Course Description:
Gain practical frameworks and case-based strategies in this course designed for LCSWs, LMFTs, and LPCCs who are Clinical Supervisors. Learn to navigate confidentiality, mandated reporting, dual relationships, informed consent, supervisee competence, and documentation standards with confidence.
Strengthen your clinical supervision practice while reducing liability and protecting your license through clear, actionable guidance.
✔ Greater confidence managing ethical dilemmas
✔ Stronger risk-management strategies
✔ Clearer understanding of supervisory liability
✔ Practical supervision tools (supervision contract guidelines, supervision note template, supervisee evaluation form, and remediation plan template)
✔ Increased competence in handling documentation and confidentiality issues
✔ Actionable strategies immediately applicable to supervision practice.
Learning Objectives
Participants in this course will be able to:
- Describe key ethical standards for clinical supervision outlined in professional codes of ethics.
- Apply ethical decision-making models to analyze complex ethical dilemmas that arise in clinical supervision.
- Explain the ethical responsibilities of clinical supervisors related to competence, including evaluating supervisee performance and practicing within areas of professional expertise.
- Identify legal and ethical requirements for confidentiality in clinical supervision, including client consent and limits of confidentiality.
- Recognize ethical risks associated with dual or multiple relationships in supervision and identify strategies to maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
- Differentiate between direct and vicarious liability in clinical supervision and describe strategies supervisors can use to reduce legal risk.
Course Curriculum
Who Should Take this Course:
This Law and Ethics Course for Clinical Supervisors is perfect for beginning to advanced clinical supervisors, this training provides practical tools to strengthen ethical decision-making, supervision best practices, and legal compliance so you can supervise with confidence and reduce liability.
C.E. Credit:
6 Law & Ethics Continuing Education Credits
Course Delivery: Recorded Asynchronous Distance Learning
This recorded asynchronous distance learning course, written by licensed clinical social worker Sharon Greene, LCSW, combines expert knowledge with cutting-edge AI technology.
COURSE CREATED: 4/1/2026
Policies and Procedures
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:
Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion after finishing the course and passing the posttest with a score of 80% or higher (up to three attempts allowed). After the posttest you must complete the course evaluation—located in the final section—your certificate is issued immediately and appears on screen. Please download and/or print a copy for your records.
ACCESS TO COURSE:
You will have access to the course for two years from purchase date.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Contact us prior to utilizing your course to receive tuition refund less a $10 cancellation fee.
GRIEVANCE POLICY:
Contact us if you have any grievance, your satisfaction is our goal.
ADA NEEDS:
Contact us to accommodate your ADA needs.
CONTACT US:
Sharon Greene, LCSW & Associates / Mental Health CE Hub
Email: mentalhealthcehub@gmail.com
Phone: 424-234-3691
Meet Your Instructor
Sharon Greene, LCSW is a nationally recognized expert in clinical supervision, law and ethics, and continuing education for mental health professionals, with over 20 years of experience.
- Training Director, Providence Saint John’s Child & Family Development Center
- Adjunct Faculty: UCLA, USC, CSUN (Graduate Schools of Social Work)
- CE Trainer for PESI, Therapist Development Center, Professional Psych Seminars, LA County Office of Education and other organizations
- National trainer in competency-based clinical supervision
Her courses are known for being practical, engaging, and immediately applicable to real-world supervision.
Sharon Greene, LCSW & Associates, Provider #295, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/4/2026-9/4/2029. Social workers completing this course receive 6 hours clinical CE credits.
Note: California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) accepts ASWB ACE program courses for continuing education credits.
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