CE REQUIREMENTS

 

CE REQUIREMENTS FOR CENTER WORKSHOPS:

Continuing Education Certificates will be awarded only to participants who attend entire workshops and complete the required evaluation form. Certificates will be awarded after we have received a participant’s completed course evaluation form.

 

Zoom Interactive Workshops

We are now offering only Live Interactive Workshops, in which participants have the opportunity to make comments and ask questions.  For that reason, we sometimes need to limit the number of participants. However, we can usually repeat a workshop if there is a large demand for that topic. We will ordinarily provide digital handouts instead of using a PowerPoint presentation. These workshops are offered at an “intermediate” level and are appropriate for mental health professionals of all professions.

Although the licensing boards in some states treat these as “in person” workshops for license-renewal purposes, this is not the case in all states, so potential participants should verify this with their own licensing board.

 

Ethics Online Course Offerings

We provide continuing education (CE) courses at an “intermediate” level, appropriate for mental health service providers of all professions and at all levels of experience, including clinical students, as well as beginning, intermediate, and advanced clinicians.

Our nationally accredited courses are developed by Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Director of the Center for Ethical Practice, sometimes with co-authorship, where noted. Each course is relevant for mental health care providers of all professions, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.

 

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See links below for specific information for your licensing board.

 

CE REQUIREMENTS FOR RENEWAL OF VIRGINIA LICENSE:

CE requirements for renewal of licenses for Virginia mental health professionals are summarized below. For complete regulations of Virginia Licensing Boards (including Practice Standards) use links:

Virginia Board of Counseling
http://www.virginia.gov/counseling/counseling_laws_regs.htm

Continuing Education Requirement:
Licensed counselors must complete a minimum of 20 hours of continuing competency
for each annual licensure renewal. A minimum of two (2) of these hours shall be in courses that emphasize the ethics, standards of practice or laws governing behavioral science professions in Virginia.
Link to CE Extension Announcement by Board of Counseling

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Virginia Board of Psychology
http://www.virginia.gov/psychology/psychology_laws_regs.htm

Continuing Education Requirement:
Licensed psychologists must complete a minimum of 14 hours of board-approved continuing education courses each year for annual licensure renewal. A minimum of 1.5 of these hours shall be in courses that emphasize the ethics, standards of practice or laws governing the profession of psychology.
Link to CE Extension Announcement by Board of Psychology

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Virginia Board of Social Work
http://www.dhp.virginia.gov/social/social_laws_regs.htm

Continuing Education Requirement: 

Licensed clinical social workers shall be required to have completed a minimum of 30 contact hours of continuing education and licensed social workers shall be required to have completed a minimum of 15 contact hours of continuing education for each biennial licensure renewal. Courses or activities shall be directly related to the practice of social work or another behavioral health field. A minimum of two of those hours must pertain to ethics or the standards of practice for the behavioral health professions or to laws governing the practice of social work in Virginia.
Link to CE Extension Announcement by Board of Social Work