Should clinicians be role models for ethical behavior for their clients? This seminar will describe for therapists, how to serve as ethical consultants, who will help their clients balance their personal needs with their sense of responsibility to others. Dr. William Doherty, University of Minnesota, has introduced this cutting edge concept of the ethical consultation. Each of us clinicians should step up in the role of an ethical consultant. But, has Doherty turned a staple of sound therapeutic practice on its head?
In school, most of us were taught that our sole responsibility in therapy is to the person in front of us at our desk. Along comes ethical consultation to challenge that principle and posit that we are always affecting people who are in the client's life but not in the room with us. Should we be responsible for our clients’ entire family system? Until now, we likely considered them as “not our responsibility.” Dr. Singer will challenge seminar participants to attempt to fix not only their clients lives but minimally, to display empathy and suggest clinical interventions for members of their clients’ families. Featured in the webinar’s two interactive roleplays and panel discussion will be Dr. Dovid Fox, Ms. Miriam Turk, LCSW and Mrs. Rozi Wax, LMHC, LMFT.
https://frumtherapist.com/workshops/EthicalConsultation/viewEthical Consultation:
Can We Provide All Things to All Clients? Should We?
Previously Recorded
Presenter: Alan M. Singer, PhD, LMSW
Course Length: 2 Hours
This workshop Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
Should clinicians be role models for ethical behavior for their clients? This seminar will describe for therapists, how to serve as ethical consultants, who will help their clients balance their personal needs with their sense of responsibility to others. Dr. William Doherty, University of Minnesota, has introduced this cutting edge concept of the ethical consultation. Each of us clinicians should step up in the role of an ethical consultant. But, has Doherty turned a staple of sound therapeutic practice on its head?
In school, most of us were taught that our sole responsibility in therapy is to the person in front of us at our desk. Along comes ethical consultation to challenge that principle and posit that we are always affecting people who are in the client's life but not in the room with us. Should we be responsible for our clients’ entire family system? Until now, we likely considered them as “not our responsibility.” Dr. Singer will challenge seminar participants to attempt to fix not only their clients lives but minimally, to display empathy and suggest clinical interventions for members of their clients’ families. Featured in the webinar’s two interactive roleplays and panel discussion will be Dr. Dovid Fox, Ms. Miriam Turk, LCSW and Mrs. Rozi Wax, LMHC, LMFT.
Ethical Consultation: This seminar will show therapists how to serve as ethical consultants, who help clients balance their personal needs with their sense of responsibility to others.
Description of Ethical Consultation 5 minutes
The NASW Ethics hotline. Don't leave home without it 10 minutes
Moral Foundations Theory: Haidt and Joseph 5 minutes
Technique for Ethical Consultation LEAP-C; the basic skills 5 minutes
Listen
Explore
Affirm
Perspective
Challenge Therapist: “I am concerned that you might be ending your marriage without seeing whether it could become healthy again through a high-quality round of couples’ therapy.”
Who is my client; my primary concern?
Old School: only the person who sits at my desk in my office. My client is my primary concern.
New School: What is my frame of mind for other members of his/her family system?
Ten Examples of Ethical Consultation in Practice:
FORMAT:
First: The Set Up is a 3-4 sentence description that ends with a question to
the audience
Second: Polling of audience for choice A, B, or C
Third: Read the end of the vignette…the actual response or decision
Fourth: Audience discussion
Example 1 When Little White Lies Become Big Ones
Example 2 Is Divorce Effective as an Anti-Depressant?
Example 3 Postpartum Depression: Does the Husband Have a Role to Play?
Example 4: My Mom is in Hospice: The Respectful Goodbye
Example 5 Estrangement: One Third of Americans Have Ceased All
Contact with a Family Member
Example 6 Help Thy Neighbor’s Marriage as Thyself
Example 7 When a Stranger Sends the Therapist Incriminating Information
about a Client
Example 8 Getting Beyond the Affair as the Therapist Urges: Let Go of
Your Failed Marriage
Example 9 Should a Therapist Feel Responsible to Question the Unfair
Treatment of a Hated Ex-spouse?
Example 10 When Your Client Asks for Less Frequent Sessions
Time for the 10 Examples: 50 minutes
Role Play: 20 minutes
Roleplay actors/panelists include Nefesh Leadership: R. Dr. Dovid Fox, Mrs. Rozi
Wax, LMHC, LMFT and Ms. Miriam Turk, LCSW.
Audience Question and Answer session 15 minutes
Summary and Conclusion 10 minutes
The principal argument of this seminar is that psychotherapy is truncated if it ignores the ethical dimension of our clients’ lives. We clinicians are midwives for relational deaths and rebirths, the shattering and rebuilding of committed intimate relationships that are at the heart of the human experience.
TOTAL TIME 120 minutes
