Workshop Archives

Listed in alphabetical order below are some of the workshops that have been presented in the past by The Center For Ethical Practice. If you would like us to conduct a workshop for your agency, organization, or practice group, you may want to review these topics, as well as those on the “Upcoming Workshops” page, to see which one best fits your training needs.

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• Planned and Unplanned Terminations - This workshop addresses questions such as these: What ethical and legal issues can arise around clinical endings? What should we consider when planning terminations? With forethought, can we avoid the ethical pitfalls that arise from unplanned terminations? What is the difference between "therapist-initiated termination" and "abandonment" ? What provisions should…
• Practical Ethics:Implementing the Ethical Decisions You Have Made -
• Professional Ethics: Two Developmental Perspectives - How have our professions' Ethical Standards changed across time? How have we reacted to those changes? How does our personal and profesasional development affect the ways we approach ethical issues or change the types of ethial dilemmas we are more likely to notice, encounter, or create?
• Promises Kept, Promises Broken - This workshop explores some of the loyalty conflicts and conflicts of interest inherent in clinical work and considers ways of reducing their impact. We will explore ethical, legal, clinical and personal implications of denying them or failing to explain them to patients, as well as resources for helping us respond…
• Protecting Confidentiality Rights - This workshop is based on a 6-step Ethical Practice Model that integrates ethical and legal obligations about confidentiality and guides decisions about disclosure
• Providing Ethical/Legal Training For Non-Clinical Staffin Virginia Mental Health Settings - Offered by popular demand, this workshop is appropriate both for clinicians and for their employees or contracted agents (e.g., billing agents). [Fee is discounted if employer and employee attend together.] Employee training rarely includes formal discussion of professional ethics. Yet, clinicians are ethically and legally responsible for the actions of…
• Reaching For The Ethical Ceiling - This workshop focuses not on the "ethical floor," as defined by the ethical mandates in each profession's ethics code, but instead on the "ethical ceiling" as defined by individual mental health professionals. Discussion will include issues such as how personal values fit into the ethical equation; ethical options if one's…
• Recognizing the Ethical ChallengesIn Your Own Setting -
• Record Keeping: Ethical and Practical Considerations - What guidelines should we follow for developing our policies about clinical records? This workshop covers some of the ethical, legal, and practical considerations.
• Record Keeping: Focusing on the Ethical Underpinnings - In the midst of worrying about the record-keeping reuirements imposed by state laws, HIPAA, managed care contracts, agency policies, etc., and with our eye on liability, are we losing our ethical perspective? We will cover ownership, content, storage, retention time, and other practical issues, but our primary focus will be…
• Replacing “Who is the client?”With a Different Ethical Question - This familiar question asks for a singular answer. That may be important as a clinical or legal question, and it is sometimes required as a reimbursement question. But as an ethical question, it is misleading and problematic. It is important for you (and for those you supervise) to understand why…
• Retiring, Relocating, or Closing a Practice: Ethical & Practical Considerations -
• Revising Our Language About Informed Consent -
• Self-Care for Mental Health Professionals -
• Serious Conversation About Ethical Dilemmas - This workshop is structured as an interactive advanced seminar. Participants bring the "hypothetical" ethical dilemmas. We provide handouts of ethical and legal resource materials and an Ethical Decision-Making Model with which to practice resolving the dilemmas.
• Social Media & Electronic Technology: What are the Ethical Issues? -
• Subpoenas & Court Orders - What is the legal difference between an attorney-issued "discovery subpoena" and a judge's "court order" to produce information? What are the ethical implications of this legal difference? Can you file a "motion to quash" a subpoena? Should you? Will you agree to be an "expert witness" or only a "fact…
• The Ethics of “Conditional” Confidentiality -
• Therapist Self-Disclosure -
• Therapists’ Dutiesvs. Patients’ Responsibilities -