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Boundaries
Practice Notes: The Slippery Slope to Sexual Misconduct: Be Informed, Be AwarePractice Notes: Boundary ViolationsPractice Notes: Shattered Trust – The Sexual Abuse of ClientsTouchpoints of Trust: Setting Boundaries and Navigating ConsentThe Slippery Slope to Shattered TrustShattered Trust: Strategies to Address the Sexual Abuse of ClientsBoundary Considerations in Clinical PracticeSexual Abuse Prevention Program
Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice
Competent Practice
Practice Notes: “But How Do I know If I’m Competent” – Issues to ConsiderPractice Notes: Standardized Measures – Am I Qualified to Use Them?Practice Notes: The Standards of Practice and the Continuing Competence Program – What is Their Relationship?A Closer Look at CompetenceMobile Crisis Rapid Response Team-Hamilton Region: A Collaborative Approach towards Learning, Unlearning, and Transforming in Varying TimesEating Disorders and Mental Health: Clinical and Leadership Learnings from the Pandemic and Acute CareFrom “Living to Die” to “Dying to Live”Standards for Social Workers Communicating Post Evaluation, a Finding of Incapacity with Respect to Admission to Care Facilities or Personal Assistance Services
Conflict of Interest
Consent and Confidentiality
Privacy ToolkitPractice Notes: “Setting the Table” – Issues to Consider When Initiating Client ConversationsPractice Notes: Meeting Professional Obligations and Protecting Clients’ Privacy: Disclosure of Information Without ConsentPractice Notes: Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information without Client ConsentPractice Notes: Confidentiality and Conflict of InterestNavigating Third-Party Information Requests: What Registrants Need to KnowConsiderations for Information Custodians in Diverse Practice SettingsNavigating Confidentiality in Multidisciplinary SettingsLiving in the Grey Zone: Consent, Capacity and What Does the Law Say Anyway?
Children and Youth
Practice Guidelines for Consent and Confidentiality with Children and YouthCapacity Assessment for Children and Youth as Excerpted from the Practice Guidelines for Consent and Confidentiality with Children and YouthConsent by substitute decision-makers for incapable children as excerpted from the Practice Guidelines for Consent and Confidentiality with Children and YouthDetermining Risk and Disclosure of Information without Client Consent as Excerpted from the Practice Guidelines for Consent and Confidentiality with Children and YouthConsent to the release of client information as excerpted from the Practice Guidelines for Consent and Confidentiality with Children and Youth
Continuing Competence Program
A Commitment to Competent and Ethical Practice: The Revised CCP
Primary Documents
Documentation
Duty to Report
Electronic Practice
Practice Notes: Professional and Ethical: Communication Technology Practices and Policies for a Digital WorldPractice Notes: Communication Technology and Ethical Practice: Evolving Issues in a Changing LandscapePractice Notes: Social Media and Practice: Protecting Privacy and Professionalism in a Virtual WorldTop 6 Considerations for Virtual ServicesTop 10 Considerations for Using Communication Technology in PracticeFAQs on Cross-Jurisdictional PracticeQA On SkypePractice Notes: The Evolving Landscape of Electronic PracticePractice Notes: What Clients are Sharing with the CollegeThe Use of Artificial Intelligence in Practice #socialwork: Informal Use of Information and Communication Technology in Social Work and Social Service Work Practice
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Practice Notes: Ethical and Competent Responses to Anti-Black RacismPractice Notes: Cultural Humility: A Commitment to Lifelong LearningThe role of social service workers and social workers for families of children with autismThe Rise of Antisemitism and its Impact on Holocaust Survivors and the Jewish Community at LargeDismantling Anti-Asian RacismPreventing Violent Radicalization – Building ‘Awareness’War, climate change, and the loss of home: practice implications for social workers and social service workersIssues facing SWs/SSWs in autism, treatment modalities, family and group themes and pre/post measures used and research interventionAnti-Oppressive Practice as a Transformational ToolPathways to Practice in a Changing Social Context
Serving 2SLGBTQI+ Communities
Serving Black Communities
Racism at the FrontlinesBuilding a Health Equity Program from the Ground Up – AMANI: Mental Health & Substance Use Services for Black YouthMoving up from the Bottom of the Cliff – Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Community HealthThe Elusive Dream: Anti-Black Racism and the Search for Belonging in CanadaPractice Notes: Ethical and Competent Responses to Anti-Black Racism
Serving Indigenous Communities
Ethical Practice
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate Partner ViolenceSupporting Clients with Care and Competence Through Intimate Partner ViolenceGender Equality, Gender Equity and Gender-Based Violence: Mobilizing an Anti-Violence Movement in a PandemicRisk Assessment, Risk Management and Safety Planning for Children Living with Domestic Violence: A Critical Role for Social Workers and Social Service WorkersEngaging Men and Boys in Gender-Based Violence Prevention
Medical Assistance in Dying
Medication Practices
Parenting Plans
Privacy Toolkit
Private Practice
Webinar: Preparing for Private PracticePractice Notes: The Question of Third-Party BillingPractice Notes: Private Practice: The Cost of Doing BusinessPractice Notes: Self-Employment: Look Before You LeapTestimonials Did You KnowPractice Notes: Why you Need to put in the Time Before Private Practice2025 Educational Forum: The Greatest Risk Requires the Greatest Competence: Private Practice and Psychotherapy
Professional Misconduct Regulation
Professional Practice
Practice Notes: But “They” Told Me To! Owning Your Professional AccountabilityPractice Notes: Professional, Ethical, Qualified, Accountable: The Benefits of RegistrationPractice Notes: The Inter-professional Team – Asset or Encumbrance?Practice Notes: The Importance of Professional JudgmentPractice Notes: Incorporating Adjunct Techniques – What Are The Considerations?Practice Notes: Where Do I Stand?: Understanding the Relationship Between the College and Your EmployerPractice Notes: What’s Legislation Got to Do with It?Practice Notes: Work Stoppage: Guidelines for Members of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers Practice Notes: Clients and Client SystemsPractice Notes: Assessment and Goal Setting – Etched in Stone or Moving Target?Practice Notes: Early Endings – Addressing the Challenges of TerminationPractice Notes – Termination: Managing Clients and Moving ForwardPractice Notes: What Clients are Sharing with the CollegePractice Notes: Online Footprint — Professional Integrity Matters
Psychotherapy
Practice Guidelines for Performing the Controlled Act of PsychotherapyThe Controlled Act of Psychotherapy: Am I Qualified?Understanding Competency: A Checklist for the Controlled Act of Psychotherapy2025 Educational Forum: The Greatest Risk Requires the Greatest Competence: Private Practice and Psychotherapy
Supervision
Title Protection/ Scopes of Practice
Strategic Plan
Video Resources