Self-paced
EVENT:
You provide valuable professional counseling services to your clients. But what are your rights and responsibilities if your client is in the middle of a divorce or custody battle? If you provide counseling to a child, what if the judge wants to hear your professional opinion? What do you do if your client wants you to testify in court about testing, treatment, and confidential communications? What if your client or his/her spouse subpoenaed your records? This program is designed to help you explain the general legal rights and responsibilities of a counselor providing therapy for individuals and families, including confidentiality laws for individual and marriage counseling, religious counseling, and adolescent counseling. This program will help you apply the best practices when subpoenaed and how to produce records under a subpoena.
Program Objectives
1. Learners will be able to apply the counselor-privileged communications laws related to their practice and recognize what is considered a confidential communication.
2. Learners will be able to recognize the general family court process, commonly used terms in family law, and identify the goals that a family lawyer is seeking from the counseling professional.
3. Learners will be able to recognize the difference between lay testimony vs. expert testimony, how to qualify as an expert, how to be a court-appointed expert, and what to include in your testimony.
PRESENTER:
Mary Gurganus is a licensed attorney practicing in North Carolina and has dedicated her practice to family law. Ms. Gurganus holds the role of Managing Attorney at Triangle Divorce Lawyers. Ms. Gurganus has practiced family law for over 12 years and the attorneys in her firm have a combined total of over 75 years of practice experience. Ms. Gurganus is a litigation attorney and has been attorney of record for a substantial number of domestic and child protective services matters and brings her background, training and experience to give real world examples and valuable information to the participants of the program. Ms. Gurganus attended the North Carolina Central University School of Law, graduating with honors. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Loyola University in Maryland. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Bar Association, Wake County Bar Association, Tenth Judicial Bar, American Bar Association, and other professional groups.
PROVIDER INFORMATION:
LCCNC
605 N. Terrace Place
Morganton, NC 28655
(919) 714-9025
info@lccnc.org
www.lccnc.org