_____________________________________ Setting Ethical Limits: For Caring and Competent Professionals
SWTX06SE — 6 CE HOURS
R elease D ate : 12/01/24
E xpiration D ate : 11/30/27
Setting Ethical Limits: For Caring and Competent Professionals
Audience This course is designed for social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists in all practice settings. Course Objective The purpose of this course is to educate helping professionals on how to provide compassionate care ethically to those they serve without causing burnout. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Define professional competence. 2. Describe the importance of cultural competence. 3. Outline components of the therapeutic relationship. 4. Define empathy and describe the difference between empathy and sympathy. 5. Identify compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout and describe their impact on mental health professionals. 6. Define transference and countertransference and discuss their implications for the mental health professional. 7. Identify the functions of professional boundaries in the therapeutic relationship and multiple relationships. 8. Discuss the guidance on giving and receiving gifts provided by professional ethics codes. 9. Discuss the legal and ethical considerations of providing distance therapy. Faculty Lisa Hutchison, LMHC , has more than 20 years of experience providing individual and group counseling with adults. She specifically focuses on teaching assertiveness, stress management, and boundary setting for empathic helpers. Ms. Hutchison graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, with a Master’s degree in education for mental health counseling.
Faculty Disclosure Contributing faculty, Lisa Hutchison, LMHC, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned. Division Planners Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW Margaret Donohue, PhD Senior Director of Development and Academic Affairs Sarah Campbell Division Planners/Director Disclosure The division planners and director have disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned. Accreditations & Approvals As a Jointly Accredited Organization, NetCE 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 under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Designations of Credit Social workers completing this intermediate-to-advanced course receive 6 Ethics continuing education credits. About the Sponsor The purpose of NetCE is to provide challenging curricula to assist healthcare professionals to raise their levels of expertise while fulfilling their continuing education requirements, thereby improving the quality of healthcare.
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