Telehealth Certification Institute

This is a unique and first-of-its-kind presentation that expands the meaning of ethics in psychology and psychotherapy beyond “codes of ethics” and clearly differentiates it from “risk management”.  It will tie it to the heart of ethics, which differentiates right vs. wrong and good vs. bad.  

This one-hour course identifies nine ethical-moral junctions that mental health practitioners may face in their line of work.  Each of the topics will include a short presentation that helps participants understand the complexities involved in each junction.

The 9 junctions include:

• Protect suicidal client or protect therapist
• Therapist’s quandary: To lie or not to lie to a client
• Give a clinically correct DSM DX or a false DX that serves the therapist and/or client
• Clinical Effectiveness vs. Risk Management: Managing Boundaries
• Digital Immigrants Therapists vs. Digital Natives Clients
• Oppose or support for minor’s gender transition?
• Oppose or help women patients seeking abortions in states that ban it?
• Recommending potentially helpful but Illegal psychedelics to patients?
• Context: Is it ethical or unethical for therapists to be naked w/ clients?

This course was recorded on July 21, 2023

Ofer Zur, Ph.D., is the founder of the Zur Institute. He is a licensed psychologist, instructor, forensic and ethics consultant, and expert witness in private psychotherapy practice in Sebastopol, CA. His writing and teaching in the US and abroad focus on ethics, critical thinking, boundaries, dual relationships, managed-care-free private practices, victims, psychology of war, and psychology of gender. For many years he taught at graduate schools, such as the CSPP (Alameda, CA) and CIIS (San Francisco, CA). His books include Dual Relationships and Psychotherapy (2002, co-edited with Arnold Lazarus) and HIPAA Compliance Kit (2003, Revised 2016, 2018). His book, Boundaries In Psychotherapy, was published in 2007 by APA Books. His latest book (2017) is Multiple Relationships in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Unavoidable, Common and Mandatory Dual Relations in Therapy, published by Routledge.

Credit Hours: 

This course does not provide continuing education credit hours, just great content.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

To receive your certificate of attendance you must complete the course in its entirety.

Online courses are completed by registering, logging in, navigating to your course using the menu (My Courses – the Course Title), completing all of the modules, completing the course evaluation.

Psychologists and other professionals seeking CE credit through our approval with the American Psychological Association are asked, but not required, to complete the course evaluation before obtaining their certificate of attendance.

You can receive your certificate of attendance by logging onto this website, navigating to the course using the menu (My Courses – the Course Title), scroll to the bottom of your course, and click on your certificate to either download it or print it.

Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

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Cancellation Policy

Refunds are offered within the first 30 days for courses which have not been completed.  There is a 10% service fee for refunds.

Grievance Policy

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This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching methods for this course include recorded lecture video and a course evaluation.  The course may include required reading.

This program was recorded on July 21, 2023

You have six months to access online courses from the time of purchase.