Florida Mental Health CE Requirements for License Renewal Three

This is a board approved combination course including the required license renewal coursees for Florida Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors. Contains Mental Health Practice Error Vignettes and Ethics and Boundary Issues: Multiple Relationships.

Note: Psychologists need to order combination courses with the word psychology in the title.  

Mental Health Practice Error Vignettes Description:  

This is a required medical errors meets the requirements for all Florida licensed mental health professionals including psychologists and other related health fields (see CE Broker for more info). This 2 CE offering invites learners to read and consider four mental health practice error vignettes published by DHHS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.   Each vignette is followed by processing questions which the learner considers before reading the commentaries provided. Learners determine how well they perform the risk assessment and analysis function implemented as part of root cause analysis. 

1. Participants will be able to identify the type of error in each vignette.

2. Participants will be able to identify the root cause of each scenario described.

3. Participants will be able to identify safety improvements for each vignette.

CE Credits:  2

Hour One: Vignette One, Processing Questions, Vignette Two.

Hour Two: Processing Questions Vignette Three, Processing Questions.

Methods: Pre and Posttests, Study Guide, Evaluation, Q&A by email.

Purpose: To provide information error situations in mental health practice to help practitioners reduce and prevent practice missteps.

The ethical dilemma of multiple relationships continues to hold the attention of ethics commissions across all the major counseling disciplines.  This study is inclusive of the five major professions; psychology, social work, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy and addictions professionals and will acquaint the reader with the current guidelines. The study concentrates on the area of non-sexual multiple relationships and rather than discuss various specific multiple relationships. Thelearner will leave this study with an enhanced understanding of the line between crossing a boundary and violating a boundary.

1. Participants will be able to describe the shift in thinking regarding multiple relationships in clinical practice.

2. Participants will be able to differentiate between a boundary crossing and a boundary violation.

3. Participants will be able to discuss the differences in ethics codes regarding multiple relationships across five counseling professions.

4. Participants will be able to describe two classifications of multiple relationships.

5. Participants will be prepared to manage multiple relationships through evaluating assumptions, reviewing for cognitive errors and utilizing recommended steps. 

Hour One: Overview; definitions.

Hour Two: Professional codes as they pertain to multiple relationships.

Hour Three: Management of multiple relationships.

CE Credits: 3

Methods: Study Guide, Pre and Posttests, Evaluation Q&A by email.

Purpose: To provide information on ethics and boundary issues to assist practitioners in resolving ethical dilemmas.