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The Practitioner’s Dilemma: Navigating Neuroscience and Ethics 

Please note: This is a remote webinar that will be held outside the CE Institute. Webinar access instructions, evaluations, and certificates will be communicated by NASW VT Chapter a day before the webinar. You must attend the live workshop to receive CEs associated. 

This program has been approved for 3.0 Continuing Education hours in Ethics for licensure. NASW VT Authorization 
NASW Vermont Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0683. 


This 3-hour ethics program will provide: important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience into clinical practice in an ethically compliant manner. We will clarify the ethical responsibilities of clinicians to remain current with emerging science in our field based upon guidelines from the codes of ethics, explore the boundaries of those responsibilities given the explosion of information emerging at present, how to ethically extend evidence-based approaches using emerging neuroscience, how to use neuroscience to avoid applying techniques and approaches not supported by emerging research, and the ethics of marketing yourself as a neuroscience-informed clinician.

This is the first program of a series of programs designed to help master’s level clinicians advance their knowledge base in the integration of neuroscience into their practice.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the guidelines for ethical compliance with requirements to remain current with emerging science as a member of your profession.
2. Define the boundaries and outer limits of what is required for current practice at each stage of a professional’s career and how they are presenting themselves as an expert in their area of practice.
3. Apply their knowledge of neuroscience and other emerging evidence knowledge to extending their skills in an ethically compliant manner.
4. Utilize emerging knowledge about debunked, outdated, and invalidated theories and practices that interfere with best practices approaches in order to help improve choice of approaches and techniques in their mental health treatment.
5. Integrate knowledge and resources into complex ethical decision making through the examination of difficult ethical dilemmas highlighting the main learning points of the program, utilizing the Ethical Decision-Making Worksheet and Models of Ethical Decision Making and applying the NASW Code of Ethics.