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LPCC Law and Ethics · 12 hours

California LPCC Law and Ethics Exam Prep — California Exam Prep, 12 hours

California LPCC Law and Ethics Exam Prep covers the LPCC-specific BBS examination scope, professional conduct, consent, confidentiality, supervision, records, reporting, telehealth, advertising, and discipline. Delivery, credential, and regulatory-credit eligibility are stated on the course page.

Professional training or exam-preparation material. No CE/MCLE/CPE credit hours are issued.

Course at a glance

Level
Beginner
Estimated time
12 hours
Prerequisite
No prior 101PD course is required. Check any separate exam, employer, or role eligibility before relying on this training.

Skills you will practice

  • Explain and apply §1.0 The exam frame.
  • Explain and apply §1.1 APCC disclosures and fees.
  • Explain and apply §1.2 Informed consent.
  • Explain and apply §1.3 Minors.
  • Explain and apply §1.4 Confidentiality and CMIA.

Learning objectives

  • Explain and apply §1.0 The exam frame.
  • Explain and apply §1.1 APCC disclosures and fees.
  • Explain and apply §1.2 Informed consent.
  • Explain and apply §1.3 Minors.
  • Explain and apply §1.4 Confidentiality and CMIA.

Assessment and timing

Knowledge check plus 2 final exam versions.

Passing score: 70%.

Final timing: 1 minute per question.

Hands-on practice

Applied course exercises

Use the course rules in practical scenarios and exercises drawn from the published syllabus.

  • §1.4 Confidentiality — CMIA in counseling practice
  • §1.14 Records-request workbook — ten walked calls
  • §1.22 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Reading the Stem Like a Lawyer
  • §1.23 Case File: The Anxious First-Timer
  • §1.25 Integration Case: One Client, Five Chapter-One Doctrines
  • §2.14 CANRA decision workbook — ten walked calls

Full syllabus

Chapter 1 — Confidentiality, Privilege, and Consent (12 of 75 Q)

  • §1.0 The exam frame
  • §1.1 APCC disclosures and fees
  • §1.2 Informed consent
  • §1.3 Minors
  • §1.4 Confidentiality and CMIA
  • §1.5 Privilege (Ev C §§1010–1027)
  • §1.6 Subpoenas vs court orders
  • §1.7 Records access (H&S §§123110, 123130)
  • §1.8 One-line anchors
  • §1.9 Verdict table — who may consent?
  • §1.10 Elimination drills
  • §1.11 Privilege vs confidentiality in one breath
  • §1.12 Rapid-fire (cover the answers)
  • §1.13 Mnemonics
  • §1.14 Worked items
  • §1.15 The consent-packet blueprint
  • §1.16 Cross-chapter wiring diagram

Chapter 1 — Consent, Confidentiality, and Privilege (Exam Plan 1A)

  • §1.0 The exam — mechanics and method
  • §1.1 Pre-service disclosures
  • §1.2 Informed consent as an ongoing process
  • §1.3 Minors — routes and consequences
  • §1.4 Confidentiality — CMIA in counseling practice
  • §1.5 Privilege — holder and claimer
  • §1.6 Records — clocks, rights, retention
  • §1.7 Subpoenas versus orders
  • §1.8 Telehealth
  • §1.9 HIPAA and CMIA together
  • §1.10 Exam lens — trap pairs
  • §1.11 Applied drills (worked)
  • §1.12 Vocabulary bank
  • §1.13 Guided reading — the privilege chain (Evidence Code §§1010–1015)
  • §1.14 Records-request workbook — ten walked calls
  • §1.15 Minor-consent decision tree — five gates
  • §1.16 CMIA guided reading — §56.10's three lists
  • §1.17 The disclosure log
  • §1.18 Myths ledger — twelve corrected
  • §1.19 Rapid review — thirty 1A anchors
  • §1.20 Self-test (answers below)
  • §1.21 Two-Minute Chapter Recap
  • §1.22 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Reading the Stem Like a Lawyer
  • §1.23 Case File: The Anxious First-Timer
  • §1.24 Statute Reading Room: BPC 4999.36 Line by Line
  • §1.25 Integration Case: One Client, Five Chapter-One Doctrines
  • §1.26 Chapter One Self-Audit Checklist
  • §1.27 Flash-Card Deck: Foundations
  • §1.28 Sequencing Gym: Put the Steps in Order
  • §1.29 Ten-Question Chapter Self-Test
  • §1.30 Myths versus Facts: Foundations Edition

