Confidence & Clinical Integrity, Module 6: Ethical Responsibility & Decision Models

Module Purpose

This module integrates traditional, feminist, and decolonial ethical decision-making frameworks into a cohesive, context-responsive model for complex clinical practice.

Ethics Credit Alignment: This module directly addresses ethical reasoning, systemic accountability, justice, power dynamics, and professional responsibility in clinical decision-making.

Learning Objectives

• Critically analyze the strengths and limitations of traditional ethical decision-making models.
• Discuss & Integrate concepts into a Hybrid EDM model with client-centered advocacy, ensuring ethical decisions account for both individual and systemic dimensions.
• Apply a Hybrid EDM model to a complex clinical vignette, demonstrating how to move through each step  while maintaining collaboration and cultural humility.

Why This Matters

Ethical dilemmas in sex-positive and relational work rarely fit neatly into linear models. Integrating multiple ethical frameworks allows clinicians to move beyond rule-based compliance toward reflective, justice-informed decisions that honor client autonomy, relational dynamics, and broader sociocultural contexts.

Continuing Education Eligibility

Texas (LPCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, Psychologists) & Oregon (LPCs & LMFTs)

This course meets the continuing education requirements for professional ethics in both Texas & Oregon. CE certificates will identify ethics content and total clock hours for license renewal documentation.

Meets Texas 50% criteria for approved providers.

• Neither board pre-approves continuing education courses. Licensees are responsible for determining whether a specific course meets board requirements for their individual license and renewal cycle.
• Check with your state licensure board for eligibility in other states.

Completion of reading and workbook activities from the handouts are required for full CE credit.

CEs will be granted within no more than two business days after submission of quiz and evaluation.

Facilitator

Stephanie “Vee” Van Fossen, LPC-S, CST, CCST

Austin, TX • Oregon Remote

Early Career Discount

A reduced registration rate is available for students and early-career professionals enrolling without the need or desire for continuing education credit. This registration option includes access to all instructional materials but does not include CE hours or certificates. And, if you happen to be an established provider who wants the education and doesn't need the credits, you're welcome to use this discount too. Just plug this code in at checkout for 25% off any course: EARLYCAREER25

Disclaimer

Although I’m a licensed clinician, this presentation is educational in nature and does not constitute therapy or a therapeutic relationship.