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ETH043 Ethics - Custody Evaluation (inactive)
Ethics issues regarding boundaries and custody evaluations.
Course Objective
This program provides clinicians with the opportunity to learn about:

• Balancing confidentiality with ethics
• Keeping notes
• Quality care versus self-protection
• Disclosing to managed care
• Physical ailments disclosure
• Employer’s rights to confidential information
• Disclosing information to parents
This program provides clinicians with the opportunity to learn about:
• The problem of Boundaries in custody evaluations
• The problem of Boundaries in custody evaluations
• Custody evaluations are major source of ethical complaints
• Problem arises when therapist is asked to provide opinion to court
• Advocacy versus visitation rights
• Licensing board versus malpractice
Intended Audience
Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Therapists 
Author Bio
BRANDT CAUDILL, J.D. - Brandt Caudill, an attorney, specializes in defending therapists in trouble.  He has been an attorney licensed in California since 1979..  He received his law degree from Georgetown University and his BA in psychology from Michigan State.  He has written 24 articles and 2 books: the first, coauthored with Kenneth Pope, is entitled California Law and Mental Health Professionals, published by the American Psychological Association; and his second book, with Larry Hedges, is Therapists at Risk, published by Aronson Press.
Certificates
ASWB ASWB
NBCC NBCC

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