Using Your Mental Health Code of Ethics: How to Avoid Narcolepsy and Dread while Fulfilling Your Ethics Requirement

Lisa Erickson, MS, LMHC

About the workshop

Codes of Ethics are evolving, dynamic documents designed to help us navigate challenging issues that arise in our practice as mental health clinicians. In this training we will use Codes of Ethics to problem solve sample situations in a lively small group format. The instructor will review the ethical decision making process and guide the participants through a series of vignettes using the Codes of Ethics of ACA, NASW and AAMFT as guideposts. The day is designed to be lively and interactive, and meet the Washington state law and ethics requirement.

Participants will:

Learn the key elements of the ethical decision making process.
Increase skills in using the Code of Ethics as a resource.
Improve awareness of current ethical issues shaping our practice environment.

About the presenter

Lisa Erickson, MS, LMHC, has been in private practice since 1987 seeing clients and consulting with other mental health providers. She has trained and taught other clinicians for many years through her work as an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University and as a trainier around the state on topics related to addictions, ethics, giftedness, narcissism, practice development and clinical supervision. Lisa is a past president of the Seattle Counselors Association, the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association, and is a past co-chair of the Washington Department of Health Advisory Committee. To find out more about Lisa: www.lisaerickson.net.

About the particulars

Location: Quality Inn
When: May 14th, 2010
Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
Fee: $135.00 US
CEU info: 6 CEU's Cascadia Training is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, to provide continuing education units to Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Certificates of Completion are awarded to attendees at the end of each workshop. Provider number #1975-118, and is an OSPI approved provider of in-service education. This is a "Washington State Approved Clock Hour Offering Workshop."