Living Our Codes: Boundaries and Ethics with Youth and Families

Instructor: Dan Gilmore, MA, LPC

A Live, Interactive Webconference
September 18, 2024, via Zoom Interactive Webconference
8:25am-12:35pm

Living out one’s ethical code is a challenge when a practitioner wants to engage youth and their family in a therapeutic context. The complexity of interactions and boundaries can confuse any practitioner, especially when conducting services in the community or home setting. Living Our Codes looks at ethics in the context of family therapy and how to use established decision-making strategies to maintain professional integrity. An emerging focus for ethical practice is establishing the practitioner’s self-care routines as an essential component for strong therapeutic alliances and outcomes. The workshop will help practitioners examine how self-care impacts their ability to create strong alliances while maintaining professional boundaries.

As a result of participating in this training, attendees will be able to:

  1. Differentiate between ethics, law and morality
  2. Demonstrate the use of Rossey’s 5 Steps to Ethical Decision Making.
  3. Distinguish the difference between boundary crossing and boundary violations.
  4. Summarize the importance of self-care in establishing a therapeutic alliance with youth and families

Agenda

  • 8:25am-10:30 am: Objectives 1 & 2
  • 10:30am-10:40am: Break
  • 10:40am-12:35pm: Objective 3 & 4

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

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