Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics
Clinical Strategies to Prevent Burnout, Uphold Personal Values & Adhere to Ethical Guidelines
- Speaker:
- Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Product Code:
- LWC150179
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ97229
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: In-Person Seminar 2 | Live Webcast | Digital Seminar | Live Webinar | Online Course
Description
We spend our days taking care of others, then wonder why we are burnt out, sore, can’t sleep, and feel so irritable ….
But here’s the catch: when we neglect our own well-being, it’s not just us who suffer. Ethical missteps, poor judgment, and even client care can be at risk.
That's why we brought in ethics expert Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW - who's trained clinicians across the country on the one skill set most of us were never taught: how to say no, set firm boundaries, and actually protect yourself without sacrificing the clients who depend on you.
This isn't a feel-good seminar about bubble baths and journaling. This is practical, ethics-grounded training that will give you the tools to reduce burnout risk, navigate boundary decisions, and develop a sustainable self-care plan you can adapt over time.
Through engaging discussion, real-world activities, and hands-on skill building, Adrianne will show you exactly how boundaries and self-care are ethically intertwined - and what the latest ethics codes actually require of you.
You’ll walk away equipped to handle it all, including:
- Setting and maintaining boundaries with confidence
- Applying ethical decision-making frameworks rooted in your own values
- Navigating the latest ethics codes and guidelines on self-care
- Integrating boundary-setting into your treatment planning
- Using practical techniques to promote resilience and reduce burnout risk for the long haul
Leave this training feeling refreshed and reinvigorated, with a personalized ethical self-care plan you can rely on for years to come.
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Speaker
Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW Related seminars and products
Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience across a diverse range of therapeutic settings. She earned her Master of Social Work from San Diego State University, where she focused her thesis on predictive factors for college graduation among low-income youth. Currently, Adrianne operates an online private practice, delivering evidence-based therapy to adolescents and adults in multiple states. In addition, she has consulted with organizations seeking to enhance their telehealth services by developing infrastructure to support clinician recruitment and multi-state operations.
Adrianne’s extensive experience prior to her telehealth practice includes work in emergency foster care, wilderness therapy, and community-based settings, where she has developed and implemented clinical processes for remote teams, trained and supervised staff, and provided evidence-based healthcare. She attributes her career success to maintaining healthy boundaries that allow her to balance professional and personal commitments, including participating in endurance events such as Ironman-distance triathlons. With a robust clinical background and a passion for promoting mental health, Adrianne remains a valuable resource for her clients and a leader in the mental health community.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Adrianne Sturtevant maintains a private practice and has an employment with MDLive. Adrianne Sturtevant receives compensation as a presenter. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Adrianne Sturtevant has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Alternate Dates
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FREE LIVE EVENT! | Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics
Mon, Dec 28, 2026 - 10:00am to 06:00pm CST - Product Code SUM150179 |
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Identify how personal and professional boundaries support clinician self-care.
- Identify how the NASW, APA, AAMFT and ACA Code of Ethics applies to boundary setting and self-care in the outpatient clinical setting.
- Choose strategies to reduce burnout risk in clinical pratice.
- Identify components of a self-care plan that supports healthy personal and professional boundaries.
- Identify risk and protective factors associationed with clinician burnout.
- Select appropriate strategies for communicating personal and professional boundaries.
Outline
Boundaries: The What and the Why- Personal v. professional boundaries
- Types of professional boundaries
- Self-disclosure
- Dual relationships
- Telehealth
- Documentation
- Countertransference
- Law vs code of ethics
- How the latest codes and standards inform boundaries
- Duty to report colleagues – importance of this ethical standard
- Identify personal values and how they related to boundaries
- Connections between personal values and professional ethics
- What to do if your values don’t align with ethical standards
- Protect your clients: Self-determination, values, and more
- Protect yourself: Burnout, ethical and legal obligations, and more
- How investing in self-care is upholding our professional ethics
- Compare areas from the code of ethics (NASW, APA, ACA, AAMFT)
- Difference in professional self-care and personal self-care
- Pillars of self-care: Emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual, professional, and relational
- Build a self-care plan to support healthy boundaries
- Teach boundaries to clients as a form of self-care
- How and when to say no
- Listen to client’s needs rather than imposing our own
- Teach clients reframing of obligations as a choice
- Identify client values to facilitate their building their own boundaries
- Recognize and manage transference and countertransference
- When to refer out a client due to transference issues
- Self-care specifically for therapists
- Eliminate unethical dual relationships
- Prevent burnout
- Have structure of healthy boundaries around work
- Support colleagues in being ethical
- Accept or reject employment based on your needs
- Supervision and peer support
- Continuing education
- Moral disengagement as result of poor work environment
- Predictive & protective factors of burnout
- How environment of workplace contributes
- Strategies for preventing burnout
- Personal strategies
- Seeking support
- Use stress inventory
- Time management
- Explore what boundaries are needed to prevent burnout
- Limitations, risks, and scope of practice
- Examples on how to phrase treatment goals
- Recognize personal boundaries within the clinical relationship
- Use values and boundaries work with clients
- Stay objective when our values don’t match our client’s values
- Relevant ethical codes and us working in our client’s best interests
- Intervention strategies if a client’s views are harmful vs. when they are different from our own
- Communication skills for holding clients to established boundaries
- Framework for interactions with clients
- Consent and other paperwork that starts conversation
- Boundaries on how and when to communicate
- Teach clients about emergency services
- Recognize differences in client needs without compromising self or acting unfairly to others
- Modes of communication and limitations of each
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
- Physicians
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