MHC 500

Professional Issues, Ethics, and Laws in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (online)

Focus on the role of the counseling profession in the variety of mental health systems, including community, state, and federal agencies, hospitals, and private-practice. Explore HIPAA and related laws, informed consent policies, internal procedures, populations served, relevant laws and state statutes, funding, and ethical considerations counselors role in the legal system, consultation, operationalizing of a practice, grants and program evaluations. Consider questions such as, where do I fit in the profession? and how does the counseling profession impose structure on the mental health system?.

Units: 3.0