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Center for Ethical Practice, Inc.
934 East Jefferson Street, Charlottesville VA 22902
Previous Workshops
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Chance Encounters of the Awkward Kind
What are the ethical implications of how we handle
encounters with clients or their families outside the clinical setting?
How do we decide where to draw the line in such encounters?
Are there any ways to minimize their occurrence, or to prevent unnecessary clinical complications?
How can we prevent them from becoming problematic dual relationships?
OUTLINE
Monday, May 3, 2010 -- DoubleTree Hotel -- Charlottesville VA
Friday, May 7, 2010 -- Hilton Garden Inn, Innsbrook -- Richmond VA
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Ethical Implications of Electronic Technology
What are the ethical and legal implications of
transmitting client information electronically via computer or FAX;
storing client information on computers, laptops, external drives, or disks;
communicating with clients using email, twitter, or other electronic formats;
using mobile phones or other portable communications devices;
interacting with clients on facebook or other online sites?
What are the necessary safeguards and where should we draw the line?
What are the distinctions between our profession's ethical requirements and HIPAA's legal requirements?
What are the implications for training our clinical and/or non-clinical staff, supervisees, or students?
OUTLINE
Monday, May 3, 2010 -- DoubleTree Hotel -- Charlottesville VA
Friday, May 7 - Richmond - Hilton Garden Inn, Innsbrook - Richmond VA
Saturday, June 12, 2010 -- Fairview Park Marriott -- Falls Church VA
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Choosing An Ethical Decision-Making Model
and Teaching It To Others:
A Step-By-Step Guide to Ethical Decision Making
This workshop will introduce several ethical decision-making models
and will then use hypothetical case vignettes
to help participants practice using them iu their own practice
or in the supervision or training of others.
OUTLINE
Friday, June 11 - Hilton Garden Inn - Fairfax VA
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Are Your Policies
(And/Or Your Supervisees' Policies)
Clear Enough?
This workshop considers the ethical implications of the presence or absence of clear policies
about fees, billing, availability, absences, emergencies, confidentiality, disclosure, boundaries, etc.
(1) How clear should they be? (2) How should they be described to clients?
(3) How well are your policies understood by others that you work with who implement them in your setting,
including clinical and non-clinical staff, as well as by those you train, mentor, or supervise?
OUTLINE
Friday, June 11 - Hilton Garden Inn - Fairfax VA
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Boundary "Crossing" or Boundary "Violation" ?
Ethically, What is the Difference?
Ethics writers are asking us to make a distinction between a benign non-sexual "crossing" of boundaries
and a harmful unethical "violation" of boundaries in client relationships.
What are the ethical and clinical implications of that distinction?
Where should we draw the line? Who gets to decide?
OUTLINE
Saturday, June 12, 2010 -- Fairview Park Marriott -- Falls Church VA
Monday, June 28, 2010 -- Holiday Inn, Bypass Road -- Williamsburg VA
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Helping Without Hurting
E thically, it is important for mental health professionals to do good without doing harm
(i.e., practice both beneficence and nonmaleficence).
This workshop will consider ways of meeting this ethical obligation, but also will consider
the importance of balancing this care of patients with ongoing self-care that prevents harm to self.
OUTLINE
Monday, June 28, 2010 -- Holiday Inn, Bypass Road -- Williamsburg VA
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What Are We Not Talking About?
Raising the Ethical Issues We Avoid
Some ethical issues are difficult to address, so we clinicians tend not to raise them
in supervision, consultation, peer conversation, or workshops.
Dr. Fisher will dare to put some of those on the table, using clinical case vignettes.
Participants are invited to share any "hypothetical" case situations they choose,
but no one will be "put on the spot" or required to raise personal examples of the issues she will present.
OUTLINE
Monday, January 25, 2010 - Charlottesville
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Clarifying Our Ethical Responsibilities
in Multi-Client and Agency-Referred Cases
Why is "Who Is The Client?" the Wrong Question?
What Question Should We Ask Instead?
We are often advised to ask "Who Is The Client?"
when determining our ethical responsibilities or clarifying our confidentiality rules
in cases involving multiple clients or agency referrals.
That question implies a singular answer! Why does that create more problems than it solves?
It may be a required reimbursement question;
and sometimes it is a helpful clinical question;
but as an ethical question, does it lead us astray?
OUTLINE
Monday, January 25, 2010 - Charlottesville
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Record Keeping:
Focusing on the Ethical Underpinnings
In the midst of worrying about the record keeping requirements imposed by
state laws, HIPAA, managed care contracts, agency policies, etc., and with our eye on liability,
are we losing our ethical perspective?
