Welcoming interns and supervisees into your practice can be deeply rewarding—but it also comes with significant ethical responsibilities. Are you prepared to navigate those challenges with clarity, confidence, and compliance?
Whether you're mentoring practicum students or onboarding pre-licensed clinicians, this course will equip you with essential ethical guidance and practical strategies to support supervisees while safeguarding your practice and your clients.
Dr. Tara Sanderson, PsyD, MBA, brings her extensive experience as a clinical supervisor, private practice owner, and ethical consultant to this training. She is known for empowering new professionals and supporting clinicians in developing ethical, effective supervision practices.
In this self-paced course, Dr. Sanderson blends real-world scenarios with clear, applicable insights into ethical codes, supervision standards, and policy development. Her accessible teaching style and supervisory expertise will help you feel better equipped to mentor the next generation of behavioral health professionals.
You’ll explore ethics from multiple professional codes (ACA, APA, NASW), address complex issues like boundaries, confidentiality, and supervisee competence, and learn how to proactively create policies that protect your clients, your license, and your team. The course also covers how to model ethical behavior, respond to risks, and foster a professional, inclusive learning environment.
Key Takeaways:
Understand multiple ethics codes: Gain clarity on how professional guidelines apply to your role as a supervisor.
Develop supervision policies: Learn how to craft effective, ethical policies that protect your clients and your practice.
Identify future risks: Anticipate and address the ongoing ethical challenges that may arise when supervising others.
Why this course?
Practical and applicable: Grounded in real-world scenarios with tools you can implement right away.
Led by a trusted expert: Dr. Sanderson is a seasoned supervisor and teacher who knows how to make ethics both approachable and actionable.
Built for your schedule: This online self-study format makes it easy to earn CE credit at your own pace.
Learning Objectives:
List 4 Ethical Codes and Considerations when introducing interns and supervisees into their practice.
Construct policies to address the Ethical issues discussed in this training.
Evaluate further ethical issues that will arise while having interns and supervisees in their practice.
Ethical supervision doesn’t just happen—it’s built thoughtfully and intentionally. This course will help you lay the right foundation. We invite you to join us in strengthening your role as a supervisor and ensuring your practice thrives.
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This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.
Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
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Dr. Tara Sanderson, PsyD, MBA
Dr. Sanderson is a Licensed Psychologist in Oregon, owner of a group practice, a Clinical supervisor for Residents and Associates, an entrepreneur, course creator, podcaster and an author. As a clinician, Dr. Sanderson loves working with and talking about Anxiety, OCD, Perfectionism and burnout. As a trainer and supervisor Dr. Sanderson's heart lies in training up and empowering interns and pre-licensed folks. She teaches courses in how to start a private practice, and how to have interns in your practice and more!
Disclosure Statement: The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 1.5 ethics continuing education hours of credit.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
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