Ethics & Cultural Competency Training Bundle: Up-to-Date Practices and Clinical Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals

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Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Clinical Practice

As clinicians we come face to face with ethical “gray areas” daily and often skate around potential issues that could put our businesses, clinical work, or clients in jeopardy.

And of these “gray areas,” boundary issues and dual relationship challenges are a leading cause of lawsuits and licensing board complaints filed against behavioral health practitioners.

In this training you’ll receive a truly expert analysis of a range of boundary issues that behavioral health practitioners encounter. From the ethics of intimate relationships with clients and former clients; the healthy parameters of practitioners’ self-disclosure; boundary challenges when working and living in small and rural communities to the use of nontraditional interventions and so much more!

So watch ethics expert and former chair of the task force that wrote the NASW Code of Ethics, Frederic Reamer, PhD, as he provides guidance to behavioral health practitioners who grapple with these challenging situations and their aftermath. Dr. Reamer will cover a myriad of ethical dilemmas that behavioral health practitioners face in their careers and provides practical ethics-informed advice and actionable solutions. You’ll also learn:

Purchase today and avoid ethical entanglements that risk your professional liability!

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Objectives

  1. Identify the nature of boundary issues and dual relationship challenges in the behavioral health professions.
  2. Explain patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships.
  3. Recognize high-risk circumstances that can lead to problematic boundaries and dual relationships.
  4. Apply ethical standards governing boundaries and dual relationships.
  5. Implement protocols to prevent harm to clients.
  6. Implement protocols to prevent litigation and licensing board complaints related to professional boundaries and dual relationships.

Outline

The nature of boundary issues and dual relationships in the behavioral health professions: Code of Ethics

Boundary issues in the digital age

Patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships

Ethical standards: Boundaries and Dual Relationships

Risk Management Strategies: Protecting Clients and Practitioners

Target Audience

Copyright : 11/15/2023

Social Justice, Ethics and Multicultural Issues for Mental Health Professionals

Effective treatment focuses on the whole person. The thoughts, behaviors and sufferings of your clients are intimately connected to the social and cultural context in which they live.

Without seeing your clients in their entirety, you could fail to recognize the unique challenges, stressors, barriers and burdens that can lie at the heart of their mental health issues.  But even therapists can feel uncomfortable with conversations surrounding racial, cultural, sexual, economic and religious issues. And cultural stigmas and distrust born from societal power dynamics can cause some clients to hold back in therapy or leave treatment early.

This inspiring class will open your eyes to the struggles of disenfranchised or marginalized populations, and give you practical and innovative techniques so you can comfortably and successfully work with them in treatment.  You’ll leave able to more capably assess clients, avoid cultural misunderstandings that can harm the therapeutic alliance, and gain the trust you need to achieve truly transformative results.

It’s time to be the change you wish to see.

Purchase today and feel the satisfaction and joy that come with being a better advocate for clients individually, communally and globally!

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Objectives

  1. Argue how social class and race can impact clinical assessment and treatment of mental health issues.
  2. Conclude how the values and biases of clinicians can influence treatment and therapeutic outcomes.
  3. Appraise how mental health clinicians can better understand clients within their social and cultural environments to avoid misunderstanding that can harm the therapeutic alliance.
  4. Demonstrate how clinicians can more comfortably and capably discuss issues surrounding race and economic issues that clients can be reluctant to talk about.
  5. Determine how clinicians can help clients overcome cultural shame for improved engagement in mental health treatment.
  6. Devise two ways clinicians can reduce barriers to mental health treatment that face minority groups and disenfranchised people. 

Outline

How Client Identity and Systemic Dynamics Impact Assessment and Treatment

Ethics and the Equal Treatment of Clients Clinical Strategies: That Meet Clients Where They Are: Proven Approaches for Greater Empathy and Effectiveness Be a Change Agent: How to Advocate for Your Clients Individually, Communally, and Globally Case Scenarios

Target Audience

Copyright : 03/31/2023

Ethical Standards for Culturally Competent Practice

Mental health professionals have an ethical responsibility to make every reasonable effort to reduce bias, prejudice and discrimination based on a variety of cultural similarities and differences.  Unfortunately, unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to ethical dilemmas and disconnected personal and professional relationships.  In addition, professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear of not knowing enough about other cultures to try to effectively support those different than themselves.  This session equips helping professionals in their effort to meet and maintain ethical standards by reducing the likelihood of unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings as well as repair relationships damaged by cultural offenses.  This relationship-focused session will provide practical language and strategies for reducing tensions and perceived barriers and helping strengthen cross-cultural relationships.

