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When an Individual-Therapy Client Is Married:
Ethical Considerations

Individual therapy for married individuals presents multiple ethical challenges, particularly concerning the principles of beneficence (optimizing benefits) and inadvertent maleficence (doing harm to the client, their spouse, or their marriage). Additionally, ethical dilemmas regarding dual relationships versus the one-therapist rule, therapist competence, and confidentiality present unique considerations when a client is married. Via research, case examples, and experiential learning, this webinar explores these multiple ethical dilemmas, then offers potential solutions.

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When an Individual-Therapy Client Is Married:
Ethical Considerations

Previously Recorded

Presenter: Susan Heitler, PhD

Course Length: 3 Hours

Learning Objectives:

Summarize at least one example in which individual therapy for a married client violated the ethical standard of beneficence.
Explain at least one example in which individual therapy violated the ethical standard of maleficence.
Roleplay how to explain their rules for confidentiality to clients when the treatment involves a combination of individual and couple therapy treatment formats.

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

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Individual therapy for married individuals presents multiple ethical challenges, particularly concerning the principles of beneficence (optimizing benefits) and inadvertent maleficence (doing harm to the client, their spouse, or their marriage). Additionally, ethical dilemmas regarding dual relationships versus the one-therapist rule, therapist competence, and confidentiality present unique considerations when a client is married. Via research, case examples, and experiential learning, this webinar explores these multiple ethical dilemmas, then offers potential solutions.

Learning Objectives:

Summarize at least one example in which individual therapy for a married client violated the ethical standard of beneficence.
Explain at least one example in which individual therapy violated the ethical standard of maleficence.
Roleplay how to explain their rules for confidentiality to clients when the treatment involves a combination of individual and couple therapy treatment formats.

Agenda:

Hour 1: Beneficence and Maleficence: lecture, case examples, and guided discussion.

Hour 2: Confidentiality, Dual relationships, The One Therapist Rule: case examples and practice case.

Hour 3: Win-win conflict resolution and other essentials for meeting the ethical concern of competence. Lecture, guided discussion, followed by small group exercise with a practice case.

This presentation is open to:

Social Workers
Professional Counselors
Therapists
Psychologists
Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services

Course Level: intermediate

Level of Clinician: intermediate

New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.

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