Full Course Description
Ethics: Current Issues and Practical Responses
OUTLINE
A Process-Oriented Approach to Managing Ethical Issues
- Early identification
- Engage clients and others in resolving ethical issues
- Manage ethical, moral, legal and personal obligations
An Interest-Based Approach to Managing Ethical Issues
- Focus on interests rather than positions
- Enhance communication and trust
- Identify common ground and valid differences
- Generate options to maximize benefits and mitigate ethical risks
- Separate the person from the problem
- Apply objective criteria
- Obtain commitments
Using Communication Technologies
- Rationale for using videoconferencing, email, smart phones, online social networking and other communication technologies
- Identify risks relating to confidentiality, documentation, client safety, maintaining appropriate boundaries and informed consent
- Manage ethical risks and promote the highest standards of practice
Clinicians in Court
- Identify situations when clinicians may be called to testify or produce evidence
- Balance client, clinician and third party interests in confidentiality, privilege, due process, safety and informed consent
- Respond to client requests, informal attorney requests and subpoenas
OBJECTIVES
- Use a strategic framework to recognize, articulate, analyze and resolve ethical problems and dilemmas that may arise in clinical practice.
- Identify and manage risk factors that may lead to boundary violations with clients.
- Apply an interest-based approach to resolve ethical conflicts with clients and co-professionals.
- Recognize and manage the ethical risks of using communication technologies, including issues related to confidentiality, documentation, boundary crossings, client safety, client exploitation, cross-border services, professional competence and informed consent.
- Instruct clients in a full and frank discussion of ethical issues pertaining to confidentiality, privilege and subpoenas to court.
- Respond effectively to attorneys who may request client records or participation of the clinician in court-related processes.
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Objectives
- Use a strategic framework to recognize, articulate, analyze and resolve ethical problems and dilemmas that may arise in clinical practice.
- Identify and manage risk factors that may lead to boundary violations with clients.
- Apply an interest-based approach to resolve ethical conflicts with clients and co-professionals.
- Recognize and manage the ethical risks of using communication technologies, including issues related to confidentiality, documentation, boundary crossings, client safety, client exploitation, cross-border services, professional competence and informed consent.
- Instruct clients in a full and frank discussion of ethical issues pertaining to confidentiality, privilege and subpoenas to court.
- Respond effectively to attorneys who may request client records or participation of the clinician in court-related processes.
Outline
A Process-Oriented Approach to Managing Ethical Issues
- Early identification
- Engage clients and others in resolving ethical issues
- Manage ethical, moral, legal and personal obligations
An Interest-Based Approach to Managing Ethical Issues
- Focus on interests rather than positions
- Enhance communication and trust
- Identify common ground and valid differences
- Generate options to maximize benefits and mitigate ethical risks
- Separate the person from the problem
- Apply objective criteria
- Obtain commitments
Using Communication Technologies
- Rationale for using videoconferencing, email, smart phones, online social networking and other communication technologies
- Identify risks relating to confidentiality, documentation, client safety, maintaining appropriate boundaries and informed consent
- Manage ethical risks and promote the highest standards of practice
Clinicians in Court
- Identify situations when clinicians may be called to testify or produce evidence
- Balance client, clinician and third party interests in confidentiality, privilege, due process, safety and informed consent
- Respond to client requests, informal attorney requests and subpoenas
Copyright :
21/03/2016
The Ethics in End-of-Life Decisions
Program Information
Objectives
- Discuss a philosophy of care when functional recovery is no longer possible.
- Identify a model of decision making for judgments related to treatment options, regulated by the ethical principles of shared decision making and mutual respect.
- Describe a communication structure for delivering “bad news” to patients and families.
- Integrate a philosophy of limits to care with personal feelings of loss and failure.
Outline
The Ethical Principles Guiding End-of-Life Decision Making
- Beneficence, nonmaleficence, and autonomy at end-of-life
- Futility - when is it time to “call” the limits to treatment?
- Extraordinary Means and Heroic Measures - cure vs. care, salvage treatments
- Case Studies, the Law, and Court Rulings: Terrie Sciavo and Karen Ann Quinlan and their impact on decision making
Communication Strategies for Dealing with “Bad News”
- A systems approach to patients and their families
- Incorporation of “bad news” into treatment planning and palliative care
- Difficulties with advance directives - who makes the decisions in ambiguous situations?
- Identifying personal, cultural, and religious biases impacting treatment
Rationing and Inequities in Access to Healthcare
- The impact of the Affordable Care Act
- Distributive justice, heroic care, and futility
The Advanced Illness Coordinated Model
Copyright :
09/03/2015
The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy & Play Therapy
Program Information
Objectives
- State 10 different types of touch that can occur in a therapy session.
- Demonstrate four ways to evaluate for a child’s psychosocial experiences related to touch.
- Describe how to apply 5 therapeutic interventions to handle in-the-moment ethical dilemmas in a play therapy session.
Outline
The Ethics of Touch in Context
- Clinical concerns of touch in child psychotherapy and play therapy
- No touch policies-more harm than good?
- Types of touch: greeting, accidental, task-oriented, attentional, and more
Assessment for Psychosocial Experiences of Touch
- 4 Child Drawing Assessments
- Rating scale questionnaires
- Parent’s perceptions of child’s touch experiences
- Teacher Touch Observation Rating Scale for child
Interventions and Case Examples: Ethical dilemmas of Touch- Responses, Interventions and Boundary Setting
- Risk/benefit decision making
- Child hits/slaps therapist
- Inappropriate touching of therapist
- Child asks to be touched inappropriately
- Child asks for appropriate touch
- Specific populations
- Infants-behavioral cue indications
- Teenagers
- Attachment Disorders
- Autism/Sensory Processing Disorders
- Sexually traumatized children
- 10+ Recommendations for working with abused children
- Engaging parents in problem touch occurrences
20+ Top Ethical Touch Best Practice Guidelines
- Practitioner Touch Awareness Questionnaire
- Informed Consent-for therapy approaches that use touch
- Informed Consent-Mandated Reporter of all forms of abuse
- Unethical Forms of Touch
- And many more…
Copyright :
06/08/2015
The Interface of Ethics and Technology
Objectives
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Discuss an overview of social work in the digital world.
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Explore ethical issues concerning the meaning of relationship in professional work, practitioner competence, privacy and confidentiality, and professional boundaries.
Outline
Program Information
Objectives
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Discuss an overview of social work in the digital world.
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Explore ethical issues concerning the meaning of relationship in professional work, practitioner competence, privacy and confidentiality, and professional boundaries.
Outline
Copyright :
24/07/2014