The Therapist as Ethicist: When Professional & Humanistic Ethics Collide

NOTE: This is an IN-PERSON event in Pasadena, CA that includes breakfast and four (4) Continuing Education Credits.

Highlights:

• Learn how personal ethical integrity can be mapped onto one’s professional identity and used as a guiding therapeutic sensibility for therapists
• Appreciate the therapeutic value of “boundary crossings” (i.e., texting; handshakes, hugs, and embraces; gift giving and receiving; self-disclosure) that seem unprofessional.

Arm yourself with knowledge of the laws and standards governing the ethical practice of providing therapy. This event fulfills the Board of Psychology's 4-hour Law and Ethics CPD requirement.

This course will cover a host of ways in which psychotherapists are susceptible to compromising the quality of care offered to clients when they adhere to narrow definitions of professional ethics in the everyday world of clinical practice. Attendees will be exposed to how overly formal and bureaucratized ways of handling matters like informed consent for treatment; risk-management procedures; and, so-called “boundary crossing” gestures like therapist self-disclosure, gift giving and receiving, non-sexual touch, out-of-office therapist-client contact, can erode the therapeutic alliance. A humanistic model of ethical care will be mapped out along with case studies to enhance an appreciation of its practical benefits.

Enjoy a selection of citrus juices, breakfast pastries, fresh fruit, and hot beverage service in the gorgeous Ella Ballroom.

Registration begins at 8AM. Please arrive and check-in early as the presentation will begin promptly at 9.