Legal and Ethical Issues Involved when Supporting System Involved Youth

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW

Training Description

There are numerous legal and ethical issues specific to working with system involved youth in community-based organizations and school settings. They include consent to privacy; use of electronics to dual relationships; minor consent for mental health treatment; mandatory reporting laws; and foster youth’s rights to reproductive health services and information. Through case vignettes, discussions and lecture, participants will explore the intricacies of these issues.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand when and who can consent for minor’s mental health treatment and when working with system involved youth;

2. Explain foster youth’s rights to reproductive health care;

3. Explain how to maintain client privacy while using technology in work with system involved youth;

4. Determine when they are required to make mandatory reports;

5. Explain who to contact when making at least two types of mandatory reports and at least two ways to make mandatory reports;

6. Describe how to determine at least two times when it is considered inappropriate to have dual relationships when working with system involved youth;

Agenda 

9:30am-9:45am Overview of Course and Introductions

9:45am-11:00am Consent for treatment

11:00am-11:15am Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

11:15am-12:30pm Privacy issues

12:30pm-1:00pm Lunch (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:00pm-2:30pm Mandatory reporting

2:30pm-2:45pm Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

2:45pm-4:00pm Dual relationships

4:00pm-4:30pm Foster youth’s rights to reproductive health services and information

4:30pm Adjourn

Meet Our Trainer

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is a clinical social worker who has worked in HMOs, public agencies, and private practice as both a mental-health provider and a supervisor for more than thirty years. She has taught courses in clinical supervision, law and ethics, diagnoses, childhood psychopathology, vicarious traumatization, trauma informed care and energy psychology at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies. She provides consultation and supervision to agencies and maintains a private practice.

This course meets the qualifications for (6.0) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.