UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us on September 19th at NOOR Pasadena for

The Therapist as Ethicist:

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. 

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Don’t miss this chance to enhance your clinical practice!

Please check-in early as the presentation will begin promptly at 9. Breakfast will be served at 8:30.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the course, mental health professionals will be able to:

• Discuss four ways in which the enactment of traditional informed consent procedures can have alienating effects on clients, and how these procedures might be handled from a humanistic ethics standpoint.

• Explain what metacompetencies are and why they are important aspects of clinical competency that psychotherapists have an ethical duty to maintain.

• Describe how true multicultural competence requires awareness of how individualistic values can be different from the norms often adopted by clients from collectivist cultures and nondominant groups.

• Define the concept of “moral injury” and the potential ethical obligation to treat psychological problems as moral injuries.

Rose City Center is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. Rose City Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CPA OPD Provider Code R0S005