Back to Courses

Florida Mental Health CE Requirements for License Renewal One

Earn 2 CE credits on Florida behavioral health ethics.

Have you already taken this course? Try Florida MH CE Requirements TWO!!!

This 5 CE combination course contains two educational requirements (medical errors and ethics and boundary issues) for individuals who are renewing licensure as a marriage and family therapist, social worker or mental health counselor in the state of Florida. This combination package is approved by the licensure board. Program Services updates licensee credit record at CE Broker.

Approved for F.S> 491 Florida Mental Health Professionals.  State-specific courses are generally not applicable to other states.

Developed by: Karen Albig Smith, LMFT, LCAS, MAC, CAP, SAP, SAE

Revised 2024

 

Combination Course One Overview:  This is a board approved combination course meeting Florida license renewal CE requirements for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Combo one contains Behavioral Health Practice Errors and Ethics and Boundary Issues: Ethical Decision Making.

CE Broker#:  20-128630 

Behavioral Health Practice Errors Description: This 2-hour medical errors class provides information on root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention and patient safety in behavioral healthcare practice.  The course will include factors that contribute to the occurrence of behavioral healthcare practice errors, how to recognize at-risk situations, protocol to improve patient outcome, reporting responsibilities, and patient safety. Patient rights and other public education concerns will be addressed.

Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to list the most common practice errors/situations in behavioral healthcare.
2. Participants will be able to discuss the causes for these practice errors.
3. Participants will be able to identify safeguards for avoiding medication errors with patients on psychotropic medications.
4. Participants will be able to implement patient education and safety planning.
5. Participants will be able to describe reporting and documentation responsibilities in the event of practice errors.

CE Credits: 2 (NBCC Hours - 2)

Agenda:
Hour One: Overview of purpose, Root-cause analysis: Common errors and causes/situations.
Hour Two: Using patient outcome information to improve patient care, Patient education and safety planning, Reporting and documentation.

Methods: Pre-test, study guide, posttest and evaluation, internet sources via URLs, Q&A by email.

Purpose: To provide practitioners information about reducing practice errors.

Ethics and Boundary Issues: Ethical Decision Making Description: The purpose of this study is to acquaint practitioners with decision-making steps for evaluating ethical dilemmas. The course discusses the principles underlying all codes of ethical conduct in the behavioral health professions. Distinctions are made between terms as they pertain to ethics. Several models for making decisions in ethical dilemmas are presented and discussed.

Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to define ethics.
2. Participants will be able to identify five sources of ethical standards.
3. Participants will be able to identify four areas of common unethical behavior.
4. Participants will be able to discuss ten barriers to ethical decision making.
5. Participants will be able to describe and utilize five decision-making models for resolving ethical dilemmas.
6. Participants will be able to list nine common excuses for unethical behavior.

CE Credits: 3 (NBCC Hours - 3)

Agenda:
Hour One: Definitions and principles informing counseling ethics, Five sources of ethical standards, Four areas of common unethical behavior.
Hour Two: Ten barriers to ethical decision making, Decision-making models.
Hour Three: Decision-making models, Excuses for unethical behavior.

Methods: Pre-test, study guide, posttest and evaluation, internet sources via URLs, Q&A by email.

Purpose: To provide licensed professionals with decision-making models for use in resolving ethical dilemmas.

Target audience: Social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, registered interns and provisional licensees in these professions.

Click here to view a list of approvals for this course

Online Course

CE Broker#:
20-128630
CE Credits:
5 (NBCC Hours - 5)
Price:
$50.00

Filed under the following topics: