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Build practical skills for handling state requirements around confidentiality, reporting, documentation, telehealth, boundaries, and supervision.

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📘 Course Type: Reading-based, asynchronous 

🕓 Length: 6.5 CE credits 

🎓 Level: Intermediate

💻 Format: Online, self-paced  

⭐ Price: $39

🇺🇸 State: California-specific

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SWTP CEUs is ASWB ACE Provider #2486

🌎 Accepted for CE credit across the U.S. and Canada (except New York) 

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Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

    2. What Your License Allows—and Requires

    3. Confidentiality, Privilege, and Who Gets the Record

    4. Mandated Reporting

    5. Duty to Protect and Crisis Decisions

    6. Documentation, Retention, and Telehealth

    7. Discipline, Boundaries, and Supervision

    8. Posttest

    9. Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $39.00
  • 9 lessons

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify BBS scope-of-practice, registration, advertising, and disclosure requirements governing California social work practice.

  • Apply California confidentiality, privilege, and minor-consent law to requests for client information.

  • Determine reporting obligations under CANRA and the Elder and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act. 

  • Apply Civil Code §43.92 to threat disclosures and distinguish the duty to protect from crisis-hold decisions.

  • Evaluate documentation, retention, and telehealth practices against California statutory standards.

  • Analyze boundary, dual-relationship, and supervision situations against BBS unprofessional conduct grounds.

Course Details

ACCREDITATION SWTP CEUs (provider number 2486), is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 10/24/2025 - 10/24/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6.5 clinical continuing education credits.

POSTTEST REQUIREMENTS A 20-question posttest follows the course materials. A passing score of 80% is required to receive CE credit. Retakes are available if the passing score is not met.

CERTIFICATES To earn CE credit, participants must complete the full course, achieve a passing score of 80% on the posttest, and submit the course evaluation. Certificates of completion are issued automatically upon successful completion.

ASSIGNMENTS No outside assignments are required for this course.

INSTRUCTOR SWTP CEUs Director Will Baum, LCSW, has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice and social work education. He brings both practical expertise and teaching experience to continuing education course development.

REFUND POLICY Full refunds are available for any reason if requested within 7 days of purchase and before the course is completed. To request a refund, please email [email protected]. Refunds will be processed to the original payment method within 5–7 business days.

CANCELLATION POLICY If SWTP CEUs cancels or withdraws a course for any reason, all registered learners will receive a full refund.

ACCESSIBILITY & ACCOMODATIONS SWTP CEUs is committed to ensuring full access to all learners. If you require accommodations to participate in this course, please contact us at [email protected] before or during your enrollment. We will make every reasonable effort to meet accessibility needs.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This self-paced online course can be completed on any modern computer or mobile device with reliable internet access. You will need an updated web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge recommended).

IMPORTANT NOTE The socialworktestprep.com licensure preparation program and materials associated with it were not included in the Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE) review and are not approved by ASWB for continuing education nor endorsed by ASWB in any manner.



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