BBS Law and Ethics examinations
Choose the distinct California Law and Ethics exam path for LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC candidates without mixing profession-specific duties or questions.
California qualification roadmap
Choose LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC first. Each profession has its own education, associate registration, supervised-experience, Law and Ethics examination, and clinical-examination rules.
Use the current BBS applicant guide for LMFT, LCSW, or LPCC. Do not treat the three licenses or their Law and Ethics examinations as interchangeable.
Confirm degree, coursework, practicum, and any California-specific education deficiencies before or during the associate-registration process.
Follow the applicable AMFT, ASW, or APCC registration and renewal rules while accruing supervised experience.
Associates must take the profession-specific California Law and Ethics examination annually until passing and must pass it for a subsequent registration.
Accrue, document, and submit the profession-specific supervised experience and resolve any deficiencies under the current BBS rules.
After BBS approves eligibility, complete the applicable California or national clinical examination and the final license-issuance steps.
Official California requirements
Reviewed July 21, 2026
BBS uses a separate California Law and Ethics examination for each LMFT, LCSW, and LPCC license path. 101PD keeps the three preparation products separate and does not represent exam prep as approved continuing education.
Authority: California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS)
Agency rules control. Requirements can change and individual eligibility varies. 101PD identifies each course as training, application-pending, or approved; it does not treat exam preparation as statutory credit unless the named authority has approved that specific course and provider.
Choose your licensing stage
Three separate BBS Law and Ethics exam-preparation tracks for LMFT, LCSW, and LPCC candidates. Colors identify the stage; they never imply approval.
Exam prep
Practice/training material. Not approved for CE/MCLE/CPE credit. No credit hours are issued.Available soon - join the waitlist
California LMFT Law and Ethics Exam Prep with honest content status, California-specific scope, and server-controlled launch pricing.
$0 / Free
12 hours
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Practice/training material. Not approved for CE/MCLE/CPE credit. No credit hours are issued.Available soon - join the waitlist
California LCSW Law and Ethics Exam Prep with honest content status, California-specific scope, and server-controlled launch pricing.
$0 / Free
12 hours
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Practice/training material. Not approved for CE/MCLE/CPE credit. No credit hours are issued.Available soon - join the waitlist
California LPCC Law and Ethics Exam Prep with honest content status, California-specific scope, and server-controlled launch pricing.
$0 / Free
12 hours
View detailsWhat the learning experience includes
A plain-language path from education through exam readiness and renewal, separated by the stage of the license.
Every course page exposes learning objectives, a section-level syllabus, sample material, assessment rules, and FAQs.
Quizzes support learning; server-graded finals, timers, retries, and recovery rules follow the applicable track configuration.
Resume reading and learning from the account portal, with state, deadlines, and completion evidence calculated by the server.
Drafting, training, application-pending, and approved states are never blended together or hidden behind a sales claim.
Downloadable certificates, verification pages, and regulator instructions appear only in the form the course status permits.
Course-level detail
12 hours · LCSW Law and Ethics · Content in production
12 hours · LMFT Law and Ethics · Content in production
12 hours · LPCC Law and Ethics · Content in production
How 101PD works
Start with prelicensing, exam preparation, or continuing education.
Read its syllabus, sample, status, hours, assessment format, and package relationships.
Published content opens the appropriate free path. Drafting content accepts a deduplicated availability request.
Resume from the portal, complete the configured assessments, and receive the permitted completion evidence.
Common questions
101PD is in its free launch period. Future prices are stored, but public payment links remain disabled until every approval and payment gate passes.
The public outline is ready, but the full learning content is still in production. Join that page's waitlist; enrollment cannot open until its content status is Published.
No. They serve different stages of a license. This page keeps them together for comparison while every card states its own purpose and credit status.
Training completions receive an honest training certificate. Regulator-credit certificates are issued only when the specific course and provider approval permit them.
When a defensible public comparison exists, the product card names the provider, comparable offer, checked date, and source price. It is context only: the 101PD launch price remains $0 and a comparison never creates approval or enrollment rights.
Payment links stay server-disabled while a course is drafting, while a regulated provider or course approval is pending, or while the required reporting and certificate workflow has not passed end-to-end verification.