Legal & Ethical Principles for Wellness Professionals

Legal and Ethical Principles Domain

Legal and Ethical Principles, Wellness Competency Model

Increase your understanding of compliance, confidentiality, scope of practice and more to protect yourself and those you serve. Case studies, scenarios, and a variety of interactive methods are employed during the course to help you understand ways to develop and maintain ethical relationships and practices within the fast-expanding moral and ethical wellness landscape.

Learning Objectives

  • Comply with legal standards for confidentiality, compliance, and mandated reporting.
  • Work within your scope of practice and in accordance with your profession-specific code of conduct.
  • Maintain ethical relationships.

Who Should Attend?

This course is applicable to individual practitioners as well as anyone who promotes wellness within organizations or communities.

Course Delivery

Within this self-paced interactive eLearning course, you’ll find knowledge checks or activities to enhance your learning as well as a variety of tools and resources you can apply in your work. 

Course Requirements

Time to complete the course varies by learner, but we suggest planning for a total of three to five hours for to complete all the learning elements, including any application activities and self-reflections.
Wellness Promotion Competency Model: Legal and Ethical Principles

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Continuing Education

The course is eligible for 3 CE credits and preapproved for: CWP (Category 1), CHES/MCHES (Category I), NBC-HWC (Activity ID: CEA-000253-3). View our CEC Info page for more details. You must complete the full lesson and submit the Course Evaluation + CEC Request form before your course access ends to earn your continuing education credit certificate.
About the Wellness Promotion Competency Model
Wellness Promotion Competency ModelThe research-based Wellness Promotion Competency Model encompasses a total of 27 competencies grouped into five domains. This ground-breaking resource aids in curriculum development, recruitment and hiring, continuing professional development, and certification in the wellness field.

The model serves as the standard for the gold-standard Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification.