Ethics violations: the jump scare none of us want in our professional storyline.
Let’s take the fear out of ethics. Our goal is to help you become ethically strong, confident, and protected for both yourself and your clients. Here, you’ll find simple, practical ways to understand your ethical obligations, document your decisions, and approach tough situations with clarity and care.
Ethics in Action
Ethics in Action: Documentation and Decision-Making Guide
Inside the guide:
A visual flowchart for working through ethical dilemmas step by step
A documentation template to record your reasoning, consultations, and actions
Guidance to strengthen ethical decision-making and accountability
How it helps you:
Saves you from uncertainty when navigating ethical gray areas
Reduces risk by helping you document clearly and consistently
Builds confidence in handling ethical challenges and supervision discussions
A clear, practical tool for handling ethical dilemmas with confidence. Includes a visual flowchart and documentation template to guide your process. Perfect for new clinicians, supervisors, or anyone who wants a quick, reliable reminder when navigating ethical decisions.
Supervisor Resource
As a clinician, you take precautions to document in case you get audited, provide legal protection and provide quality care. As a supervisor, it is equally important to take the same precautions. The Supervisor Documentation package can help you do that. We created several forms that we use to maintain records, make documenting each supervision easy and provide checklist so you don’t forget the essentials of providing high quality supervision.
In the package, you will find:
Supervision Form - Google Form
Supervision Form - Fillable PDF
Supervision Intake - Fillable PDF
Ethical Dilemma Tree
Supervision Checklist
The supervision form enables both supervisor and supervisee to keep track of supervision sessions, structure each supervision, and provide a thoughtful template for the supervisee to consider what they need from each supervision. As supervisor, you’ll easily be able to document ethical dilemmas and safety risks, as well as any recommendations made to the supervisee.
The supervision checklist is a reminder of all of the steps to take at the beginning and throughout the supervisory relationship so you don’t forget the important stuff. And forget searching for all of the information you collect in emails and files. The Supervision Intake form holds important info all in one place like malpractice information, hours needed, and goals of supervision.
And do you wonder how your supervisee is working through ethical dilemmas? Provide them with the dilemma tree to give them a visual reminder of steps to take when making tough decisions and how to document.
Guided Process for Ethical Decision-Making
A simple flowchart that walks you through how to identify, analyze, and respond to ethical dilemmas with confidence and clarity.
What you’ll find on this page
Documentation Checklist to Back Up Your Decisions
A ready-to-use template that helps you record your reasoning, consultations, and actions so you can demonstrate ethical integrity and protect both you and your clients.
Preparing Ethically Sound Forms and Policies
Guidance on how to make sure your intake, consent, and practice documents align with ethical standards and clearly communicate client rights and boundaries.