ASWB Clinical

Ethical principles and responsibilities: confidentiality and its limits (HIPAA/PHI), informed consent, ethical dilemmas, professional values · Burnout, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, self-care, and professional development · Ethical service delivery: self-determination, professional boundaries, mandatory reporting and duty to warn · Documentation, responsible billing, termination, and death and dying · Supervision and management ethics, governmental policy, electronic practice, and research ethics · Diversity and social justice: anti-oppressive and anti-racist approaches, privilege and bias, accessibility · Exploitation, truth and reconciliation, restorative practices, and immigration/refugee status

Trauma, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and crisis indicators and impact · Family and interpersonal dynamics, caregiving, placement, and displacement · Typical and atypical development, aging, and racial/cultural/spiritual development across the lifespan · Indicators of mental illness, co-occurring disorders, and addiction; use of the DSM · Biopsychosocial assessment, interviewing, mental status examination, and risk-of-harm assessment · Motivation, resilience, strengths, and assessment instruments · Treatment planning, modality selection, community resources, medications, and termination readiness

Helping relationship, strengths-based and empowerment practice, teams, end-of-life practice · Trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, and evidence-based practices (CBT, DBT, MBSR, MI, EMDR) · Skills-based techniques: emotional regulation, coping, stress and anger management, assertiveness, role play · Harm reduction, addiction intervention, advocacy, psychoeducation, and case management · Family, couples, and group work; discharge, aftercare, and service networks · Practice evaluation and research: outcomes, program evaluation, research design, quality assurance · Supervision and administration: supervision models, risk policies, organizational and fiscal management