Chapter 2 — Limits of Confidentiality and Mandated Reporting (12 of 75 Q)

  • §2.0 The map
  • §2.1 Child abuse — CANRA elements (Pen C §11164 et seq.)
  • §2.2 CANRA procedure
  • §2.3 Elder and dependent adult (W&I §15630)
  • §2.4 Danger to others — Civ C §43.92
  • §2.5 Danger to self / grave disability
  • §2.6 Emergency disclosures
  • §2.7 The clock table (recite cold)
  • §2.8 Verdict table — report or not?
  • §2.9 Elimination drills
  • §2.10 SB 43 in three lines
  • §2.11 Rapid-fire (cover the answers)
  • §2.12 Mnemonics
  • §2.13 Worked items
  • §2.14 Reporting decision tree (trace it)
  • §2.15 Privilege intersections with reporting (the crossover trap)

Chapter 2 — Limits to Confidentiality and Mandated Reporting (Exam Plan 1B)

  • §2.1 The framework
  • §2.2 Child abuse and neglect — CANRA
  • §2.3 Elder and dependent adult abuse — W&I §15630
  • §2.4 Danger to others — Civil Code §43.92
  • §2.5 Danger to self
  • §2.6 Grave disability and the LPS ladder
  • §2.7 Privilege exceptions — the litigation cluster
  • §2.8 Evaluator and court-adjacent roles
  • §2.9 Exam lens — trap pairs
  • §2.10 Applied drills (worked)
  • §2.11 The one-page flowchart
  • §2.12 Vocabulary bank
  • §2.13 The reporting-clock master table
  • §2.14 CANRA decision workbook — ten walked calls
  • §2.15 Threat lab — five variants
  • §2.16 Privilege-exception decision tree
  • §2.17 Integration cases
  • §2.18 The reporter's script library
  • §2.19 Rapid review — twenty-five 1B anchors
  • §2.20 Self-test (answers below)
  • §2.21 Two-Minute Chapter Recap
  • §2.22 The Reporting Clock Drill
  • §2.23 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Mandated Reporting Stems
  • §2.24 Case File: The Reluctant Grandmother
  • §2.25 Case File: The Threat That Moved
  • §2.26 Statute Reading Room: HSC 124260 versus Family Code 6924
  • §2.27 Chapter Two Self-Audit Checklist
  • §2.28 Flash-Card Deck: Reporting and Consent
  • §2.29 Sequencing Gym: Crisis Order of Operations
  • §2.30 Ten-Question Chapter Self-Test
  • §2.31 Myths versus Facts: Reporting Edition
  • §2.32 Case File: The Voicemail After Hours

Chapter 3 — Professional Competency and Preventing Harm (9 of 75 Q)

  • §3.0 The map
  • §3.1 Scope and the couples/family gate
  • §3.2 Building competence
  • §3.3 Impairment
  • §3.4 Discipline and self-reporting
  • §3.5 Advertising
  • §3.6 Telehealth competence bundle
  • §3.7 CE and renewal
  • §3.8 Verdict table — scope and competence
  • §3.9 Elimination drills
  • §3.10 Impairment ladder (recite)
  • §3.11 Rapid-fire (cover the answers)
  • §3.12 Mnemonics
  • §3.13 Worked items
  • §3.14 Discipline outcome ladder (know the rungs)

Chapter 3 — Legal Standards for Professional Clinical Counseling (Exam Plan 1C)

