Florida Mental Health CE Requirements for License Renewal Two

Combination Course Description  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.  This combo contains Preventing Errors in Mental Health Counseling and Ethics and Boundary Issues:  Confidentiality.

CE Broker #: 20-127021

Preventing Errors in Mental health Practice Description:  This two CE class provides a continuing discussion form the prior class “Behavioral Health Practice Errors” on practice errors in mental health.  Practitioners can expect to learn about patient safety, root cause analysis and error reduction and prevention.  Some highlights of the class include: identifying some of the recent quality improvement research in mental health.  In addition, JCAHO patient safety goals and the National Quality Forum’s ideas about patient safety practices are summarized; several new terms which define and describe problems and solutions are introduced.   Outcomes information from recent root cause analyses will identify critical prevention information in primary problems areas for mental health practice; namely communication, uniform standards, developing a safety culture, and documentation improvements. The class concludes with an actual latent error situation that the participant is invited to evaluate. 

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

Purpose: To provide practitioners with information to reduce or prevent practice errors.

Ethics and Boundary Issues:  Confidentiality Description  This course presents a brief discussion of the ethical challenges for mental health professionals in the area of confidentiality. The study guide presents the limitations and responsibilities of the right to privacy of mental health and substance abuse patients.  Federal legislation (HIPPA and CFR 42Part Two) is also presented. This course meets the Florida content requirements for instruction in professional ethics and boundary issues. Excellent ethics course for all mental health professionals.

CE Credits: 3 (NBCC Hours - 3)

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

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to acquaint practitioners with a refresher on ethics in the area of patient rights to privacy and confidentiality

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