(WJCS STAFF ONLY)

Date: May 30, 2023                               Time:   9:00-12:00

Enrollment Limited To:  40               Contact Hrs:    3                     CEUs:  3

Can mental health professionals work with clients who they know from outside of the job? Can you barter with clients for your services? Mental health professionals are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but the obligation isn’t always so easy to discern. This course brings real-world context to ethical concerns often experienced by professionals in practice in maintaining appropriate professional boundaries, including telehealth and social media domains. This course will provide a framework to contemplate ethical dilemmas and make informed decisions that insulate professionals from legal liability while protecting clients from harm.

This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of Mental Health Professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries (effective April 2023).

Method:  Live interactive

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental health professionals to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with their clients.
• Define dual relationships.
• Apply a framework to avoid dual relationships whenever possible.
• Apply a framework to minimize potential harm to clients and the professional whenever dual relationships are not avoidable.
• Explain how to demonstrate that a client has not been exploited or coerced, intentionally or unintentionally.

Instructor:  Kathryn S. Krase, PhD, JD, MSW

Location:  141 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale, NY (Zoom)

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW0067.

 Please note:  To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class.  Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.

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