5a: August 22, 2025: Ethical Issues with Children, Youth, and Families

Friday, August 22, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Pre-register by August 15, 2025

This course will be in-person on SLU Campus

3 CEHs

$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors

$65.00 All others

Course Description
Presenter: Shannon Cooper-Sadlo, Ph.D., LCSW

Title: Ethical Issues with Children, Youth, and Families
*Meets Ethics Requirements

Learning Objectives:

• Apply the NASW Code of Ethics to common ethical dilemmas social workers face when working with children, youth, and families in a range of clinical and community practice settings. 
• Discuss strategies to integrate ethical decision making within the school, child welfare, and family systems settings.
• Through group interaction and the presentation of case studies, evaluate the utility of various models for ethical decision making. 

Course Description: This CE course will use the NASW Code of Ethics and discuss how it pertains to common dilemmas social workers and other clinical professionals face related to confidentiality, mandatory reporting and working with children and adolescents and their families. The complexity of working ethically increases exponentially when working with two or more members of a system, such as a couple or family, which is often the case when working with children and youth. Consideration about the social workers’ responsibility within the interdisciplinary setting of the school, child welfare, and family systems will be explored. Participants will have the opportunity to compare and to contrast ethical decision-making models and then use them to guide potential decisions surrounding real-life case examples.

Bio: Shannon Cooper-Sadlo, Ph.D., LCSW is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and a Clinical Professor, who currently teaches B.S.S.W.-level practice courses and M.S.W. courses in the clinical concentration at Saint Louis University’s School of Social Work. Dr. Cooper-Sadlo is a graduate of the Saint Louis University B.S.S.W. program, the University of Denver M.S.W. program, and obtained her Ph.D. in family therapy from Saint Louis University. She has been in clinical practice with various populations and specializes in areas of family therapy, substance use, co-occurring disorders, and trauma. In these positions, she has had significant experience working with individuals and families in hospitals and community settings. She has also provided various community workshops for professionals in the areas of trauma, substance use and the impact on the family.