Full Course Description
Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Clinical Practice
As clinicians we come face to face with ethical “gray areas” daily and often skate around potential issues that could put our businesses, clinical work, or clients in jeopardy.
And of these “gray areas,” boundary issues and dual relationship challenges are a leading cause of lawsuits and licensing board complaints filed against behavioral health practitioners.
In this training you’ll receive a truly expert analysis of a range of boundary issues that behavioral health practitioners encounter. From the ethics of intimate relationships with clients and former clients; the healthy parameters of practitioners’ self-disclosure; boundary challenges when working and living in small and rural communities to the use of nontraditional interventions and so much more!
So watch ethics expert and former chair of the task force that wrote the NASW Code of Ethics, Frederic Reamer, PhD, as he provides guidance to behavioral health practitioners who grapple with these challenging situations and their aftermath. Dr. Reamer will cover a myriad of ethical dilemmas that behavioral health practitioners face in their careers and provides practical ethics-informed advice and actionable solutions. You’ll also learn:
- The nature of boundary issues and dual relationship challenges
- Patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships
- Ethical standards governing boundaries and dual relationships
- Ways to prevent harm to clients
- The latest risk management strategies designed to prevent litigation and licensing board complaints
Purchase today and avoid ethical entanglements that risk your professional liability!
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify the nature of boundary issues and dual relationship challenges in the behavioral health professions.
- Explain patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships.
- Recognize high-risk circumstances that can lead to problematic boundaries and dual relationships.
- Apply ethical standards governing boundaries and dual relationships.
- Implement protocols to prevent harm to clients.
- Implement protocols to prevent litigation and licensing board complaints related to professional boundaries and dual relationships.
Outline
The nature of boundary issues and dual relationships in the behavioral health professions: Code of Ethics
- Boundary crossings and boundary violations
- Common practitioner mistakes
- Address practitioner impairment and warning signs
- Prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints
- Unethical conduct
- Assess boundary-related risks
- Importance of careful documentation
- Boundaries and dual relationship case examples
Boundary issues in the digital age
- Communicate with current/former clients online
- Browsing for information about clients
- Challenges related to clients searching for information about their therapists
Patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships
- Intimate relationships
- Emotional and dependency needs
- Personal benefit
- Altruism
- Unavoidable and unanticipated circumstances
Ethical standards: Boundaries and Dual Relationships
- Conflicts of interest
- Unethical conduct
- The boundaries of self-disclosure
- Prevent impairment and boundary violations
- Practitioner incompetence
- Professional negligence
- Standard of care for ethically complex cases
- Importance of supervision
- What healthy boundaries look like
Risk Management Strategies: Protecting Clients and Practitioners
- Professional negligence and malpractice
- Codes of ethics standards
- Statutes and regulations
- Standards of care and ethical practice
- Ethical decision making
- Create a strategy and common warning signs
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Behavioral Health Nurses
- Case Managers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
11/15/2023
Social Justice, Ethics and Multicultural Issues for Mental Health Professionals
Effective treatment focuses on the whole person. The thoughts, behaviors and sufferings of your clients are intimately connected to the social and cultural context in which they live.
Without seeing your clients in their entirety, you could fail to recognize the unique challenges, stressors, barriers and burdens that can lie at the heart of their mental health issues. But even therapists can feel uncomfortable with conversations surrounding racial, cultural, sexual, economic and religious issues. And cultural stigmas and distrust born from societal power dynamics can cause some clients to hold back in therapy or leave treatment early.
This inspiring class will open your eyes to the struggles of disenfranchised or marginalized populations, and give you practical and innovative techniques so you can comfortably and successfully work with them in treatment. You’ll leave able to more capably assess clients, avoid cultural misunderstandings that can harm the therapeutic alliance, and gain the trust you need to achieve truly transformative results.
It’s time to be the change you wish to see.
Purchase today and feel the satisfaction and joy that come with being a better advocate for clients individually, communally and globally!
Program Information
Objectives
- Argue how social class and race can impact clinical assessment and treatment of mental health issues.
- Conclude how the values and biases of clinicians can influence treatment and therapeutic outcomes.
- Appraise how mental health clinicians can better understand clients within their social and cultural environments to avoid misunderstanding that can harm the therapeutic alliance.
- Demonstrate how clinicians can more comfortably and capably discuss issues surrounding race and economic issues that clients can be reluctant to talk about.
- Determine how clinicians can help clients overcome cultural shame for improved engagement in mental health treatment.
- Devise two ways clinicians can reduce barriers to mental health treatment that face minority groups and disenfranchised people.
