2021 Ethics Framework for Case Managers, Rehab Counselors, Disability Managers, and Addiction Professionals (ET2021)

Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

Course Overview

PLEASE NOTE THE 2021 VERSION OF THIS COURSE FOR CCM, CRCC, and CDMS EXPIRED on 1/04/2022. THE 2022 VERSION OF THE COURSE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON 1/12/2022, AT WHICH TIME THE NEW VERSION WILL BE PLACED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT TO REPLACE THE 2021 VERSION IF IT HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED AND PASSED.”

APPROVED FOR CLCP, CVRP, MSCC, ABVE, MCBAP, CCAPP, NAADAC

Course Objectives

1. Describe the four major ethical principles and major ethical theories.


2. Present ethical considerations including veracity, fidelity, slippery slope, and double effect.


3. Explain the ethical theory of utilitarianism and benefit and burden ratio.


4. List the six steps in the ethical decision -making model and practice those six steps using the case study provided.


5. Contrast moral, ethical, and legal ideas and how they affect practice in healthcare.


6. Reference how the particular Ethical Code of Conduct guides the CRC, CDMS, CCM and Addiction Professionals in ethical dilemmas about diversity, conflict of interest, boundary issues and discrimination.


7. State the responsibility of the CDMS, CRC, CCM and Addiction Professionals in those various ethical dilemmas.


8. Discuss the implications of ethical dilemmas in social media and the dangers of those dilemmas for healthcare professionals.


9. Describe the ethical dilemmas COVID-19 has presented.

Course Outline