  • §3.1 The LPCC scope — and the couples/family qualification
  • §3.2 Unprofessional conduct and the discipline machine
  • §3.3 Sexual misconduct — the three statutes
  • §3.4 Records and documentation
  • §3.5 Advertising
  • §3.6 Fees, billing, collections, payors
  • §3.7 Referral consideration — §650
  • §3.8 Exam lens — trap pairs
  • §3.9 Applied drills (worked)
  • §3.10 The 1C statute map
  • §3.11 Vocabulary bank
  • §3.12 Discipline case gallery — six patterns
  • §3.13 Documentation clinic — the defensible note
  • §3.14 Advertising makeover lab
  • §3.15 The money-and-conduct grid
  • §3.16 Scope-boundary drills — ten rapid calls
  • §3.17 The associate's year-one compliance calendar
  • §3.18 Rapid review — twenty 1C anchors
  • §3.19 Self-test (answers below)
  • §3.20 Two-Minute Chapter Recap
  • §3.21 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Scope and Competence Stems
  • §3.22 Case File: The Weekend Certificate
  • §3.23 Statute Reading Room: The Substantial-Relationship Test
  • §3.24 Case File: The Slipping Supervisor
  • §3.25 Integration Case: Telehealth Across the County Line
  • §3.26 Chapter Three Self-Audit Checklist
  • §3.27 Flash-Card Deck: Competence and Discipline
  • §3.28 Sequencing Gym: Building a New Competence
  • §3.29 Ten-Question Chapter Self-Test
  • §3.30 Myths versus Facts: Competence Edition
  • §3.31 Case File: The Expired Continuing Education

Chapter 4 — Ethical Standards: Professional Practice (12 of 75 Q)

  • §4.0 The three bins
  • §4.1 Sexual misconduct — the two clocks
  • §4.2 Gifts and bartering
  • §4.3 Small-community practice
  • §4.4 Students and supervisees
  • §4.5 Colleague misconduct
  • §4.6 Values and cultural humility
  • §4.7 Verdict table — the boundary gallery
  • §4.8 Elimination drills
  • §4.9 The §726/§728/§729 trio in one breath
  • §4.10 Rapid-fire (cover the answers)
  • §4.11 Mnemonics
  • §4.12 Worked items
  • §4.13 Documentation scripts for boundary moments

Chapter 4 — Professional Competence and Integrity (Exam Plan 2A)

  • §4.1 Competence — counseling's construction
  • §4.2 Cultural competence — the 2A pillar
  • §4.3 Conflicts of interest
  • §4.4 Boundaries and nonprofessional relationships — counseling's framework
  • §4.5 Sexual ethics beyond the statutes
  • §4.6 Personal values — counseling's settled doctrine
  • §4.7 Impairment
  • §4.8 Consultation
  • §4.9 Exam lens — trap pairs
  • §4.10 Applied drills (worked)
  • §4.11 Vocabulary bank
  • §4.12 Dual-relationship decision workbook — ten walked calls
  • §4.13 Cultural-formulation lab — four reframes
  • §4.14 Impairment self-audit — the honest twenty
  • §4.15 Integration cases
  • §4.16 Rapid review — twenty 2A anchors
  • §4.17 Self-test (answers below)
  • §4.18 Two-Minute Chapter Recap
  • §4.19 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Boundary Stems
  • §4.20 Case File: The Tamale Basket
  • §4.21 Case File: The Landlord Client
  • §4.22 Statute Reading Room: BPC 729 and the Five-Year Bar, Side by Side
  • §4.23 Integration Case: The Counselor Educator's Double Bind
  • §4.24 Chapter Four Self-Audit Checklist
  • §4.25 Flash-Card Deck: Boundaries and Standards
  • §4.26 Sequencing Gym: Handling a Boundary Crossing
  • §4.27 Ten-Question Chapter Self-Test
  • §4.28 Myths versus Facts: Boundaries Edition
  • §4.29 Statute Reading Room: BPC 728 — The Brochure Nobody Reads Until They Must
  • §4.30 Case File: The Colleague at the Gala

Chapter 5 — Ethical Standards: Client Welfare (18 of 75 Q)

  • §5.0 The spine
  • §5.1 Informed consent as process
  • §5.2 The values-imposition rule (LPCC signature doctrine)
  • §5.3 Termination and abandonment
  • §5.4 Fees and collections
  • §5.5 Records and access machinery
  • §5.6 Detriment exception and minors' records
  • §5.7 Diagnosis
  • §5.8 CMIA and subpoenas (welfare edition)
  • §5.9 Numbers to recite
  • §5.10 Verdict table — welfare calls
  • §5.11 Elimination drills
  • §5.12 Termination checklist (the credited exit)
  • §5.13 Rapid-fire (cover the answers)
  • §5.14 Mnemonics
  • §5.15 Worked items
  • §5.16 The abandonment line — where exits go wrong
  • §5.17 Fee-agreement anatomy (what "disclosed in advance" means)