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Objectives

  1. Develop an attainable goal for ethical cultural competency in cross-cultural professional relationships.
  2. Use healthy diversity language to avoid division and increase cohesion among culturally diverse families and communities.
  3. Utilize strategies for overcoming common barriers to ethical culturally competent mental health care.

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Target Audience

Copyright : 02/24/2023

A Shame-Free Path to Cultural Competence: Rising to the Challenge

Even with an increased appreciation of the importance of multicultural awareness, many therapists feel confused about how to work effectively with clients from different cultural backgrounds. Too often, fear of even inadvertently offending a client constrains them and flattens the therapeutic experience. Fortunately, most therapists already possess the tools they need to reduce misunderstandings and repair relationships when unintentional transgressions occur. Exploring cultural issues beyond ethnicity (gender, religion, age, etc.), this recording will offer practical strategies to help you feel more comfortable in your ability to meet the needs of whomever you have the opportunity to serve. You’ll discover: 

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Objectives

  1. Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offenses in the therapeutic relationship.  
  2. Appraise a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on treatment.  
  3. Determine how to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions.  
  4. Evaluate ways to increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures. 

Outline

Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offenses in the therapeutic relationship. 

Identify a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on treatment.  Describe how to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions.  Explore ways to increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures. 

Target Audience

Copyright : 03/20/2021

Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence

The thought of a client dying by suicide can keep even experienced therapists up at night. Moreover, fear of malpractice liability often leads them to practice defensively, resulting in unnecessary hospitalizations that can significantly hurt therapy outcomes. This recording features evidence-based innovations in the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal risk. Learn new suicide-focused clinical skills, such as how to evaluate different suicidal states and match them with the most effective interventions and treatments in face-to-face work or using telehealth. You’ll discover:

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Objectives

  1. Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states.
  2. Appraise risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk.
  3. Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states.
  4. Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes.
  5. Utilize practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability using face-to-face practice or telehealth.

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Target Audience

Copyright : 03/13/2022

Telehealth

As a mental health clinician, you’ve got a great “feel” for in-person therapy. And you’re skilled in using all your senses and intuitions during face-to-face assessment and treatment.

And while providing telehealth services in a must in today’s world, you worry that if you’re not in the room you’ll be unprepared to safely and effectively do your job.

This recording will provide you with easy-to-follow instructions, proven tips, and how-to guidance for handling both expected and unexpected scenarios so you can successfully adapt your in-room practices to the telehealth space!

Get solutions for some of your biggest telehealth worries related to:

Erase your worries, build your skill and confidence in working with clients through telehealth!

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Objectives

  1. Determine how to screen for suitable clients for telemental health services.
  2. Assess how to effectively manage boundary issues that might arise during telemental health services.
  3. Identify which therapeutic practices are conducive to telemental health services.

Outline

Screening and Suitability of the Client

Professional Boundary Considerations Multicultural Considerations Theoretical Considerations for Telehealth  Self-Care for the Clinician 

Target Audience

Copyright : 05/21/2020

Opioid Use Disorder: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About One of the Most Dangerous and Lethal Drug Epidemics in American History

A national emergency…the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. The grim news surrounding opioid abuse continues to make the headlines.

But you know what lies behind the headlines. People. People whose lives have been devastated. Jail time and lost jobs. Shattered families. Early deaths and grieving families. People like you and I, prescribed a highly addictive substance to treat their chronic pain or after a minor medical procedure, who find themselves in a dangerous free fall that leaves their lives in ruin. People who walk through your door look to you for help.

Yet opioid disorders are substantially different from other addictions. Drug-driven brain change and physical dependence, coupled with a substance that perilously slows breathing and heart rate have created a deadly epidemic of unprecedented proportions. And many individuals with opioid use disorders have at least one co-occurring mental health problem that must be addressed in the effort to achieve and sustain recovery.

A one-size fits all approach to addiction simply won’t suffice. Watch this training and learn more about:

Watch this critical training and get the tools you need to end the suffering and bring hope and healing to your clients!

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Objectives

  1. Describe the addictive properties and physical impacts of opioids on the human body.
  2. Utilize screening tools to identify disorders that may co-occur with opioid use disorder.
  3. Examine the latest research regarding the efficacy of Medication Assisted Treatment approaches and psychosocial approaches with opioid abusing clients.

Outline

The Unique Nature of Opioid Addiction

Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

Target Audience

Copyright : 12/12/2023