You will be able to

• Describe the supervisor's ethical and legal obligations, including liability
• Adapt supervision to beginning, intermediate and advanced supervisees
• Move among teacher, counselor and consultant roles using the Discrimination Model
• Run live observation and recording review with consent and HIPAA-compliant handling
• Work through ethical dilemmas, duty to warn and scope of practice
• Give low-defensiveness feedback (SBI, Pendleton) and run a structured remediation plan
• Lead crisis response and post-crisis debriefing
• Broach identity and power differences and model cultural humility

For

LMSWs and LCSWs who supervise or plan to supervise pre-licensed clinicians.

Assessment

Six module knowledge checks and a 20-item final assessment (70% to pass, up to 3 attempts).

You will be able to

• Organize a client's story into a biopsychosocial assessment using functional impairments and O.F.A.I.D.
• Reach a differentiated, defensible DSM-5-TR diagnosis with documented rule-outs
• Write in objective, behavioral and measurable clinical language
• Build a treatment plan and progress notes that follow the golden thread

For

LMSWs, LCSWs and other mental health practitioners.

Assessment

21-item post-test (80% to pass, up to 3 attempts).

You will be able to

• Apply New York's boundaries, dual-relationship and undue-influence standards
• Separate defensible crossings from violations with a client-welfare framework
• Apply telehealth boundary standards: jurisdiction, privacy, informal contact, platform security
• Evaluate social media and digital dual-relationship risk
• Compare how the ACA, NASW and AAMFT codes address boundaries
• Write defensible documentation and a practice-wide boundary policy

For

LMSWs, LCSWs and licensed mental health practitioners in New York State.

Assessment

Module knowledge checks and a cumulative post-test (70% to pass, up to 3 attempts).

You will be able to

• Apply DSM-5-TR criteria using symptom clustering
• Differentiate related disorders with the 4 C's and the 3D Lens
• Catch premature closure, confirmation bias and anchoring
• Use O.F.A.I.D. and standardized assessments to support a diagnosis
• Formulate justified, rule-out-supported diagnoses from case narratives

Course outline (180 minutes)

• Foundations of diagnostic thinking (40 min)
• Clustering and assessment (45 min)
• Differential diagnosis and interrupting error (45 min)
• Seven applied case scenarios (45 min)
• Assessment and evaluation (5 min)

For

LMSWs, LCSWs, counselors, MFTs, psychologists, pre-licensed clinicians and interns.

Assessment

25-item assessment (80% to pass, up to 3 attempts).