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Get Over 20 Up-to-Date Best Practices to Stay
Ethical, Inclusive, and Ahead of the Curve

The therapy landscape is changing fast. New technology, shifting societal norms, and a growing focus on diversity demand new skills.

So many of the "best practices" and recommendations you learned just a few years ago are already outdated.

Don't get left behind.

This ALL-NEW ethics and cultural competency training bundle will equip you with the latest information and tools to navigate today's complex clinical world.

$1,249.93 ValueJust $199.99!

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Earn up to 23.5 CE Hours Including:

  • Up to 8.25 Ethics CE Hours
  • Up to 6.75 Cultural Competency Hours
  • Up to 8.5 BONUS CE hours

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Don't find yourself unsure, unprepared, or making mistakes that can hurt your clients and your career.

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P.S. Your tuition includes up to 23.5 total CE Hours including up to 8.25 ethics hours and up to 6.75 cultural competency hours

Ethics and Cultural Competency Training Bundle

Up-to-Date Practices and Clinical Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals

$1,249.93 ValueJust $199.99!
Earn up to 23.5 CE Hours, including Ethics and Cultural Competency hours.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

What your Ethics and Cultural Competency Training Includes




Frederic G. Reamer, PhD

Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Clinical Practice: Ethical and Risk Management Challenges

Frederic G. Reamer, PhD | Click here for information about Frederic G. Reamer
Includes up to 6.25 hours of general ethics instruction

The nature of boundary issues and dual relationships in the behavioral health professions: Code of Ethics

  • Boundary crossings and boundary violations
  • Common practitioner mistakes
  • Address practitioner impairment and warning signs
  • Prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints
  • Unethical conduct
  • Assess boundary-related risks
  • Importance of careful documentation
  • Boundaries and dual relationship case examples

Boundary issues in the digital age

  • Communicate with current/former clients online
  • Browsing for information about clients
  • Challenges related to clients searching for information about their therapists

Patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships

  • Intimate relationships
  • Emotional and dependency needs
  • Personal benefit
  • Altruism
  • Unavoidable and unanticipated circumstances

Ethical standards: Boundaries and Dual Relationships

  • Conflicts of interest
  • Unethical conduct
  • The boundaries of self-disclosure
  • Prevent impairment and boundary violations
  • Practitioner incompetence
  • Professional negligence
  • Standard of care for ethically complex cases
  • Importance of supervision
  • What healthy boundaries look like

Risk Management Strategies: Protecting Clients and Practitioners

  • Professional negligence and malpractice
  • Codes of ethics standards
  • Statutes and regulations
  • Standards of care and ethical practice
  • Ethical decision making
  • Create a strategy and common warning signs



Lisa Connors, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC

Social Justice, Ethics and Multicultural Issues for Mental Health Professionals: Clinical Strategies for Inclusivity, Empowerment and Improved Treatment Outcomes


Lisa Connors, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC | Click here for information about Lisa Connors
Includes up to 1.0 Hour of general ethics instruction and 5.0 hours of cultural competency

How Client Identity and Systemic Dynamics Impact Assessment and Treatment

  • Social class, race, ethnicity, poverty and religion
  • Gender identity and sexuality
  • Myths, oppression, stereotypes and microaggressions
  • Power dynamics of counseling that can threaten minority groups
  • How clinician’s values and biases influence therapeutic outcomes
  • Culturally competent assessment techniques
  • Research implications and limitations

Ethics and the Equal Treatment of Clients

  • Obligations to challenge social injustice
  • Respecting the inherent dignity and worth of the person
  • Valuing the importance of human relationships

Clinical Strategies: That Meet Clients Where They Are: Proven Approaches for Greater Empathy and Effectiveness

  • How to understand clients within their social and cultural environments
  • Strategies to recognize your:
    • Inherent biases
    • Histories and generational influences
  • Self-assessment – identify personal values that can influence therapeutic outcomes
  • Techniques to work with inter-generational and historical trauma
  • Crisis intervention strategies

Be a Change Agent: How to Advocate for Your Clients Individually, Communally, and Globally

  • Should clinicians hold a neutral position?
  • Strategies to reduce barriers to accessing mental health treatment
  • Overcome cultural shame surrounding mental health issues
  • Tips for working with racial stress and trauma
  • Connect clients to resources, agencies and funding
  • Intervention at the system level

Case Scenarios



Lambers Fisher, MS, MDiv, LMFT

A Shame-Free Path to Cultural Competence: Rising to the Challenge


Lambers Fisher, MS, MDiv, LMFT | Click here for information about Lambers Fisher
Includes up to 1.75 hours of cultural competency

Clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offenses in the therapeutic relationship

  • A Client-centered approach to cultural competence
  • Strategies for identifying & addressing microaggressions

Culturally significant influencing factors on treatment

  • Ethical implications of cultural competence in assessment and treatment
  • Cultural experiences therapists often misunderstand (e.g. ethnicity, diverse families, age, gender, religion)

Increasing cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions

  • Clarifying commonly misunderstood diversity language
  • Application of cultural competence on client rapport as well as advocacy

Increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures

  • Strategies for increased self-awareness and acceptance
  • Reducing barriers of shame and guilt in increasing cultural competence


Ethical Standards for Culturally Competent Practice


Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv | Click here for information about Lambers Fisher
Includes up to 1.0 Hour of general ethics instruction

  • An Attainable Goal for Ethical Cultural Competency
  • Conveying Value of Varying Cultural Identities, Expressions, & Needs
  • The Ethical Significance of Culturally Competent Language Usage
  • Practical Strategies for Reducing & Addressing Cultural Offenses
  • Research, Risks and Treatment Limitations


PLUS, when you register today, you’ll receive 3 FREE bonus sessions to meet additional CE requirements!