Chapter 5 — Responsibility to Clients and the Counseling Relationship (Exam Plan 2B)

  • §5.1 Consent as relationship practice
  • §5.2 Other providers
  • §5.3 Benefit and honest planning
  • §5.4 Autonomy and client welfare
  • §5.5 Confidentiality ethics in context
  • §5.6 Safety and crisis management
  • §5.7 Collisions — law, institution, ethics
  • §5.8 Advocacy and collaboration
  • §5.9 Referral practice
  • §5.10 Interruption, closure, termination
  • §5.11 Exam lens — trap pairs
  • §5.12 Applied drills (worked)
  • §5.13 Vocabulary bank
  • §5.14 Termination-letter anatomy
  • §5.15 Abandonment case files — five, judged
  • §5.16 Denial and cap script lab
  • §5.17 Crisis-session walkthrough — sixty minutes
  • §5.18 The client-rights charter
  • §5.19 Termination-grounds sorter
  • §5.20 Rapid review — twenty-five 2B anchors
  • §5.21 Self-test (answers below)
  • §5.22 Two-Minute Chapter Recap
  • §5.23 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Client-Welfare Stems
  • §5.24 Case File: The Counselor Who Wanted Out
  • §5.25 Case File: The Balance and the Threat
  • §5.26 Statute Reading Room: HSC 123110 and 123130 as an Access Machine
  • §5.27 Integration Case: One Termination, Every Doctrine
  • §5.28 Chapter Five Self-Audit Checklist
  • §5.29 Flash-Card Deck: Client Welfare
  • §5.30 Sequencing Gym: Welfare Order of Operations
  • §5.31 Ten-Question Chapter Self-Test
  • §5.32 Statute Reading Room: CMIA — The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act in Counseling Practice
  • §5.33 Case File: The Subpoena in the Mailbox
  • §5.34 Myths versus Facts: Client Welfare Edition
  • §5.35 Exam-Day Protocol for the Heaviest Subarea

Chapter 6 — Ethical Standards: Professional Growth (12 of 75 Q)

  • §6.0 The map
  • §6.1 Supervision structure
  • §6.2 Hour logs and the ghost supervisor
  • §6.3 Consultation vs supervision
  • §6.4 Distance counseling bundle
  • §6.5 Social media
  • §6.6 AI and emerging technology
  • §6.7 Research and teaching
  • §6.8 Records lifecycle and retention
  • §6.9 Final week
  • §6.10 Verdict table — growth calls
  • §6.11 Elimination drills
  • §6.12 Supervision agreement contents (recite)
  • §6.13 Rapid-fire (cover the answers)
  • §6.14 Mnemonics
  • §6.15 Worked items
  • §6.16 Technology risk ledger (match tool → risk → control)
  • §6.17 The associate's year — a compliance calendar
  • §6.18 Sixty answers in sixty lines — the whole book's spine

Chapter 6 — Practice Policies and Professional Responsibilities (Exam Plan 2C)

  • §6.1 Technology, distance counseling, and AI
  • §6.2 Financial ethics
  • §6.3 Gifts — counseling's factors
  • §6.4 Advertising and testimonials
  • §6.5 Multiple roles, forensic work, and evaluations
  • §6.6 Research and publication
  • §6.7 Colleague misconduct and self-correction
  • §6.8 Supervision — both chairs
  • §6.9 Exam lens — trap pairs
  • §6.10 Applied drills (worked)
  • §6.11 Vocabulary bank
  • §6.12 Learner FAQ
  • §6.13 Final-week calendar
  • §6.14 Technology-policy walkthrough — clause by clause
  • §6.15 AI vetting checklist
  • §6.16 Supervision-contract anatomy
  • §6.17 Forensic-request decision tree
  • §6.18 Records-lifecycle workshop
  • §6.19 Rapid review — twenty 2C anchors
  • §6.20 Capstone — one vignette, six chapters
  • §6.21 The 40-item final sweep
  • §6.22 Self-test (answers below)
  • §6.23 Two-Minute Chapter Recap
  • §6.24 Answer-Elimination Workshop: Supervision and Technology Stems
  • §6.25 Case File: The Ghost Supervisor
  • §6.26 Case File: The Client Who Found Everything
  • §6.27 Statute Reading Room: The Records Lifecycle from Intake to Shredder
  • §6.28 Capstone Integration Case: The Whole Examination in One Afternoon
  • §6.29 Chapter Six Self-Audit Checklist and Final Sweep
  • §6.30 Flash-Card Deck: Growth, Supervision, Technology
  • §6.31 Sequencing Gym: Growth Order of Operations
  • §6.32 Ten-Question Chapter Self-Test
  • §6.33 Case File: The Conference Presentation
  • §6.34 Myths versus Facts: Growth and Technology Edition
  • §6.35 Master Statute and Authority Index
  • §6.36 The Last Word: How This Pack Fits Together

