Ethics in Prevention: A Guide for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners

This two-week, asynchronous, online moderated course explores the six principles of the Substance Misuse Prevention Code of Ethics, brought to life with realistic examples designed to enhance participant understanding. The course also introduces a decision-making process to help practitioners apply this code to a variety of ethical dilemmas, and an online discussion area to facilitate discussion with other course participants.

This is a self-paced, moderated course meaning there are no real time events. You will be asked to complete content modules on HealtheKnowledge and participate in learning forums that will be moderated by a trainer.

This course will take approximately six hours to complete over the course of two weeks. Modules will be released on August 3, 5, 7, 12 and 14. On completing all assignments and passing the assessment at the end of the course (80% correct), participants will receive a certificate of completion for six hours.

As a participant in this course, you will be expected to:

• Read the course content for each day, according to the course schedule.
• Participate in five online learning forums. This includes posting a response to 3 to 5 discussion questions per forum, reviewing a case example, and completing a corresponding worksheet per forum, as well as reviewing the posts from fellow course participants and posting at least one response.
• Review the online summaries provided by the course moderator