Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Exploring The Ethical Obligations of Mental Health Professionals

Self-Study
NYSED and ASWB/ACE Approved for 3 CE Contact Hours

Original live webinar event presented on May 11, 2023

This recorded presentation is viewable online from a computer via streaming video. Once your registration and payment are received, a link will be forwarded for access to the videos and instructions for taking a post-test and evaluation. All online continuing education programs require the completion of a post-test and evaluation for receipt of credits.

Can mental health professionals work with clients that 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. 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).

This course is not New York State specific and can satisfy ethics and boundaries training requirements for any state.

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

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

Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW

Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW, Principal Consultant with Krase Consultant, is an expert on the professional ethics, and the intersection of ethics with legal responsibilities. She has years of experience consulting with government and community-based organizations to develop policy & practice standards.

General Admission: $50

Available Discounts: 

• NYU Alumni (10% off): $45
• NYU Field Instructor (10% off): $45

Once you register, no cancellation or refund will be available. Registration and payment gives you immediate access to the self-study.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 3 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

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