David Jobes, PhD, ABPP

Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence: How to Move Beyond Our Fears

David Jobes, PhD, ABPP | Click here for information about David Jobes
Includes up to 3.0 hours of suicide education

  • Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states
  • Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk
  • Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states (both face-to-face and using telehealth)
  • Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
  • Learn practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability



Melissa Westendorf, PhD, JD

Telehealth: The Top Client Considerations and Mistakes to Avoid


Melissa Westendorf, PhD, JD | Click here for information about Melissa Westendorf
Includes up to 2.5 hours of telehealth education

Screening and Suitability of the Client

  • Benefits of Telehealth Services
    • Evidenced-Based Research
    • Patient and Setting Contraindications
  • The Intake, Mental Status Exam, and Ongoing Evaluation
  • Assessment with Clients

Professional Boundary Considerations

  • For the Client
  • For the Clinician
    • Crossings versus Violations
    • Recommendations for Maintaining Professional Boundaries
  • Licensing Board Complaint Examples

Multicultural Considerations

  • Issues to Consider
  • Geography, Settings, Populations
  • Seeking Guidance

Theoretical Considerations for Telehealth

  • Evidence-Based Support
  • Which Models Transition Well

Self-Care for the Clinician

  • Ethics Application
  • Causes of Burnout
  • Warning Signs in Therapists
  • Characteristics of Effective Self-care
  • Strategies and Techniques
  • Resources



Hayden Center, PHD, LPC

Opioid Use Disorder: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About One of the Most Dangerous and Lethal Drug Epidemics in American History


Hayden Center, PHD, LPC | Click here for information about Lambers Fisher
Includes up to 3.0 hours of opioid education

The Unique Nature of Opioid Addiction

  • Distinct risks of opioid abuse
  • What neuroscience and biology reveal about opioid use
  • Brain centers – the relationship between brain centers and pain
  • The pleasure factor and the addicted brain
  • Differences from other substance use disorders
  • How chronic opioid use changes the brain

Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder

  • Signs of opioid abuse and questions to ask
  • CBT – recent studies
  • Motivational Interviewing and commitment to change
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy – confidence and coping skills
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Family counseling
  • How contingency management can be used with opioid use disorders
  • Adjunct approaches
  • Assessing and modifying treatment to ensure effectiveness
  • Research limitations and risks of psychotherapeutic approaches

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

  • Research and the latest findings
  • Methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone
  • Benefits, risks and drawbacks of MAT
  • Role of the behavioral health clinician in MAT

Ethics and Cultural Competency Training Bundle

Up-to-Date Practices and Clinical Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals

$1,249.93 ValueJust $199.99!
Earn up to 23.5 CE Hours, including Ethics and Cultural Competency hours.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

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Frequently Asked Questions

Each state has its own continuing education requirement for training in cultural competence for behavioral health professionals, social workers and other professionals. This course includes a comprehensive overview of cultural competency, but it is important that you verify with your specific licensing board or professional organization to ensure it covers the required topics.

Each state has its own continuing education requirement for training in ethics for behavioral health professionals, social workers and other professionals. This course includes a comprehensive overview of ethics, but it is important that you verify with your specific licensing board or professional organization to ensure it covers the required topics.

You can earn over 23 total CE hours in this convenient bundle that hits several essential topics required by many state licensing boards for social workers, counselors, and other professionals to renew their licenses:
  • Up to 8.25 hours on ethics
  • Up to 6.75 hours on cultural competency
  • Up to 3 hours on suicide
  • Up to 3 hours on opioids
  • Up to 2.5 hours on telehealth

Whether you're a social worker, counselor, marriage & family therapist, or psychologist, this course offers comprehensive guidance and CE credits tailored to your needs and to meet many states requirements.

While we make every effort to ensure that our courses meet the CE requirements of various licensing boards, it's ultimately your responsibility to confirm acceptance with your specific licensing board or professional organization. We recommend checking their guidelines or contacting them directly for confirmation.

Yes, upon successful completion of each course included in the bundle, you'll receive a certificate of completion. Just complete the post-test and evaluation.

These courses are pre-recorded and delivered in an on-demand format, allowing you to access the content at your convenience and study at your own pace.

Ethics and Cultural Competency Training Bundle

Up-to-Date Practices and Clinical Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals
$1,249.93 ValueJust $199.99!
Earn up to 23.5 CE Hours, including Ethics and Cultural Competency hours.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
The Next Steps in Ethics and Cultural Competency


Watch your email for your order confirmation and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials — all designed to help you effectively integrate the ethics and cultural competency into your practice and your life. Click here for course objectives and outline.

Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on your phone or tablet. Choose video or audio-only versions of online courses from the world's best instructors, and complete your CE requirements anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.

Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of clinicians all focused on integrating the ethical and culturally competent care into practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.

Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 23.5 CE hours! Click here for Credit details and credit details specific to your profession.


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