The Practitioner’s Dilemma: Navigating Neuroscience and Ethics

3 CEUs - may be counted Ethics

April 25th, 2025 - 12:00-3:15pm CST via Zoom

Hosted by NASW-VT, NASW-MN and NASW-TX

Presenters: Dr Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC, Charles D. Safford, LCSW and Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA

3 CEUs - may be counted as Ethics


This 3-hour ethics program will provide: important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience into clinical practice in an ethically compliant manner. We will clarify the ethical responsibilities of clinicians to remain current with emerging science in our field based upon guidelines from the codes of ethics, explore the boundaries of those responsibilities given the explosion of information emerging at present, how to ethically extend evidence-based approaches using emerging neuroscience, how to use neuroscience to avoid applying techniques and approaches not supported by emerging research, and the ethics of marketing yourself as a neuroscience-informed clinician.

This is the first program of a series of programs designed to help master’s level clinicians advance their knowledge base in the integration of neuroscience into their practice.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the guidelines for ethical compliance with requirements to remain current with emerging science as a member of your profession.
2. Define the boundaries and outer limits of what is required for current practice at each stage of a professional’s career and how they are presenting themselves as an expert in their area of practice.
3. Apply their knowledge of neuroscience and other emerging evidence knowledge to extending their skills in an ethically compliant manner.
4. Utilize emerging knowledge about debunked, outdated, and invalidated theories and practices that interfere with best practices approaches in order to help improve choice of approaches and techniques in their mental health treatment.
5. Integrate knowledge and resources into complex ethical decision making through the examination of difficult ethical dilemmas highlighting the main learning points of the program, utilizing the Ethical Decision-Making Worksheet and Models of Ethical Decision Making and applying the NASW Code of Ethics.

Please note: This is a remote webinar that will be held outside the CE Institute. Webinar access instructions, evaluations, and certificates will be communicated by NASW VT Chapter a day before the webinar. You must attend the live workshop to receive CEs associated. 

About the Presenters

Charles D. Safford, LCSW is the President and owner of yourceus.com, Inc., a company that develops and markets web-based and live continuing education training for mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis. Having graduated from the Boston University School of Social Work in 1981, Mr. Safford has served as a clinician in private practice since 1990. Mr. Safford has been developing and delivering innovative training programs since 2001, when he merged his training and therapy skills to create yourceus.com, Inc., a company that teaches and trains mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis. Working in collaborative relationships with numerous state chapters of NASW, he has been offering both live and web-based programs encompassing the best and most recent knowledge and skills in the field of mental health and has delivered dozens of programs on various aspects of ethical practice. For the past 15 years, Mr. Safford has been building a comprehensive program to bridge neuroscience and clinical practice to help clinicians around the country meet their ethical obligations to remain current with emerging areas of knowledge relevant to clinical practice.