Outline
How Client Identity and Systemic Dynamics Impact Assessment and Treatment
- Social class, race, ethnicity, poverty and religion
- Gender identity and sexuality
- Myths, oppression, stereotypes and microaggressions
- Power dynamics of counseling that can threaten minority groups
- How clinician’s values and biases influence therapeutic outcomes
- Culturally competent assessment techniques
- Research implications and limitations
Ethics and the Equal Treatment of Clients
- Obligations to challenge social injustice
- Respecting the inherent dignity and worth of the person
- Valuing the importance of human relationships
Clinical Strategies: That Meet Clients Where They Are: Proven Approaches for Greater Empathy and Effectiveness
- How to understand clients within their social and cultural environments
- Strategies to recognize your:
- Inherent biases
- Histories and generational influences
- Self-assessment – identify personal values that can influence therapeutic outcomes
- Techniques to work with inter-generational and historical trauma
- Crisis intervention strategies
Be a Change Agent: How to Advocate for Your Clients Individually, Communally, and Globally
- Should clinicians hold a neutral position?
- Strategies to reduce barriers to accessing mental health treatment
- Overcome cultural shame surrounding mental health issues
- Tips for working with racial stress and trauma
- Connect clients to resources, agencies and funding
- Intervention at the system level
Case Scenarios
- 32 year-old Latino female with PTSD
- 46 year-old woman originally from Pakistan with depression
- 38 year-old Native American male with suicidal ideation and substance abuse issues
- 30 year-old Latino male with HIV referred for case management services
- 18 year-old Asian American female with eating disorders
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/31/2023
Ethical Standards for Culturally Competent Practice
Mental health professionals have an ethical responsibility to make every reasonable effort to reduce bias, prejudice and discrimination based on a variety of cultural similarities and differences. Unfortunately, unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to ethical dilemmas and disconnected personal and professional relationships. In addition, professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear of not knowing enough about other cultures to try to effectively support those different than themselves. This session equips helping professionals in their effort to meet and maintain ethical standards by reducing the likelihood of unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings as well as repair relationships damaged by cultural offenses. This relationship-focused session will provide practical language and strategies for reducing tensions and perceived barriers and helping strengthen cross-cultural relationships.
Program Information
Objectives
- Develop an attainable goal for ethical cultural competency in cross-cultural professional relationships.
- Use healthy diversity language to avoid division and increase cohesion among culturally diverse families and communities.
- Utilize strategies for overcoming common barriers to ethical culturally competent mental health care.
Outline
- An Attainable Goal for Ethical Cultural Competency
- Conveying Value of Varying Cultural Identities, Expressions, & Needs
- The Ethical Significance of Culturally Competent Language Usage
- Practical Strategies for Reducing & Addressing Cultural Offenses
- Research, Risks and Treatment Limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Educators
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/24/2023
A Shame-Free Path to Cultural Competence: Rising to the Challenge
Even with an increased appreciation of the importance of multicultural awareness, many therapists feel confused about how to work effectively with clients from different cultural backgrounds. Too often, fear of even inadvertently offending a client constrains them and flattens the therapeutic experience. Fortunately, most therapists already possess the tools they need to reduce misunderstandings and repair relationships when unintentional transgressions occur. Exploring cultural issues beyond ethnicity (gender, religion, age, etc.), this recording will offer practical strategies to help you feel more comfortable in your ability to meet the needs of whomever you have the opportunity to serve. You’ll discover:
- Specific strategies to address cultural differences as well as reduce and repair offenses that can damage the therapeutic relationship
- How to identify and incorporate a variety of culturally relevant influencing factors in treatment
- Ways to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offenses in the therapeutic relationship.
- Appraise a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on treatment.
- Determine how to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions.
- Evaluate ways to increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures.
Outline
Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offenses in the therapeutic relationship.
- A Client-centered approach to cultural competence
- Strategies for identifying & addressing microaggressions
Identify a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on treatment.
- Ethical implications of cultural competence in assessment and treatment
- Cultural experiences therapists often misunderstand (e.g. ethnicity, diverse families, age, gender, religion)
Describe how to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions.
- Clarifying commonly misunderstood diversity language
- Application of cultural competence on client rapport as well as advocacy
Explore ways to increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures.
- Strategies for increased self-awareness and acceptance
- Reducing barriers of shame and guilt in increasing cultural competence
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/20/2021
Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence
The thought of a client dying by suicide can keep even experienced therapists up at night. Moreover, fear of malpractice liability often leads them to practice defensively, resulting in unnecessary hospitalizations that can significantly hurt therapy outcomes. This recording features evidence-based innovations in the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal risk. Learn new suicide-focused clinical skills, such as how to evaluate different suicidal states and match them with the most effective interventions and treatments in face-to-face work or using telehealth. You’ll discover:
- How to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and an over-reliance on medications
- Effective techniques to help suicidal clients manage states of acute risk through stabilization planning or use of technology and how to use telehealth to effective work with suicide risk
- Evidence-based approaches to reliably assess, target, and treat clients’ suicidal risk and different suicidal states using frameworks such as Collaborative Assessment Management of Suicidality (CAMS), DBT, and suicide-focused CBT
- How to use CAMS to differentiate direct vs. indirect patient-defined “drivers” of suicide and how to effectively target and treat drivers to decrease suffering and help save lives
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states.
