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1. Articulate policies for clinical practice on ethical issues such as restraints, seclusions and informed consent.
2. Utilize an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve and/or prevent ethical problems and dilemmas in your clinical practice.
3. Communicate the basic civil commitment procedures and determine the clinician’s role in each.
4. Establish ethical practices to ensure client safety, maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent when utilizing telemental health services.
5. Recognize ethical challenges for clinicians to consider when responding to subpoenas, court orders and search warrants.
6. Identify the differences between legal and therapeutic boundary issues.

Disability Services For Children And Adults

Informed Consent And Decision-Making Tools

Right To Treatment And Right To Refuse Treatment

Voluntary Services And Admissions

Court Procedures For Commitment And Placement

Particular Issues With Electronic Records And Use Of The Internet

• Electronic records and mental health treatment record keeping
• Internet and online counseling: Ethical issues
• Social media: Ethical and marketing issues

Responding to Subpoenas, Court Orders

• Subpoenas
• Testimony in Court & Depositions
• Court Orders & Search Warrants

Mandated Disclosure of Mental Health Records

Reporting Requirements

• Minors
• Vulnerable Adults
• Duty to Warn

Therapists/Patient Boundaries

• Professional Boundary Issues and the Disciplinary Process

Daniel L. Icenogle, JD, MD, is an attorney in private practice and an emergency room physician. His law practice focuses on health care law. Dr. Icenogle is a member of the Wisconsin State Bar and the Wisconsin Medical Society. He earned his BA at Northwestern University, MD at Loyola University, and JD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Icenogle is also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Fraternity; Order of the Coif; and was a note and comment editor for the International Law Journal. He is a frequent lecturer on health law topics including HIPPA, ethics, and boundary issues.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Icenogle maintains a private practice and is the medical director for North Crawford Basic EMS System and Readstown EMS Service. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Daniel Icenogle is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Wisconsin State Bar.

Save time and $10 off the price of other submission methods – purchase & take the CE test online for $19.99 USD per participant. Additional processing fees apply for other submission methods (i.e. mail, fax, etc.). Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details.

Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Ethics
This self-study course includes 5.75 hours of state specific ethics instruction. Not all boards allow ethics credit for self-study products. If ethics is not specified within your licensing board’s approval statement below, please contact your board to determine the applicability and amount of ethics allowed.

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Addiction Counselors

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Legal, Ethical and Professional Development skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.

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Counselors
This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

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Marriage & Family Therapists
This self-study activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

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Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists - Credit Expired: 5/11/2023
No CE available for this board.

Iowa Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 6.0 self-study contact hours.

Copies of the evaluation may be sent to the IBON. You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

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Psychologists
This self-study activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline and the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity. Contact us for more information on your state board or organization specific filing requirements.

Illinois Psychologists: PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 268.000102. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Social Workers
PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2020 - January 27, 2023. Social Workers completing this course receive 5.75 Ethics continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate. Format: Asynchronous distance learning. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer: **Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.
**It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.
**All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test and evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test. Or you may call our customer service department and a copy of your test/evaluation will be emailed to you. Please allow 30-45 days.

• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Risk Managers
• Addiction Professionals
• Case Managers
• Nurses