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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• Want to Delegate It? - Do others serve as "on call" clinicians for you? Do you use clerical staff, a billing agent, an answering service, a computer guru, etc.? Do others participate in interviewing your clients or obtaining signatures on consent forms? Do you have assistants who administer or score tests? Ethics Codes impose some…
• What Are We Not Talking About? - Some ethical issues are difficult to address, so we clinicians tend not to raise them in supervision, consultation, peer conversation, or workshops. Dr. Fisher will dare to put some of those on the table, using clinical case vignettes. Participants are invited to share any "hypothetical" case situations they choose, but…
• What If You (or Your Records) Go To Court? - Whether you provide records or testimony voluntarily or involuntarily, some important ethical standards and legal rules will apply. Things become even more complicated if you are not clear in advance about your role(s).
• What Is Your Role?Why Does It Matter? -
• What Must I “Unlearn” ? -
• What’s New?Ethical Implications of New and Amended Virginia Laws -
• Where Are We Going Astray? Why? - Which practice areas create ethical or legal difficulties for mental health professionals? Why? What pressures lead us to make poor ethical decisions? What can we do about it?
• Which Hat(s) Are You Wearing? Why Does It Matter? - What ethical obligations are specific to the hat(s) you wear? Certain basic ethical responsibilities apply across the board -- regardless of our role -- but some roles bring with them specific additional ethical obligations. This becomes even more complicated when we multiply hats.
• Who Is The Client? How Do You Decide? Whom Must You Tell? - How we conceptualize, define, and explain "client" can sometimes have wider consequences than we expect. This workshop is designed to explore some of the ethical, clinical, legal, contractual, and financial implications of how we answer the question, "Who Is The Client?"
• Working With Minors: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Pitfalls - Appropriate for any mental health professional who works with minors in any setting, this workshop will cover some of the ethical and legal basics, plus some of the complications created by Virginia statutes and court cases.
• Working With Separating & Divorcing Families - Do our Ethics Codes have anything special to say about working with families that are separating, facing divorce, or already divorced - or about working with families facing contested child custody issues? Does Virginia law have anything particular to say that affects how we work with these families, or what…
• Working With the Elderly & Their Families - Most clinicians see some elderly patients and/or work with their adult children. This workshop is appropriate for therapists and other mental health clinicians of all professions in all settings, and for clinical graduate students.
• Working With Virginia College & University Students: Ethical and Legal Issues -