- Appraise risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk.
- Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states.
- Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes.
- Utilize practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability using face-to-face practice or telehealth.
Outline
- Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states
- Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk
- Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states (both face-to-face and using telehealth)
- Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
- Learn practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/13/2022
Telehealth
As a mental health clinician, you’ve got a great “feel” for in-person therapy. And you’re skilled in using all your senses and intuitions during face-to-face assessment and treatment.
And while providing telehealth services in a must in today’s world, you worry that if you’re not in the room you’ll be unprepared to safely and effectively do your job.
This recording will provide you with easy-to-follow instructions, proven tips, and how-to guidance for handling both expected and unexpected scenarios so you can successfully adapt your in-room practices to the telehealth space!
Get solutions for some of your biggest telehealth worries related to:
- Assessment and intake
- Professional boundary concerns
- Working with multicultural issues
- When you should NOT use telehealth services
Erase your worries, build your skill and confidence in working with clients through telehealth!
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine how to screen for suitable clients for telemental health services.
- Assess how to effectively manage boundary issues that might arise during telemental health services.
- Identify which therapeutic practices are conducive to telemental health services.
Outline
Screening and Suitability of the Client
- Benefits of Telehealth Services
- Evidenced-Based Research
- Patient and Setting Contraindications
- The Intake, Mental Status Exam, and Ongoing Evaluation
- Assessment with Clients
Professional Boundary Considerations
- For the Client
- For the Clinician
- Crossings versus Violations
- Recommendations for Maintaining Professional Boundaries
- Licensing Board Complaint Examples
Multicultural Considerations
- Issues to Consider
- Geography, Settings, Populations
- Seeking Guidance
Theoretical Considerations for Telehealth
- Evidence-Based Support
- Which Models Transition Well
Self-Care for the Clinician
- Ethics Application
- Causes of Burn Out
- Warning Signs in Therapists
- Characteristics of Effective Self-care
- Strategies and Techniques
- Resources
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Professionals
- Case Managers
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Teachers
- School Counselors
- School Psychologists
- School Social Workers
- Educational Paraprofessionals
- School Administrators
- Nurses and other Healthcare professionals
- Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children
Copyright :
05/21/2020
Opioid Use Disorder: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About One of the Most Dangerous and Lethal Drug Epidemics in American History
A national emergency…the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. The grim news surrounding opioid abuse continues to make the headlines.
But you know what lies behind the headlines. People. People whose lives have been devastated. Jail time and lost jobs. Shattered families. Early deaths and grieving families. People like you and I, prescribed a highly addictive substance to treat their chronic pain or after a minor medical procedure, who find themselves in a dangerous free fall that leaves their lives in ruin. People who walk through your door look to you for help.
Yet opioid disorders are substantially different from other addictions. Drug-driven brain change and physical dependence, coupled with a substance that perilously slows breathing and heart rate have created a deadly epidemic of unprecedented proportions. And many individuals with opioid use disorders have at least one co-occurring mental health problem that must be addressed in the effort to achieve and sustain recovery.
A one-size fits all approach to addiction simply won’t suffice. Watch this training and learn more about:
- The neuroscience behind the unique risks of opioid abuse
- The signs – when pain management turns into addiction
- Tailored strategies to overcome the barriers to opioid use disorder treatment
- Psychotherapeutic approaches grounded in evidence-based modalities
- Screening tools and treatment strategies for co-occurring disorders
- Details on how Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) can be combined with psychotherapy
Watch this critical training and get the tools you need to end the suffering and bring hope and healing to your clients!
Program Information
Objectives
- Describe the addictive properties and physical impacts of opioids on the human body.
- Utilize screening tools to identify disorders that may co-occur with opioid use disorder.
- Examine the latest research regarding the efficacy of Medication Assisted Treatment approaches and psychosocial approaches with opioid abusing clients.
Outline
The Unique Nature of Opioid Addiction
- Distinct risks of opioid abuse
- What neuroscience and biology reveal about opioid use
- Brain centers – the relationship between brain centers and pain
- The pleasure factor and the addicted brain
- Differences from other substance use disorders
- How chronic opioid use changes the brain
Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder
- Signs of opioid abuse and questions to ask
- CBT – recent studies
- Motivational Interviewing and commitment to change
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy – confidence and coping skills
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Family counseling
- How contingency management can be used with opioid use disorders
- Adjunct approaches
- Assessing and modifying treatment to ensure effectiveness
- Research limitations and risks of psychotherapeutic approaches
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
- Research and the latest findings
- Methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone
- Benefits, risks and drawbacks of MAT
- Role of the behavioral health clinician in MAT
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Substance Abuse Counselors
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Public Health Department Staff
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
- Physicians
Copyright :
12/12/2023