3. Submit evaluation & post-test.
4. Print your certificate.
Course Materials:
GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
Informed Consent is one of the most basic ways by which therapists protect their clients' rights to be informed and to make decisions based on relevant information. This is the consent by a client to a proposed psychotherapeutic procedure or for participation in a research project or clinical study. It not only protects the client but also protects the clinician. In order for the consent to be informed the client must first achieve a clear understanding of the relevant facts, risks and benefits involved.
This course provides the following most basic (ready-to-use and easily personalized) forms that most therapists should have in their practice:
Office Policies & Informed Consent for Psychotherapy and Counseling
HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices
In addition, the course reviews the nuts and bolts of Informed Consent, reviews the codes of ethics on the topic and provides dozens of resources and reference links to various samples of informed consents for psychotherapy, counseling, forensic, assessment, research and other settings.
Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
Identify the components of Informed Consent.
Review the kinds of information required for a client to provide Informed Consent.
Recognize when a client has been provided with sufficient information to provide Informed Consent.
Specify situations in which Informed Consent may not be achieved.
Describe the position that their professional organizations hold regarding Informed Consent.
Course Syllabus:
Defining Informed Consent
Components of Informed Consent
Capacity to provide Informed Consent (Competency)
Clear understanding of proposed treatment or intervention, and the pros and cons associated with it
Awareness of alternatives to proposed treatment
Documentation of consent
Coming to clarity about Informed Consent
Determining whether a client is sufficiently informed
This is the consent by a client to a proposed psychotherapeutic procedure or for participation in a research project or clinical study. It not only protects the client but also protects the clinician. In order for the consent to be informed the client must first achieve a clear understanding of the relevant facts, risks and benefits involved.
