Side-Stepping Ethical Pitfalls Part II

Judy C. Roberts, MA, LMHC

About the workshop

These two workshops, which meet the Ethics and Law requirement for Washington State, deal with the aspects of mental health practice in which clinicians tend to be particularly vulnerable. Please review the content of each day. Part 1 Select the one that most fits your needs, or plan on attending both.

This workshop addresses seven aspects of mental health practice in which clinicians tend to be particularly vulnerable in terms of regulatory complaints or malpractice lawsuits. The workshop will clarify under what conditions that vulnerability might occur and include suggestions designed for minimizing one’s risk.

   • Excessive or Inappropriate Self Disclosure

   • Knowing what Constitutes a Multiple Role

   • Engaging in a Multiple Relationship

   • Participating in a Business Relationship with a Client

   • Failure to Seek Consultation

   • Supervisory Responsibilities

   • Responding to the Dreaded Subpoena

Learning Objectives:

Identify three factors that when considered in regard to a specific potential dual relationship clarify the relative potential for harm in that dual relationship.

Describe the risk inherent in failing to participate in regular consultation.

Restate the two questions that help a clinician clarify whether their self-disclosure is either excessive or inappropriate.

About the presenter

Judy C. Roberts, MA, LMHC, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Seattle Pacific College in 1968, and a Masters of Arts in Education (counseling) from Seattle University in 1989. She began her private practice in 1989 and currently works full time in her Seattle practice seeing individual adults, couples, older adolescents, and occasionally she does adjunctive family work.

Ms Roberts is a member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association. She has served as the ethics chair for both Seattle Counselors Association and the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association, was a member of the Dept of Health Licensed Counselor Advisory Committee for several years, and was a founding board member of the Washington State Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, the Pro-bono Therapy Network for Sexual Abuse Survivors, and the Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network. Ms Roberts taught professional ethics & legal issues as an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University’s graduate psychology program in Seattle for many years, and has been teaching continuing education workshops focusing on professional ethics and legal issues for over ten years.

About the particulars

Location: Shoreline Center
When: January 18th, 2008
Hours: 9:00am-4:30pm
Fee: $125.00 or both days for $225.00 US
CEU info: 6 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."