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Digital Seminar

Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics: Clinical Strategies to Prevent Burnout, Uphold Personal Values & Adhere to Ethical Guidelines


Speaker:
Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
Jun 16, 2025
Product Code:
POS150179
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

We spend our days taking care of others, then wonder why we are burnt out, sore, can’t sleep, and feel so irritable ….

But here’s the catch: when we neglect our own well-being, it’s not just us who suffer. Ethical missteps, poor judgment, and even client care can be at risk.

We know the importance of self-care, but often lack the time and skills to rejuvenate ourselves. Yet it is essential to learn and master these vital skills. This course goes beyond self-care basics. You’ll gain practical tools to set firm, ethical boundaries, manage risk effectively, and protect both yourself and your practice.

So watch ethics expert Adrianne Sturtevant LICSW, who’s given countless trainings across the country on everything you need to know about when to say yes and how to say no. Through enlightening discussion, engaging activities, and practical skill building, she’ll show you how boundaries and self-care are interrelated and give you the tools you need to be compliant with ethical guidelines that mandate healthy self-care.

You’ll walk away knowing how to:

  • Set and maintain boundaries with confidence
  • Apply ethical decision-making by understanding how personal values shape professional ethics
  • Navigate the latest ethics codes and guidelines on boundaries and self-care
  • Integrate boundary-setting into your treatment planning for improved client outcomes
  • Use proven techniques to prevent burnout and sustain long-term professional well-being

And so much more!

Leave this training feeling refreshed and reinvigorated, with a personalized ethical self-care plan you can rely on for years to come.

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Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

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Speaker

Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW's Profile

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Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience across a diverse range of therapeutic settings. She earned her Master of Social Work from San Diego University, where she focused her thesis on predictive factors for college graduation among low-income youth. Currently, Adrianne operates an online private practice, delivering evidence-based therapy to adolescents and adults in multiple states. In addition, she consults with organizations seeking to enhance their telehealth services by developing infrastructure to support clinician recruitment and multi-state operations.

Adrianne’s extensive experience prior to her telehealth practice includes work in emergency foster care, wilderness therapy, and community-based settings, where she has developed and implemented clinical processes for remote teams, trained and supervised staff, and provided evidence-based healthcare. She attributes her career success to maintaining healthy boundaries that allow her to balance professional and personal commitments, including participating in endurance events such as Ironman-distance triathlons. With a robust clinical background and a passion for promoting mental health, Adrianne remains a valuable resource for her clients and a leader in the mental health community.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Adrianne Sturtevant maintains a private practice and has an employment with MDLive. She receives a speaking honorarium from Сòòò½ÊÓÆµ. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Adrianne Sturtevant has no relevant non-financial relationships.


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Objectives

  1. Determine the importance of both personal and professional boundaries for self-care.
  2. Identify how the NASW, APA, AAMFT and ACA Code of Ethics applies to boundary setting and self-care in the outpatient clinical setting.
  3. Develop strategies that minimize burnout.
  4. Develop a self-care plan that supports healthy boundaries.
  5. Analyze predictive factors of burnout.
  6. Choose strategies to communicate personal and professional boundaries.

Outline

Boundaries: The What and the Why
  • Personal v. professional boundaries
  • Types of professional boundaries
    • Self-disclosure
    • Dual relationships
    • Telehealth
    • Documentation
    • Countertransference
  • Law vs code of ethics
  • How the latest codes and standards inform boundaries
  • Duty to report colleagues – importance of this ethical standard
  • Identify personal values and how they related to boundaries
  • Connections between personal values and professional ethics
  • What to do if your values don’t align with ethical standards
  • Protect your clients: Self-determination, values, and more
  • Protect yourself: Burnout, ethical and legal obligations, and more
Ethical Self-care and its Importance for the Modern Clinician
  • How investing in self-care is upholding our professional ethics
  • Compare areas from the code of ethics (NASW, APA, ACA, AAMFT)
  • Difference in professional self-care and personal self-care
  • Pillars of self-care: Emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual, professional, and relational
  • Build a self-care plan to support healthy boundaries
  • Teach boundaries to clients as a form of self-care
    • How and when to say no
    • Listen to client’s needs rather than imposing our own
    • Teach clients reframing of obligations as a choice
    • Identify client values to facilitate their building their own boundaries
  • Recognize and manage transference and countertransference
  • When to refer out a client due to transference issues
  • Self-care specifically for therapists
    • Eliminate unethical dual relationships
    • Prevent burnout
    • Have structure of healthy boundaries around work
    • Support colleagues in being ethical
    • Accept or reject employment based on your needs
    • Supervision and peer support
    • Continuing education
    • Moral disengagement as result of poor work environment
Prevent Burnout
  • Predictive & protective factors of burnout
  • How environment of workplace contributes
  • Strategies for preventing burnout
    • Personal strategies
    • Seeking support
    • Use stress inventory
    • Time management
  • Explore what boundaries are needed to prevent burnout
Integrate Boundary Teaching Into Treatment Planning
  • Limitations, risks, and scope of practice
  • Examples on how to phrase treatment goals
  • Recognize personal boundaries within the clinical relationship
  • Use values and boundaries work with clients
  • Stay objective when our values don’t match our client’s values
  • Relevant ethical codes and us working in our client’s best interests
  • Intervention strategies if a client’s views are harmful vs. when they are different from our own
  • Communication skills for holding clients to established boundaries
  • Framework for interactions with clients
    • Consent and other paperwork that starts conversation
    • Boundaries on how and when to communicate
    • Teach clients about emergency services
    • Recognize differences in client needs without compromising self or acting unfairly to others
    • Modes of communication and limitations of each

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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