Ethical Practice with Special Populations (3 hours)

Categories: Ethics
Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify ethical issues specific to working with special populations, including adolescents, clients with co-occurring disorders, culturally diverse clients, and criminal justice clients.
• Apply ethical decision-making frameworks to resolve dilemmas that arise when treating clients from special populations.
• Analyze how the principles of autonomy, confidentiality, and client welfare create competing obligations when working with adolescent clients.
• Describe the ethical considerations of professional competence when treating clients with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.
• Explain how counselor self-awareness and personal values influence ethical practice with culturally diverse and criminal justice populations.
• Assess one’s own ethical preparedness for working with special populations through self-inventory and reflective practice exercises.

Charlotte Chapman

Charlotte Chapman

M.S., MAC, CAC, LPC

Charlotte Chapman has been in the addictions field for thirty years. She has practiced as a counselor, supervisor and program director. Charlotte has been teaching ethics for the past twenty years. She has published articles and courses on ethics for addiction professionals and has served on state and national certification boards and ethics committees. She was a Center for Substance Abuse Treatment field reviewer for the recently released TIP52: Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Abuse Counselor. Charlotte is a licensed professional counselor, a licensed substance abuse treatment provider, a certified Masters Addictions Counselor (MAC) and a certified clinical supervisor in Virginia. She is currently the director of counseling services at the University of Virginia's Women's Center where she teaches and supervises graduate counseling students. More information is available at www.chapmantraining.com.

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CEU Matrix is approved by the following national and state accreditation boards:

Provider #6310
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CEU Matrix is approved with the following state boards:

Arkansas (ASACB), California (CCAPP #OS-07-394-0222), California (CADTP #250), Connecticut (#0115-5202), Delaware (DCB #37), Florida (FCB #5141-A), Georgia (ADACBGA #2026-4-003), Illinois (IAODAPCA #19345), Kentucky, Louisiana (LA ADRA #E026), Michigan (MCBAP), Missouri (Missouri CB #183), New Mexico (NMCBBHP #2046), North Carolina (NCSAPPB), Ohio (OCDP #50-19236), Oklahoma (OBLADS #20260153), Texas (TCB #1758-07)

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