Beyond Checklists: Ethical, Compassionate Diagnosis for Modern Clinicians
Diagnose with confidence and stay aligned with your ethics.
Begin Your Compassionate PracticeCourse Overview
Diagnosing is one of the most impactful parts of our work as mental health clinicians. This vodcast style training gives you the tools, clarity, and real-world examples you need to diagnose accurately, avoid missteps, and better support the clients you serve.
This Course Is For You If…
- You’re early in your career and want to feel more confident making diagnostic decisions that are accurate, ethical, and well-documented.
- You’re an experienced clinician who wants to sharpen your diagnostic skills, reduce harm, and bring a more culturally responsive and neurodivergent-affirming lens to your work.
- You’re a supervisor or educator who wants to better support trainees in navigating ethical questions around diagnosis, documentation, and communicating labels with clients.
- You’re a clinician who feels constrained by rigid diagnostic systems and wants to integrate ethics, empathy, and critical thinking into every assessment without burning out or losing your humanity.
What You’ll Walk Away With
Dana M. Cea (she/they)
Through Dana’s work with clients and their own experiences navigating diagnosis, they’ve seen how powerful—and how complicated—a label can be. As a supervisor, she noticed that clinicians often felt unsure about how to diagnose ethically, document their reasoning, and talk with clients about diagnoses in ways that reduce harm instead of reinforcing stigma. Now, through their work as a counselor, supervisor, and educator, Dana helps mental health professionals approach diagnosis with more clarity, confidence, and care. Their teaching centers ethics, cultural responsiveness, and neurodivergent-affirming practice so clinicians can make informed decisions that truly support the people they serve.
“Together, we can make this field better for both clients and clinicians.”
Course Preview
Explore how ethical codes and best practices shape diagnostic work, and how clinicians can make thoughtful, culturally responsive, affirming decisions even when information is unclear or systems create pressure.
Course Description: Diagnosing is one of the most impactful parts of our work as mental health clinicians. This training takes clinicians beyond memorizing criteria and into the real-world intersection of ethics, clinical judgment, documentation, and harm-reduction. We will explore how ethical codes and best practices shape diagnostic work, and how clinicians can make thoughtful, culturally responsive, affirming decisions even when information is unclear or systems create pressure. By the end of the training, participants will be able to approach the diagnostic process more accurately, communicate more transparently, and uphold ethical standards with confidence.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key ethical standards and legal considerations that apply to diagnostic assessment in mental health practice.
- Demonstrate strategies for collaborating transparently with clients about diagnosis, including discussing risks, benefits, and alternatives.
- Implement best-practice documentation that reflects ethical reasoning, clinical judgment, and appropriate justification for diagnostic conclusions.
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For on demand products you will complete the training then submit a quiz and survey. If you pass the quiz, a certificate will be available for you almost immediately. For live events you will be given a link to a survey. After receiving your survey submission, a certificate will be emailed to you within ten days.
All major forms of payment are accepted through our checkout process. If you have any issues, questions, or concerns, please let us know.
For any course, simply increase the quantity to the number of seats you need to purchase. When purchasing more than one seat, the buyer will not be automatically enrolled in the product. However, they can enroll using the link provided after the purchase. After the purchase is successfully completed, the buyer is brought to the thank you page with additional seat management options. To get access to their seat, each team member needs to access the course using the invite link. They will be brought directly to the checkout page for the product that they got an invite for, where they will need to create an account (if they do not already have one) to get access to the product. Looking for a group rate? Email us ([email protected]) and let us know!
All refund requests must be made in writing ([email protected]).
On demand products: Full refunds will be given for accidental duplicate purchases or for products that you have not already used. No refunds or credits will be given for products that have been started or completed. If you have a complaint, please see our policy regarding complaints.
Live products: Registrants canceling between two weeks and two full business days prior to the first day of the event are refunded at 70% of the registration fee subject to a cancellation fee of 5% of the original purchase price, including taxes and other fees. Registrants canceling less than two full business days prior to the first day of the event are refunded at 25% of the registration fee subject to a cancellation fee of 5% of the original purchase price, including taxes and other fees. No vouchers will be issued in lieu of a refund. Transfers/substitute(s) welcome (notify in advance of the program).
While we hope this never happens, here is our formal policy: Complaints must be made in writing ([email protected]). A representative will follow up on written complaints within 30 days of receiving the complaint. The following information must be included in the written complaint:
(1) The name and contact information for the person making the complaint.
(2) The name and contact information for the person or organization against which the complaint is made.
(3) A detailed written description of the dispute, complaint, or problem.
(4) Reference to the appropriate rule, standard, and/or guidelines related to the matter (if known).
(5) Copies of all related correspondence, records, and other documentation.
(6) Signature of the person making the complaint.
Please email us at [email protected] or call/text us at (919) 960-1646. We will work with you to meet your accommodation needs.
Please email us at [email protected] or call/text us at 919-960-1646. Also visit our main website at home.ccresourcing.us. We look forward to hearing from you! Mailing address: 118 Brookside Way, Pikeville NC 27863.
Let’s Build a More Compassionate Diagnostic Future
If you believe diagnosis should do more good than harm, you’re in the right place. Beyond Checklists helps you balance accuracy with empathy — giving you tools to diagnose ethically, document with clarity, and communicate with care.
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