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 aims to help participants manage 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. Class Objectives: (what knowledge, ideas or skills will participants explore, learn, practice, etc during the training) 1. Name three problems with and strategies to overcome cognitive/affective decision-making errors; 2. Describe two elements of an ethical approach to challenging racism and oppression in behavioral health practice; 3. Summarize three developments in limitations on confidentiality in California; 4. Identify three aspects of telehealth services in a multicultural context; 5. Identify two approaches to reduce ethical issues with high conflict families. 6. List three steps to preventing and responding to board complaints Participants will be able to: 1. Identify their outside supports on legal and ethical issues and bring curiosities and questions up 2. Utilize their new skills and knowledge by applying the updated ethical and legal standards learned during the training to their daily clinical practice.
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