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Managing High-Risk Clients: Protecting the Mental Health Clinician Register Now
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| Instructor: |
Federico Grosso, PhD, MFT, BCFE Click to View Biography
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| Number of CEUs: |
6
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| Book: |
Managing High-Risk Clients: Protecting the Mental Health Clinician By Federico G. Grosso, PhD, MFT, BCFE
Registrants purchase the book through the author's Website and register and pay for the Certificate of Completion through this NASW-CA online program. Once the registrant has read the book, he or she returns to this Website to take the Post-Test and print a Certificate of Completion.
Meets Online Course Requirements
While this course content is offered though a book rather than online, the BBS accepts this course as "online" because registrants take the pre-test and post-test online. If you have questions, please e-mail tbruyeva@naswca.org.
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The content for this course is a book written and published by the author. The book can be purchased at http://fgrosso.com/publications-2.aspx. See course outline for a list of topics.
This course addresses the legal, ethical, and clinical responsibilities of California mental health clinicians when facing and managing high-risk crisis issues. California law and professional ethical standards are presented, to provide clinicians with a sound foundation necessary to address these potentially devastating and, at times, lethal clinical situations. When clinicians fail to protect themselves legally, they can face damaging malpractice and/or administrative actions. The most devastating of these situations can occur when the clinician faces an accusation of contributing to the wrongful death of the client and/or others.
This course also addresses the inherent nature of high-risk issues, which is that they are impossible to predict. This course prepares clinicians for these contingencies with a systematic approach to understanding the required legal and ethical therapeutic duties, the clinical management of these issues in a reasonable and prudent fashion, and the appropriate documentation needed to protect the client, clinician, and therapeutic relationship. The book incorporates over 20 case vignettes to assist the reader in better understanding the application of the information and guidelines provided.
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| Target Audience: |
This course will be beneficial to any clinician providing psychotherapy or social services to clients who may present unpredictable danger to self and/or others. This audience includes licensed clinical social workers, associate social workers, unlicensed social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, marriage and family interns and trainees, and other clinicians providing clinical services to clients.
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This course is intended to increase and improve the registrant's abilities to:
- Apply legal, ethical, and clinical standards of care when facing and managing crisis issues.
- Understand and apply important California law and Case Law related to crisis issues.
- Apply specific and applicable ethical standards, depending on licensing, related to crisis issues.
- Understand the importance of appropriate documentation of the clinician’s assessment, diagnosis, and treatment when facing and managing crisis issues.
- Recognize inherent risk factors associated with potentially lethal high-risk behavior in crisis situations.
- Create and apply an appropriate treatment plan to manage crisis issues.
- Create and apply a preventive plan of action to help manage potential malpractice actions, if they should occur.
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Course Agenda: |
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| Copyright:
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Copyright© 2010. Revised. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing the publisher.
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