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Law and Ethics: Let Your Disclosure, Documentation, and Record keeping Work for You

  • 05/22/2024
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (PDT)
  • Live Synchronous Zoom Event

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  • For Members Only
  • This is for members of other Mental Health Counseling Chapters chartered through AMHCA.

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Description:

Documentation and record keeping are your opportunities to memorialize and explain events as they occur in real time. Documentation can demonstrate your knowledge of best practices, professionalism, and diligent attention to client care.

Documentation requires skill and understanding of requirements as well as options that maybe available to you. In this interactive three-hour webinar, attendees will learn legal and ethical standards, in addition to other important factors that can aRect how you work with clients. We will discuss ways to optimize your disclosure, documentation, and record keeping so they will work for you rather than against you. We will discuss ways for you to do the work you love and stay safe as you do it!

This course is intended to meet Law and Ethics CEU requirements.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

  • understand the difference between disclosure and informed consent.

  • identify three functions of the disclosure statement.

  • understand three ways session notes serve both client and provider.

About the Presenter:

FRANCES SCHOPICK, JD, MSW, is a Washington licensed attorney with an extensive background in Social Work and Psychology. Prior to becoming an attorney, she was a therapist and later a psychiatric researcher on the faculties of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She also worked in family practice with toddlers, children, teens, and adults in individual, group, and family constellations of all sorts.  

Currently an attorney with clients throughout the State of Washington, Fran’s legal practice focuses on representing healthcare licensees who are under investigation by the WA State Department of Health (DOH). She also consults to healthcare providers for ethics, best practices, and risk management issues. Her background gives her unique insight to understand complexities of practice, and the need to timely address ruptures that may otherwise escalate. Her goal is to help you do the work you love and stay safe as you do it!  

Fran completed her education at Barnard College at Columbia University (AB), Hunter College School of Social Work (MSW), both in NYC, and the University of New Hampshire School of Law (JD), in Concord, NH.  

To learn more about Fran, feel free to visit www.francesschopick.com   

WMHCA Cancellation Policy: To receive a refund, less a $15 cancellation fee, cancellations must be made by contacting sara@wmhca.org at least 48 hours prior to workshop date. There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the workshop date. Please make sure you have the link 24 hours prior to the event starting.  


This course is approved for 3 CE hours for LMHCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, and all  associate-level licensees in Washington State.


Washington Mental Health Association (WMHCA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 2079. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. WMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.


3 NBCC clock hours will be awarded at the conclusion of the course.

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