treatment for persons living with HIV and Co-Occurring SUDs and SMI. It's controversial in some states and communities, but receives strong support from SAMHSA's research of active Harm Reduction Programs. Addresses appropriate and ethical programming for this special population, in a short course (1K earning 1.75 CE credits) and in a comprehensive course (8K) awarding 8 CEUs.

 

Course 4S -  Understand the methods through which ethical constructs are taught and developed in the process of CLINICAL SUPERVISION.  Risk Management concepts and practice methods are included as they apply to your Clinical Supervision profession. 


Course 3C - The inherent legal, ethical, and professional risks associated with your performance of a biopsychosocial ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS. Learn how to protect both the client and you, as the professional.  Includes an editable assessment instrument for download which is a tool which you can modify as desired for use in your practice.


2024 Updated Course 2G - This Ethics Course FOR TEXAS LPCs focuses upon the Rules of Practice for LPCs in Texas. 

A special feature of this course - that applies to all behavioral health licenses - includes Understanding  'Scope of Practice' and 'Prevailing Standards of Care.' You can read it for FREE even if you don't take the course.  

 

Course 2D - Learn about the approach to ethical counseling support of a client's END OF LIFE CARE decisions.  This course utilizes research-based knowledge of patient and family preferences for multiple terminal conditions including AIDS, terminal illness in children and the elderly, and other life-threatening conditions.  

 

Ethics Course 4B_Rights of Persons Living with Serious Mental Illness and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders - Our Ethical and Practical Responsibilities.  Sponsored by CEU By Net, this course is authored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), published as the 11th Edition of the Public Policy Platform. The platform addresses the ETHICAL and PRACTICAL responsibilities of behavior heath professionals in working with individuals living with serious mental illness including dual diagnosis SUDs. 

 

Managed Care - Is It Ethical?  Can you, as a conscientious treatment provider, ethically work in coordination with an HMO or other MANAGED HEALTHCARE PLAN?  Where they make the decisions about what kind of care you can offer your clients, and for how long - if you want to be paid?

 

 

 

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