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Online Course Title: Ethics IV Part A Boundaries
  Category: 7
  Credits: 1.5
 
 
  Objectives: • Deepen their sensitivity to boundary issues. • Learn how to lower risk of censure by understanding issues regarding boundaries. • Clarify issues of disclosure, confidentiality, and boundaries in custody evaluations. • Critically reflect on their own performance as ethical clinicians. • Learn how to identify and resolve key issues regarding boundaries.
  Description: There are many situations and traditions and practices in other forms of therapy in which certain boundaries are murky. There is a wide range of "boundary crossings" that are not violations and may be sensitive, sensible, and humane, and therefore justified and consistent with good care. The speakers in this program address when is these boundary crossings are negligence, justifying licensing sanctions and financial settlements, and when they are good care. This course is compiled of the following interviews: Barbara Herlihy, Ph.D. Counseling Psychology, "Boundaries" presents an overview and discusses boundaries in Clinical Practice. Ted Remley, LPC, Ph.D., Counselor Education, "Boundaries and Confidentiality" discusses confidentiality in clinical practice and present an alternative to the extreme positions of documenting everything in the ultimate of self-protection, and revealing nothing, in the interest of patient protection. Brandt Caudill, JD. "Boundaries and Custody Evaluations" discusses the problem of Boundaries in custody evaluations. This is a major source of ethical complaints.
    Approval Bodies:
  • Professional Development
  • Florida Dept. of Health (Board of Social Work, Marriage & Family, Mental Health Counseling)
  • NAADAC, National Association for Addiction Professionals
  • National Board for Certified Counselors
  • Florida Board of Nursing
  • Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
  • California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
  • CAADE - California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators
  • Connecticut Certification Board, Inc.
  • Pennsylvania Certification Board
  • Florida Board of Psychology
  • California Board of Registered Nursing
  • California Association of DUI Treatment Programs (CADTP)
  • Illinois Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association, Inc. 03/22-24 (BE).