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Expand Your Practice: 7 Family Court-Related Roles to Consider

Virtual
2.75 CE Hours
General
Free

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Location

  • On Demand
    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

American families are constantly morphing, and most will have contact with the Family Court system at some time. Mental health professionals can offer their expertise to help families cope with changes with minimal trauma. This rewarding interdisciplinary work allows us to serve families in transition have a more humane experience in the legal system.

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal:

Participants are expected to gain confidence and competence in serving meaningful roles that serve clients and patients in court-related settings. Participants will gain insight into those roles and be prepared to occupy them when called upon to serve.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify 7 distinct roles that mental health professionals can play in Family Court-related work
  2. Explain at least 2 specific duties and boundaries of each of these roles
  3. Describe the relevant training for each role
Introductory
General
Social Worker

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Social Workers: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE,  NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY 

  • WV accepts ASWB ACE unless activity is live in West Virginia, then an application is required.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Counselors: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MO, ND, NE, NM, NH, NV, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

AL/Counselors: Activities not providing NBCC approval may be approved by the Board for individual licensees upon receipt of acceptable documentation prior to the activity.  Please send course details to your licensing board for approval BEFORE the event.  No approvals afterward by the board.

MI: No CE requirement

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NC, NE, NH, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

MA / MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review. 

MI: No CE requirement

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Addictions Professionals: AK, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, ND, NM, NV, OK, OR, SC, WA, WI, WV, WY

Marriage & Family Therapist

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Counselor

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

The Louisiana Counseling Association is approved by the Louisiana Licensed Professional Board of Examiners to offer continuing education clock hours. This presentation has been reviewed and has been approved for 2.75 CE clock hours for Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Case Management

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Leslie Todd & Dr. Ann M. Ordway

Leslie Todd, LCSW, ACSW is the founding President of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Louisiana Chapter and has served for twenty years as a child custody evaluator, parenting coordinator and court-involved therapist, and provides trainings nationally.

Ann M. Ordway, JD, PhD, NCC is the College Academic Director of Counseling for the University of Phoenix. Prior to entering the counseling world, Dr. Ordway was a family law attorney in New Jersey for many years. Her practice focused on high conflict divorce, domestic violence and child protective services matters. She is a trained mediator and parenting coordinator. Ann is a counselor educator. Her research, presentations and publication have been focused on court-involved work for counselors and mental health professionals, law and ethics, and multicultural awareness. She’s actively involved with American Counseling Association, the Association for Creativity and Counseling, the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, as well as the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, with membership in the Arizona and Louisiana chapters. She is the current president of the Arizona counseling Association. Ann lives in Gilbert Arizona with her husband, the two youngest of her nine children, and a golden retriever named Holly.

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