Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Exploring Ethical Obligations of Mental Health Professionals

Can mental health professionals work with clients who they know from outside of the job? Can you barter with clients for your services? 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, including telehealth and social media domains. This course will provide a framework to contemplate ethical dilemmas and make informed de...Read morecisions that insulate professionals from legal liability while protecting clients from harm.

THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED TO MEET THE NYS REQUIREMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO RECEIVE 3 HOURS OF TRAINING ON MAINTAINING APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES (effective April 2023)

THIS COURSE IS NOT NEW YORK STATE SPECIFIC, AND CAN SATISFY ETHICS AND BOUNDARIES TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY STATE. Less...

Learning Objectives

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.
Explain how to demonstrate that a client has not been exploited or coerced, intentionally or unintentionally.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of Mental Health Professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries (effective April 2023).

Learning Levels

All Levels

Friday, September 08, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT

EARN 3 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Kathryn Krase

Kathryn Krase is a social worker, lawyer, researcher, educator, and expert on professional ethics. She has significant experience as a family law practitioner, social work supervisor, along with more than 20 years of experience in faculty and administrative roles in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level social work programs in and around New York City. Dr. Krase is the Principal Consultant for Krase Consulting, in Brooklyn, New York, where she focuses on educating mental and physical health professionals on their general legal and ethical obligations.

Agenda

11:00am - 11:05am Introductions

11:05am - 11:35am Revisiting Ethics in Professional Practice

11:35am - 12:20pm Understanding Professional Boundaries

12:20pm - 12:30pm Drawing the Lines (Case Introductions)

12:30pm - 12:45pm Break

12:45pm - 1:45pm Drawing the Lines (Case Examples)

Conflict of interests
Dual Relationships

Family Relationships
Sexual Relationships
Other Relationships

Complicated Financial Interactions

Bartering for services
Other financial interactions

1:45pm - 2:05pm Protecting Yourself from Ethical & Legal Liability

2:05pm - 2:15pm Conclusion, Q&A

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association

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Association of Social Work Boards

Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Exploring Ethical Obligations of Mental Health Professionals, Course #4751, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by CE Learning Systems, LLC. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 03/14/2023 - 03/14/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits.

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NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals

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New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work

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CE Process Info

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