3 CEU credit event (Category 1). Avoiding the Risks of Sexual Misconduct and Other Ethical Violations in Clinical Practice
About this Event

* This is a video recording of a continuing education session held on January 13, 2023.

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Description:

Therapists are constantly building, nurturing, evaluating, and navigating ongoing relationships with their clients. Due to the potential for boundaries to become blurred, therapists must be mindful of, and recognize, what constitutes crossing clinical relationship boundaries. This workshop will review relevant ethical standards, the types of dual relationship and boundary violations that tend to prompt the various licensing boards to take disciplinary action, ways to avoid liability, common exclusions in professional liability insurance policies, and potential consequences for inappropriate relationships with clients.

Speaker Bio:

Matthew Reader is the Clinical Director at CentrePointe Counseling. Matt has over 30 years of experience in individual and couples counseling, focusing on a variety of therapeutic issues, including childhood sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, relational conflict, and sexual addictions. He also leads workshops and training classes focusing on developing healthy relationships. He received his Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will build on their current clinical experience in identifying and avoiding ethical violations.

2. Participants will understand the complexities of boundaries in clinical relationships.

3. Participants will understand relevant ethical standards, the types of dual relationship and boundary violations that tend to prompt the various licensing boards to take disciplinary action, and ways to avoid liability.

4. Participants will be able to describe three types of unethical violations and potential consequences for inappropriate relationships with clients.