We will cover ownership, content, storage, retention time, and other practical issues,
but our primary focus will be on the ethical considerations that should underlie our decisions.
OUTLINE
Saturday, February 13, 2010 -- Hilton Garden Inn Innsbrook -- Richmond VA
Friday, March 26, 2010 -- Fairview Park Marriott -- Falls Church VA
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Boundary "Crossing" or Boundary "Violation" ?
Ethically, What is the Difference?
Ethics writers are asking us to make a distinction between a benign non-sexual "crossing" of boundaries
and a harmful unethical "violation" of boundaries in client relationships.
What are the ethical and clinical implications of that distinction?
Where should we draw the line? Who gets to decide?
OUTLINE
Saturday, February 13, 2010 -- Hilton Garden Inn Innsbrook -- Richmond VA
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Protecting Confidentiality Rights
When May You Disclose Client Information?
When May You Refuse to Disclose?
When Must You Refuse to Disclose?
This workshop is based on a 6-Step Ethical Practice Model about Confidentiality
that integrates ethical and legal obligations about confidentiality
and guides decisions about disclosure.
OUTLINE
Friday, March 26, 2010 -- Fairview Park Marriott -- Falls Church VA
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Subpoenas & Court Orders
What is the legal difference between an attorney-issued "discovery subpoena"
and judge's "court order? What is the ethical implication of this legal difference?
Can you file a "motion to quash"? Should you? Will you be an "expert witness" or a "fact witness"?
OUTLINE
Monday, May 11, 2009 - DoubleTree Hotel, Charlottesville VA
Monday, May 18, 2009 - Hilton Garden Inn, Inndbrook, Richmond VA
Friday, June 12, 2009 - Fairview Pari Marriott, Falls Church VA
Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Clarion Hotel, Williamsburg VA
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Professional Ethics:
Two Developmental Perspectives
How have our professions' ethical standards changed across time?
How have we reacted to those changes?
How does our personal and professional development affect the ways we approach ethical issues
or change the types of ethical dilemmas we are more likely to notice, encounter, or create?
OUTLINE
Monday, May 11, 2009 - DoubleTree Hotel, Charlottesville VA
Monday, May 18, 2009 - Hilton Garden Inn, Inndbrook, Richmond VA
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Informed Consent With Couples and Families
Who Must Be Informed? About What? When?
From Whom Must We Obtain Consent? For What? When?
Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D.
Informed consent is a process, not a one-time event.
The informed consent process can be more complicated with couples and families.
What topics must we cover and whose consent must we obtain at the initial session?
After the initial informed consent understandings, when must the conversation be reopened?
We will review both ethical responsibilities and legal considerations.
OUTLINE
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - DoubleTree Hotel, Charlottesville VA
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - Hilton Garden Inn, Innsbrook, Richmond VA
Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Clarion Hotel, Williamsburg VA
o-o-o "Duty to Warn" or "Duty to Protect" ?
Which Obligation Do Virginia Clinicians Have ?
Do Virginia's Laws Match Our Ethics?
Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D.
What are our ethical and legal responsibilities if a client threatens harm to others?
What is the difference between
a legal"duty to warn" and a legal "duty to protect"?
Which of these applies in Virginia?
In addition to cases of threats of harm, what are the other circumstances when Virginia clinicians
have a
legal duty to disclose information for the protection of the client or of someone else?
Do our profession's ethical responsibilities coincide with our legal obligations under Virginia law?
OUTLINE
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - DoubleTree Hotel, Charlottesville VA
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - Hilton Garden Inn, Innsbrook, Richmond VA
Friday, June 12, 2009 - Fairview Pari Marriott, Falls Church
VA
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Which Ethical Question Should We Stop Asking?
Replacing "Who Is the Client?" With a Different Ethical Question
Our Ethics Codes suggest we ask "Who Is The Client?
Why does that crete more problems than it solves?
We suggest a different ethical question.
(This workshop is based on Mary Alice Fisher's January 2009 article in the journal,
Professional
Psychology:
Research and Practice, "Replacing "Who is the client?" with a Different
Ethical Question."
OUTLINE
Monday, May 11, 2009 - DoubleTree Hotel, Charlottesville VA
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"Ethical & Legal Issues in
Clinical Supervision & Consultation"
Mary Alice Fisher, Ph.D.
A workshop for clinicians who provide consultation or supervision,
but also appropriate for those who receive consultation or supervision.
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