Online Learning

Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making in Behavioral Health: How to Practice in a Safe and Ethical Way

Faculty:: Linda Cherrey Reeser, PhD
Duration:: 6 Hours 04 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Original Program Date :: Sep 30, 2016
SKU:: POS049770
Media Type:: Online Learning

Price
R3,219.00 - Price

Description

Ethical decision-making model to resolve or alleviate ethical dilemmas
Recognize and prevent problematic dual relationships and boundary transgressions
Identify ethical issues concerning confidentiality, informed consent and self-determination, recognize their limits, and employ safeguards in practice
Respond to subpoenas

As a mental health professional, you are confronted on a regular basis with the challenges of complex ethical and legal issues. Knowing and applying an ethical decision-making framework will provide you with tools to:

manage ethical issues in a systematic way
separate facts from assumptions and biases
track the potential harms of each course of action
formulate an ethical rationale for selecting the least harmful option
decide on the most appropriate way to implement your choice
assess what went wrong, or could go wrong, so you can prevent it from happening

During this program you will learn a unique decision-making model that does not tell you which ethical principle is most important (as do some other models), but provides you with options and raises critical questions to help you decide which principle trumps others. Learning this model will also help you to formulate reasons for choosing how to intervene with other professionals or clients in an ethical and safe way. This reflective model will enable you to be the proactive practitioner you want to be!

Through case examples, you will be able to apply the skills right away! Case examples will focus on the issues of confidentiality, informed consent, boundaries and dual relationships and self-determination.

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Common Ethical Issues

Professional obligations vs clients’ rights
Conflicting obligations and expectations
Professional truth telling to clients
Distribution of limited resources
Professional adherence to regulations and policies that may harm clients

Ethical Codes

Characteristics, functions, and limits
The intersection of the law and ethical codes: congruence and conflict

Defensive and Safe Practice

Practice according to the law
Steps to reduce legal vulnerability
Respond to subpoenas
Four elements of malpractice
Responding to impaired, incompetent, and/ or unethical behavior of professionals
Duty to warn law

Practice Ethical Self-Reflection

How demographic characteristics, values and beliefs influence ethical decision making
Prioritization of ethical principles
Ability to tolerate morally ambiguous situations

Apply a Model of Ethical Decision Making

Discern the facts
Assess ethical principles in conflict
What may or did go wrong and why
Short and long-term goals and their compatibility
Assess the harms of choosing different options
Develop strategies to prevent or rectify errors

Confidentiality and Informed Consent

Distinguish confidentiality, privacy and privilege
Confidentiality violations and consequences
Limits to confidentiality
Situations that require informed consent
Limits of informed consent
Case examples and small group discussion

Dual Relationship, Boundary Errors and Ethical Dilemmas

Signs of possible problems
Set clear, appropriate and culturally sensitive boundaries
Case examples and small group discussions
Prevention of harmful dual relationships or other boundary violations

Self-Determination

Conditions for self-determination
Limits or interference
Case examples and small group discussion

OBJECTIVES

Identify ethical and legal responsibilities in practice.
Use an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve or prevent ethical problems and dilemmas.
Recognize common boundary and dual relationship issues/dilemmas that emerge in practice.
Identify common ethical issues and explain how they affect practice.
Identify conditions and limits for self-determination.
Recognize confidentiality and informed consent issues and their limits.
Respond effectively to subpoenas and duty to warn law.

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General Credits

This course is available for 6.0 total CPDs.

The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.

As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.

Florida Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.

Handouts

	Manual (0.82 MB)	44 Pages	Available after Purchase

Faculty

Linda Cherrey Reeser, PhD Related seminars and products

Western Michigan University

Linda Cherrey Reeser, PhD, is a licensed social worker who has been teaching and consulting in Michigan for over 30 years. Dr. Reeser’s areas of professional expertise include ethics, professionalism, field education, activism and social change.

Dr. Reeser wrote a book on ethics with Dr. Wade Robison, Ethical Decision Making in Social Work (Allyn & Bacon). She is a long-standing member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and has served on the Michigan Chapter Board as well as the Michigan NASW Ethics Committee.

Dr. Reeser is a full professor in the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Michigan, where she serves as the coordinator of the BSW program, and has been teaching undergraduate and graduate social work students for 34 years.

She received the Teaching Excellence Award from her college and the NASW Michigan Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the social work profession. She has been sought out by lawyers for her expertise in ethics. Her practice experience is in criminal justice and substance abuse.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Linda Cherrey Reeser is a professor at Western Michigan University, School of Social Work. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Nonfinancial: Linda Cherrey Reeser has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

Utilize an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve and/or prevent ethical problems and dilemmas in your clinical practice.
Communicate how an understanding of common boundary and dual relationship issues/dilemmas can help you maintain appropriate relationships with your clients.
Determine conditions and limits of self-determination in order to avoid negatively impacting the therapeutic alliance.
Identify ethical issues concerning confidentiality and informed consent, recognize their limits and employ safeguards in your clinical practice.
Analyze the limits of confidentiality as it relates to duty to warn law in clinical practice.
Recognize ethical challenges you should consider when responding to subpoenas that request disclosure of client records.

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