Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Exploring Ethical Obligations of Mental Health Professionals
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Mental health professionals are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but the obligation isn’t always so easy to discern. This course brings real-world context to ethical concerns often experienced by professionals in practice in maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
This course will provide a framework to contemplate ethical dilemmas and make informed decisions that insulate professionals from legal liability while protecting clients from harm.
IMPORTANT: THIS COURSE IS NOT NEW YORK STATE-SPECIFIC, AND CAN SATISFY ETHICS AND BOUNDARIES TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY STATE.
Course Goals and Learning Objectives:
This course aims to bring context to ethical concerns often experienced by behavioral/physical health professionals in practice with individual clients/patients.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will:
- Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental health professionals to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with their clients.
- Define dual relationships.
- Apply a framework to avoid dual relationships whenever possible.
- Apply a framework to minimize potential harm to clients and the professional whenever dual relationships are not avoidable.
- Describe how to demonstrate that a client has not been exploited or coerced, intentionally or unintentionally.
Tuition:
- $80 -Registration Fee
- $60 -Alumni, Field Instructor, FFL, Current AUSSW Adjunct Fee
- $45 -Veterans Fee
- Current Adelphi University Students: FREE, with code
Faculty Biography:
Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W.
A Principal Consultant with Krase Consultant, Krase is an expert on professional ethics and the intersection of ethics with legal responsibilities. She has years of experience consulting with government and community-based organizations to develop policy & practice standards.
IMPORTANT: To receive approved continuing education credits, participants must attend the entire training or workshop and submit a completed evaluation form.
Credentialing Information
- CEs: 3
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Cancellation Policy
Please note that we are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made within seven business days of the event or for no-shows. However, if you notify us at least 24 hours in advance, we can issue a credit toward a future workshop. No credit will be provided for cancellations made less than 24 hours before the event