Demystifying the Code: Ethics in Gambling Treatment

Includes a Live Web Event on 05/15/2026 at 9:00 AM (CDT)

Join us on Friday May 15th for a 3-hour Ethics training from 9:00-12:00pm CT with Nan Franks!

This engaging training demystifies ethics by moving beyond rules and into the lived realities of clinical practice with people experiencing gambling problems. Through guided reflection, discussion, and case application, participants will explore how ethical principles, professional boundaries, self-awareness, and self-care shape sound clinical decision-making. Special attention is given to the unique vulnerabilities and complexities present in gambling treatment, helping clinicians leave with practical tools they can immediately use.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the core ethical principles that guide clinical decision-making in problem gambling treatment, including autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity.

2. Recognize common ethical challenges and high-risk situations that arise in gambling treatment, including dual relationships, confidentiality concerns, suicidality, and co-occurring disorders.

3. Evaluate the impact of clinician self-awareness, personal values, and professional boundaries on ethical treatment planning and service delivery.

4. Develop strategies for maintaining professional competence, managing impairment, and integrating self-care as an ethical responsibility.

Live and Virtual CE pending approval.

This training is sponsored in whole or in part by the Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery.

ICPG workshops and trainings provide CEU (continuing education units) through the Illinois Certification Board based on approval for individual trainings.
The State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Division of Professional Regulation (IDFPR) has approved all ICPG workshops and trainings as a Registered Social Worker CE Sponsor. This program is recognized as providing CE hours for: LSW/LCSW and LPC/LCPC under IDFPR license #159.001302.
The International Problem Gambling and Gaming Certification Organization recognizes ICPG as a preferred partner for workshops and trainings in line with the ICGC Level I & II.

Nan Franks

Nan Franks, LPCC, LICDC-CS, GAMB, is a behavioral health clinician, trainer, and community leader with more than 40 years of experience supporting individuals and families through addiction, grief, trauma, and financial recovery. Her work brings together deep clinical expertise in problem gambling, substance use, family systems, and affected others, along with the grounded compassion that comes from lived experience.

Nan has spent more than a decade specializing in problem gambling treatment and financial counseling, helping individuals and families rebuild trust, stability, and hope. She is also an Accredited Financial Counselor, bringing specialized expertise in the role of money, debt, and financial healing within recovery and family systems work. In addition to her clinical and training work, she has authored several books on ethics for behavioral health providers, reflecting her long-standing commitment to thoughtful, values-based practice in the helping professions. She has served on the Warm Transfer Initiative with the Ohio Problem Gambling Helpline and is a board member of the Problem Gambling Coalition of Southwest Ohio, where she helps strengthen community responses to gambling-related harm.