Ethical Issues in Adoption and Foster Care

Mary-Carter Creech, MA, LMHC

with Anthony Collis, Ed.D

About the workshop

While professional ethics codes of the various mental health disciplines offer some insight into the values and principals promoted by mental health professionals, the professional literature and typical ethics trainings do not adequately cover the diversity of situations and distinctive circumstances commonly encountered by mental health clinicians who provide professional services in the world of foster care and adoption.

This workshop will cover the diversity of situations and distinctive circumstances commonly encountered by mental health clinicians who provide professional services in the world of foster care and adoption. Topics include: informed consent, the therapeutic contract, duty of care, confidentiality, boundaries, multiple roles and dual relationships, therapeutic modality and treatment records.

This workshop is part of a structured educational consultation group offered through the Certificate Program in Adoption and Foster Care Therapy. This consult group is open and ongoing and will meet several time a year.

For those enrolled in the Certificate Program, this workshop fulfills 3 of the required ethics credits needed for completion. Also meets 3 of the 6 ethics and law CEUs required for re-licensure in Washingon State. Mary-Carter will lead the group. Anthony Collis will drop in to lend his expertise.

About the presenter

Mary-Carter Creech, MA, LMHC , has worked nearly 20 years with families who have com together through foster care and adoption. Her private practice is in association with Deborah Gray, MSW, the founder of Nurturing Attachments. Mary-Carter has developed a unique therapeutic approach that partners with parents to strengthen the parent/child attachment in the beginning stages of a foster care/adoption placement using an in-home therapy model. Ms. Creech is one of the founders and instructors of the Certificate Program in Adoption and Foster Care Therapy.

Anthony Collis, Ed.D in Counseling Psychology and Management, Temple University, Professor Emeritus and former Director, Graduate Programs in Psychology and Coordinator of Program in Foster Care and Adoption at Antioch University. Tony has 20 years of combined professional experience both as a faculty member of a Counseling Program and an MBA Program, and as an organizational consultant. He has worked with Public Agencies and Private Sector corporations providing conflict resolution and employee assistance services. As a corporate consultant, group facilitator and faculty member he has trained executives and managers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. In addition, he co-founded "The Station" , a day treatment facility for deinstitutionalized psychiatric patients in Frederick, Maryland, and is committed to public service

About the particulars

Location: Children's Home Society 3300 NE 65th Street Seattle 98115
When: August 15th, 2008
Hours: 9:00am-12:00pm
Fee: $50.00 US
CEU info: 3 CEU's Cascadia Training is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, to provide continuing education units to Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Certificates of Completion are awarded to attendees at the end of each workshop. Provider number #1975-118, and is an OSPI approved provider of in-service education. This is a "Washington State Approved Clock Hour Offering Workshop."