Law and Ethics for Mental Health Professionals

October 1, 2025
8:30am - 4:00pm 
Fee: $150

Meeting ethical and legal standards is foundational for the provision of competent mental health care. Many dimensions of these standards are clear and have remained constant over the years. Yet others continue to evolve, and mental health professionals (MHPs) routinely confront complex and ambiguous ethical and legal situations. The purpose of this course is to give MHPs an opportunity to renew and sharpen their ability to engage in knowledgeable and effective ethical decision-making, and understand and apply ethical and legal standards to challenges inherent in clinical work with children, adolescents and families. The course also has the goal of assisting participants in better managing the risks of clinical practice. This course meets and exceeds the Board of Psychology’s mandated ethics and law update requirement, and the Board of Behavioral Sciences 6 hour update requirement. This seminar will be taught at an intermediate level, and is open to LCSWs, Licensed Psychologists, MFTs, MDs, Psychiatric Nurses, LPCCs, or by consent of CHC / Instructor.  

Autism Updates: A Journey on New Findings in Genetics to Diagnostics to Disparities in Care (2-part course)

November 13 & 14, 2025
9:00am - 12:00pm 
Fee: $150

This workshop for all levels of professionals will review the clinical phenotype of autism spectrum disorder focusing on the newer research which helps understand symptomatology when diagnosis is more challenging or less understood. Will discuss autism and how it unfolds from infancy and how we can diagnose in early toddlerhood, to presentation in girls and other groups such as children born prematurely. Will discuss what makes clinicians more or less certain diagnostically and how we may have biases in our diagnostic evaluations. In addition, given the newer tools coming to the market - from AI technology to biomarker tools, we will discuss the science behind them as well as their pros and cons. Will also discuss some latest in our understanding of genetic causation.