Foster Care Training

Training Summary: Meeting ethical and legal standards is foundational for the provision of competent mental health care. Many dimensions of these standards are clear and have remained constant over the years. Yet others continue to evolve, and mental health professionals (MHPs) routinely confront complex and ambiguous ethical and legal situations. The purpose of this course is to give MHPs an opportunity to renew and sharpen their ability to engage in knowledgeable and effective ethical decision-making, and understand and apply ethical and legal standards to challenges inherent in clinical work with children, adolescents and families. The course also has the goal of assisting participants in better managing the risks of clinical practice. This course meets and exceeds the Board of Psychology’s mandated ethics and law update requirement, and the Board of Behavioral Sciences 6 hour update requirement. Participants will be able to: -Name three problems with and strategies to overcome cognitive/affective decision-making errors; -Describe two elements of an ethical approach to challenging racism and oppression in behavioral health practice; -Summarize three developments in limitations on confidentiality in California; -Identify three aspects of local and distant telehealth services in a multicultural context during and after COVID-19; -Differentiate two elements of continuing or returning to in-person care in during and after COVID-19; -Identify two approaches to reduce ethical issues with high conflict families.