Have you faced complex ethical dilemmas in your practice? Clinicians are often faced with “grey areas” when confronted with ethically complicated cases. This workshop explores the nature of complex ethics challenges in the mental health field. Specific types of ethical dilemmas that clinicians may face will be presented. Case examples will highlight the complexities and nuances of situations that clinicians face in practice. Learners will be introduced to thorough ethical decision-making frameworks. Learn about ethical decision making in healthcare, schools, mental health settings, and community settings. Gain valuable knowledge, skill, and confidence in leaning into complex ethical dilemmas with professionalism and wisdom.
https://frumtherapist.com/workshops/EthicalDecisionMakingsummerconf20252/viewEthical Decision Making:
Navigating Complex Cases (Recorded)
Previously Recorded
Presenter: Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW
Course Length: 3 Hours
This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
Have you faced complex ethical dilemmas in your practice? Clinicians are often faced with “grey areas” when confronted with ethically complicated cases. This workshop explores the nature of complex ethics challenges in the mental health field. Specific types of ethical dilemmas that clinicians may face will be presented. Case examples will highlight the complexities and nuances of situations that clinicians face in practice. Learners will be introduced to thorough ethical decision-making frameworks. Learn about ethical decision making in healthcare, schools, mental health settings, and community settings. Gain valuable knowledge, skill, and confidence in leaning into complex ethical dilemmas with professionalism and wisdom.
Time (2:00-5:00pm EST)
2:00pm – 2:45pm • An overview of general ethics
o Medical bioethics principles
o Why ethics are important for clinicians
• A police officer’s moral dilemma: What would you do?
• Social work and other codes of ethics
o Confidentiality, boundaries, culture, competence, conflicts of interest
• Ethical decision-making frameworks
o Ranking of ethical principles
o Ethical Decision-Making Model
o Reamer’s Ethical Framework
• Clinician skills necessary for ethical decision-making
o Knowledge, self-awareness, humility, reflection, objectivity
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm • Complex dilemmas in healthcare
• Decisional capacity
Complex dilemmas with mandated reporting
• Confidentiality of minors
3:30 pm – 3:40 pm 10 Minute Break
3:40 pm – 5:00 pm • Complex dilemmas in community practice settings
o Allocation of resources
• Complex dilemmas of duty to warn
o HIV status
• Complex ethical dilemmas involving boundaries and dual relationships
o Alliances and transitions
• Complex ethical dilemmas involving culture
o Discrimination vs documentation
• Key recommendations for resolving ethical dilemmas