Sample from Part I

Chapter 1 — Confidentiality, Privilege, and Consent (12 of 75 Q) High-yield review. Full doctrine: Treatise Ch. 1. Practice material — not affiliated with the BBS, Pearson VUE, or the ACA. §1.0 The exam frame - 75 Q / 90 min; 50 scored + 25 unscored pretest (invisible); pass/fail; fail → 90-day wait; $150/attempt; Pearson VUE. APCCs must attempt each renewal cycle until passed — attempt, not pass, preserves renewal. - 2024 plan (shared, all three BBS professions): 1A 16 · 1B 16 · 1C 12 · 2A 16 · 2B 24 · 2C 16. Ethics source: ACA Code (2014); statutes control legal questions. - Read the call: "must" (statute) ≠ "should" (ACA) ≠ "first" (assess/least-restrictive) ≠ "best" (client-protective survivor). §1.1 APCC disclosures and fees - BPC §4999.36: before ANY professional services, written disclosure of (1) associate/ trainee status, (2) employer's name, (3) under licensed supervision. All three; personal duty. - No direct client payment to an APCC — fees run through the employer. Client hands the associate a check → the fee rule, not gratitude. - Title accuracy: "LPCC"/"professional clinical counselor" protected; APCC never advertises as licensed; supervisor identified where required. §1.2 Informed consent - A process, not a signature: services, risks/benefits, alternatives, fees, confidentiality limits, supervision status, telehealth specifics, records practices. Revisit at every material change (modality, fees, format). - Capacity + knowledge + voluntariness; interpreters and teach-back for comprehension; documented. - Consent never waives mandated reporting and never authorizes unlawful acts. §1.3 Minors - H&S §124260: minor 12+ and mature enough to participate intelligently → may consent to outpatient mental health treatment. No danger element. - Fam C §6924: 12+, mature, plus danger to self/others or alleged incest/abuse victim. - Both statutes: involve parent/guardian unless documented inappropriate. - Stem sorter: ordinary anxiety, mature 14-year-old → 124260. Danger/abuse language → 6924. §1.4 Confidentiality and CMIA - Default: everything the client reveals in the professional relationship is confidential — breach only through consent or a recognized exception. - CMIA (Civ C §56 et seq.): no disclosure without a valid authorization — signed, dated, specific recipient/content/use, expiration. Generic releases fail. - Remedies bite without proven loss: nominal statutory damages + administrative penalties. - Minimum-necessary is the master principle: disclose the least that the purpose requires. §1.5 Privilege (Ev C §§1010–1027) - Psychotherapist–patient privilege: the client holds it; the counselor claims it for the client whenever records/testimony are sought. - Key exceptions: patient-litigant (client puts their condition at issue), court-ordered examination (told in advance = no privilege), dangerous-patient, crime/tort furtherance. - Privilege is a courtroom doctrine; confidentiality is the everyday duty — exam stems swap them. §1.6 Subpoenas vs court orders - Attorney-issued subpoena alone ≠ authorization: assert privilege, notify the client and their counsel, object; produce only on valid authorization or a judge's order. - Ignoring a subpoena risks contempt; the credited middle path is formal objection + judicial resolution. Opposing counsel's litigation need creates no right. §1.7 Records access (H&S §§123110, 123130) - Inspect: 5 working days of written

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