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Digital Seminar

New Frontiers of Clinical Ethics: Protect Your Practice in the Digital Age


Faculty:
April Crable
Duration:
5 Hours 27 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Aug 31, 2016
Product Code:
WDS020594
Brochure Code:
WDBHBOUND2
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.

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Description

Protect Your Patients and Your License

This comprehensive seminar tackles modern ethical issues related to distance therapy, social networking, and electronic data, as well as everyday situations involving confidentiality, disclosure, dual relationships, high-risk cases, and more. Examine the ethical impact of new technology on clinical work, explore developing ethical concerns, and learn how to improve your clinical and administrative protocols to keep pace with changing standards. Finally, take home an effective ethical decision-making model designed to help you keep ahead of rapidly evolving ethical issues. Dr. April Crable incorporates didactic instruction, experiential learning, and interpersonal processing to empower you to protect your clients and yourself in your clinical practice

 


Course Content

 

Making Ethical Decisions with current and evolving issues

  • Ethical decision-making model
  • Moral principles
  • Framework for addressing ethical dilemmas
  • Law vs. codes
  • Cultural considerations

 

Technology         

  • How to incorporate technology with distance counseling
  • Using social networking, email, texting, electronic data
  • Client protection
  • Review of counselor liability
  • Understanding state laws versus respective code of ethics
  • Coaching versus counseling
  • Out of state distance counseling
  • Electronic data and documentation
  • Confidentiality

 

SUPERVISION

  • Reporting/addressing ethical violations of health professionals
  • Early Termination with supervisee
  • Dual Relationships
  • Supervision models: are they important?
  • Supervision liability insurance: do you need it?

 

TERMINATION

  • Loss of objectivity
  • Outstanding payments
  • Value-based referrals
  • Early termination
  • Practitioner safety
  • Loss of insurance
  • Competence

 

Boundaries

  • Boundaries defined
  • Importance of maintaining boundaries
  • Vulnerability
    • Practitioner
    • Client
  • Practitioner responsibility
  • Appropriate vs. inappropriate self-disclosure
  • Boundary errors
  • Counter-transference and transference

 

MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIPS

  • Sexual attraction
  • Sexual Relations with past and current clients
  • Friendships with clients
  • Attending client engagements
  • Receiving gifts/giving gifts
  • Unavoidable dual relationships
  • Addressing multiple relationships

 

High-Risk Cases

 

suicidal and homicidal clients

 

PRACTIONER IMPAIRMENT

  • Preventing burnout
  • Gatekeeping our colleagues
  • Self-care plan: do you have one?
  • When to seek counseling
  • Counselor awareness/personal inventory

 

CONFIDENTIALITY

  • Duty to warn
  • Limitations
  • Informed consent
  • Death of a practitioner: who is your record keeper?
  • Death of a client
  • Consultation
  • Communicable diseases

 

LEGAL ISSUES IN COUNSELING

  • Malpractice lawsuits
  • Court-ordered clients
  • Addressing complaints/investigations
  •  Subpoenas

Credits

Handouts

Faculty

April Crable Related seminars and products

Ph.D, LPC, CSAC , NCC


April Crable, Ph.D, LPC, CSAC , NCC, is a licensed professional counselor with experience providing counseling services related to crisis intervention, substance abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and psychiatric and residential group care. Additionally, she provides clinical supervision to graduate students seeking licensure. Dr. Crable’s research interests include counselor education and supervision, counseling ethics, sexual abuse, and trauma within military families. She earned her Doctorate in Counseling Education and Supervision and her Masters in Community Counseling from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

Target Audience

Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Case Managers, Psychiatric Nurses, Pastoral Counselors, Risk Managers, Mental Health Administrators

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