Workshop Archives

Listed in alphabetical order below are some of the Interactive Workshops that have been presented in the past by The Center For Ethical Practice. If you would like us to conduct a workshop for your agency, organization, or practice group, you may want to review these topics, as well as those on the “Upcoming Workshops” page, to see which one best fits your training needs.

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• If Only I Had Known! -
• Informed Consent Revisited - This workshop for psychologists reviews the informed consent requirements in the 2002 APA Ethics Code, Virginia law, and federal HIPAA regulations. After providing a framework for integrating them, clinical vignettes illustrate how informed consent requirements might apply in different types of cases.
• Informed Consent With Couples and Families - Informed consent is a process, not a one-time event; and that process can become complicated with couples and families. We will review both ethical responsibilities and legal considerations to answer questions such as: Who must be informed? About What? When? From whom must we obtain consent? For what? When At…
• Keeping Secrets -
• Learning From Ethical Vignettes -
• Learning the “New” APA Ethics Code - This workshop for psychologists provided a detailed discussion of the changes in their Ethical Standards. Participants received copies of their new 2002 Ethics Code.
• Legislative Update - We offer this workshop whenever there are important changes in the Virginia laws and regulations that affect mental health professionals. Some years bring more important changes than others. As an example, we provide here the outline of one of our workshops about the 2008 legal changes, most of which were…
• Maintaining Ethical Practices Under Virginia’s Laws - Clinicians in every state must follow both their profession's Ethical Standards and their state's laws. How well do Virginia's laws fit together with your Ethical Standards? What ethical issues might arise for clinicians under Virginia's specific combination of laws?
• Managing Your Managed Care Contracts - Each provider contract you sign will have slightly different terms; each managed care company will have different policies and impose different limitations. We will review some implications of various written and unwritten understandings, consider their ethical implications, and use case excmples to discuss how we can avoid some of the…
• Mental Health & Violence -
• Money Matters (6 Hour Workshop) - This all-day workshop first covers ethical, legal, and personal issues that can affect business decisions, then provides a process for clarifying and expanding your own business plans. [NOTE: CE credits are provided only for the morning (ethical and legal) portions of the workshop, not for the business portions.]
• Money Matters! (3 hour workshop) -
• Multi-Client Therapy: Ethical & Legal Considerations - When providing multi-client therapy -- couple, family, or group therapy; child therapy with parent consultation; or collateal participant in an individual adult therapy -- certain ethical, legal, and/or clinical dilemmas often arise. Are you avoiding the predictable dilemmas and preparing clients for the "unpredictables"? Do you remember that "clinically interesting"…
• Multicultural Competence, Anyone? -
• Navigating the Legal Minefield: Ethical Responses to Subpoenas, Court Testimony, & Other Legal Irritants -
• Oops! What Now? Ethical Dilemmas With Difficult Patients -
• Peer Consultation:Paying Attention to the Ethical Issues -
• Planned and Unplanned Terminations - This workshop addresses questions such as these: What ethical and legal issues can arise around clinical endings? What should we consider when planning terminations? With forethought, can we avoid the ethical pitfalls that arise from unplanned terminations? What is the difference between "therapist-initiated termination" and "abandonment" ? What provisions should…
• Practical Ethics:Implementing the Ethical Decisions You Have Made -
• Professional Ethics: Two Developmental Perspectives - How have our professions' Ethical Standards changed across time? How have we reacted to those changes? How does our personal and profesasional development affect the ways we approach ethical issues or change the types of ethial dilemmas we are more likely to notice, encounter, or create?