Description
This course examines ethical issues related to developing and maintaining clinical excellence, using Gestalt principles to avoid ethical errors, applying ethical standards in couple, marriage, and family therapy, and identifying and avoiding ethical concerns related to technology and counseling. The content of this continuing education program is adapted from Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations. Used by permission of Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
This CE course is designated as intermediate.
Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, physicians, nurses.
Format: Asynchronous, reading-based distance learning. Non-interactive.
Content Category: Ethics
This course meets the requirement for the risk management discount for the American Professional Agency.
There are no known conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose.
Author Bio
Editors:
Christin M. Jungers, PhD, LPCC, NCC is an Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She obtained her doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from Duquesne University and has worked in the field as a counselor since 2000. Christin is a licensed professional clinical counselor, as well as a National Certified Counselor. Her clinical work spans a variety of issues and includes counseling with individuals, couples, and families. Currently she offers pro-bono counseling services in Steubenville and Wintersville, Ohio through the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville. She is the editor of The Counselor's Companion: What Every Beginning Counselor Needs to Know (co-written with Jocelyn Gregoire) as well as numerous articles. Christin also has conducted trainings abroad in the Seychelles Islands and in Mauritius, which have been aimed at providing consultation to emerging counseling programs.
Jocelyn Gregoire, CSSp, EdD, LPC, NCC, ACS has been a Roman Catholic priest for 25 years and has been involved in the counseling field for many years. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to his doctorate in education, he holds two other graduate degrees. Through his expertise as a professional counselor, Dr. Gregoire has helped thousands of people across the world in their journeys toward personal growth and healing. He is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and a member of numerous counseling associations. He has co-authored several articles in refereed journals in the area of sexual addiction, racial and cultural identity development, and spirituality. He is also the co-author of The Counselor's Companion: What Every Beginning Counselor Needs to Know.
Contributors:
Gina M. Gordon, MS Ed, Blackhawk Intermediate School, Beaver Falls, PA
Maura Krushinski, EdD, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Stephen Kuniak, PhD, BCC, Unity Family Services, Leechburg, PA
Thomas Petrone, EdD, Gestalt Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Catherine A. Sherman, Med, MFA, NCC, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Stephen Southern, EdD, Mississippi College, Clinton, MS
CE Approvals
At Health, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. At Health, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
At Health, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6949. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. At Health, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Athealth.com is approved as a continuing education provider by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) Provider #148460.
At Health, LLC, Provider #1707, 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. At Health, LLC, maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/3/2023-5/3/2026.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social work in Arkansas. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social workers, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, master's level psychologists, licensed clinical psychotherapists, and alcohol and other drug abuse counselors in Kansas. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for mental health practice and for social work in Nebraska. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for psychologists, pastoral psychotherapists, clinical social workers, clinical mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and alcohol and drug abuse counselors in New Hampshire. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social workers, professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists in Tennessee. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
Other jurisdictions may accept trainings offered by At Health, LLC for your continuing education requirements. Restrictions may apply. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.”
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Learning Objectives
Upon completing this program, you should be able to:
- Use countertransference productively in the therapeutic relationship
- Identify and apply ethical standards in couple, marriage, and family therapy
- Discuss the most common ethical errors for therapists
- Determine what kind of information should be included in client records
- Identify common ethical concerns related to technology and counseling
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