This type of consultation focuses on the personal/professional issues of an individual clinician, or the administrative or personnel issues within an agency, with a goal of understanding whether they are preventing good ethical practice or hindering ethical planning and decision making.
We can help you or your group reflect on your own issues, policies, and practices, and ethical dilemmas by asking you to consider personal and professional questions such as:
As an individual practitioner:
Am I somehow causing this particular ethical issue to arise so often in my practice?
If so, how am I “inviting this trouble” – – and why?
If not, since it predictably recurs, why am I so unprepared to respond when it arises?
Either way, how can I prepare to respond most ethically in the future?
Why am I reluctant to require my billing agent and janitor to sign confidentiality contracts?
Am I ethically and/or legally at risk if they breach the confidentiality of my patients?
Exactly what do I want each contract to require?
Why do I keep having problems with patients who push against the boundaries I set?
As an agency:
Are we somehow causing this particular ethical issue to arise repeatedly in this agency?
Are administrative issues or inappropriate policies obstructing good ethical practices?
Are all clinical personnel clearly trained about our ethical expectations?
If not, what training is needed?
Do our non-clinical staff breach confidentiality or create other ethical problems in our setting?
If so, what training is needed?
TO REQUEST CONSULTATION ASSISTANCE FROM DR. FISHER
ABOUT ETHICS-RELATED ISSUES IN THESE OR OTHER SITUATIONS, CONTACT:
Laura Skauge, Managing Director
434-971-1841
Office@CenterForEthicalPractice.org
The Center for Ethical Practice is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The Center for Ethical Practice has been approved by National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 6768). The Center is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
The Center for Ethical Practice (provider #1287), is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Center for Ethical Practice maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/21/2021-3/21/2024.