Ethics for Behavioral Health and Addiction Professionals: LIVE WEBINAR

Integrating ethical practice standards with best practice strategies to achieve a collaborative therapeutic alliance will make therapy and counseling more rewarding for both clients and practitioners. Intended for Alcohol and Drug, LMFT, CPC, and LCSW interns, supervisors, and seasoned clinicians who seek collaborative engagement and enhanced outcomes with even the most challenging or unique clients. Includes best practice concepts and methods with client examples from the book, Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues: A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes by Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC, licensed in Nevada and Texas.

This workshop will reach beyond barebones ethics to describe and illustrate how the merger of ethical standards and modern-day best practices can contribute significantly to client cooperation with enhanced outcomes. Content will include clarification of mandated reporting requirements; ideas for engaging and motivating skeptical, challenging, court ordered, or coerced clients; collaborative applications to create and strengthen the client alliance, expand possibilities, and improve outcomes; insights regarding clinical model research and how to determine “what works for that client in front of you”; the importance of informed consent standards; understanding the client who does not want to be there and is reluctant to cooperate; and a blueprint for the building of a collaborative alliance with clients. Scenarios from investigations that illustrate legal and ethical breaches involving supervisors, clinicians, and interns will be read and processed. Summaries of client case studies as stories will help to illustrate “best practice” and engagement ideas that demonstrate there are no “throw away clients.”

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this presentation, participants will:

• Have knowledge of laws, regulations, and ethics in clinical practice;

• Understand best practice strategies to engage and enhance client cooperation and outcomes;

• Be familiar with mandated reporting requirements and exceptions;

• Acquire client centered tools and strategies important for successful outcomes with diverse populations

• Possess an understanding of clients who are skeptical, court ordered, or coerced to attend therapy, with examples of flexible clinical strategies to successfully engage and motivate those clients

• Have an awareness of several issues from Board of Examiners’ investigations concerning common legal and ethical breaches by interns, clinicians, and supervisors

• Have gained a clear understanding of legal and ethical duties regarding supervision and boundaries with interns.

• Have a greater awareness of clinical model research and defining what really works for that client in front of them

• Be more inclusive and aware when preparing informed consent documents;

• Recognize the importance of collaboration with clients;

• Have advanced skills in eliciting exceptions to problems and building client solutions.

Presented by: Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC

Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC, has worked for five decades as a behavioral health and addiction professional providing therapy, consultation, continuing education, college instruction, and clinical supervision in private practice and for community agencies and treatment programs. Author of Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues: A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes, a 2023 internationally published book that weaves together the stories of courageous clients and offers innovative tools that empower and motivate even the most reluctant clients to engage and identify solutions that fit for them.

Continuing Education Units: 4 CEUs

This training is approved for continuing education units by the boards listed here, as well as by the Nevada Certification Board for PRSS(-S).

*CASAT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6492. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CASAT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

*This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 4 CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

*This course applies to the following Counselor Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC: Clinical Intake and Screening, Clinical Assessment, Treatment Plan, Counseling Services, Documentation, Case Management, Discharge and Continuing Care.

*Presentation materials are not for reproduction or distribution without specific written authorization. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in our courses are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of CASAT.

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