Lisa Connors, Lambers Fisher & Frederic Reamer – Ethics & Cultural Competency Training Bundle: Up-to-Date Practices and Clinical Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals

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Get Over 20 Up-to-Date Best Practices to Stay

Ethical, Inclusive, and Ahead of the Curve

The therapy landscape is changing fast. New technology, shifting societal norms, and a growing focus on diversity demand new skills.

So many of the “best practices” and recommendations you learned just a few years ago are already outdated.

Don’t get left behind.

This ALL-NEW ethics and cultural competency training bundle will equip you with the latest information and tools to navigate today’s complex clinical world.

When you register, you’ll join leading experts Frederic Reamer, PhD, Lisa Connors, LPC, PhD, and Lambers Fisher, LMFT. They’ve shown thousands of clinicians like you how to master the complexities of the ever-changing ethical and cultural landscape — all in a way that feels simple, engaging, and immediately applicable.

In easy-to-follow video sessions full of over 20 best practices, real-life scenarios, and actionable insights, they’ll not only show you exactly what you should be doing but how you can avoid potential disasters you may have never even thought of.

From safely navigating the “grey areas” of boundary issues and dual relationships to confidently creating breakthrough therapy experiences with clients different from yourself…

…you’ll end this course ready to handle any ethical challenges that come your way and fully prepared to work with your clients’ diverse backgrounds with skill, humility, and responsiveness.

PLUS, when you register, you’ll get access to 3 FREE BONUS trainings covering 3 more vital and evolving issues all clinicians need to provide the best care to their clients.

Don’t find yourself unsure, unprepared, or making mistakes that can hurt your clients and your career.

Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Clinical Practice: Ethical and Risk Management Challenges
Frederic G. Reamer, PhD 

Outline

The nature of boundary issues and dual relationships in the behavioral health professions: Code of Ethics

• Boundary crossings and boundary violations
• Common practitioner mistakes
• Address practitioner impairment and warning signs
• Prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints
• Unethical conduct
• Assess boundary-related risks
• Importance of careful documentation
• Boundaries and dual relationship case examples

Boundary issues in the digital age

• Communicate with current/former clients online
• Browsing for information about clients
• Challenges related to clients searching for information about their therapists
   

Patterns of boundary issues and dual relationships

• Intimate relationships
• Emotional and dependency needs
• Personal benefit
• Altruism
• Unavoidable and unanticipated circumstances

Ethical standards: Boundaries and Dual Relationships

• Conflicts of interest
• Unethical conduct
• The boundaries of self-disclosure
• Prevent impairment and boundary violations
• Practitioner incompetence
• Professional negligence
• Standard of care for ethically complex cases
• Importance of supervision
• What healthy boundaries look like 

Risk Management Strategies: Protecting Clients and Practitioners

• Professional negligence and malpractice
• Codes of ethics standards
• Statutes and regulations
• Standards of care and ethical practice
• Ethical decision making
• Create a strategy and common warning signs

Social Justice, Ethics and Multicultural Issues for Mental Health Professionals: Clinical Strategies for Inclusivity, Empowerment and Improved Treatment Outcomes

Lisa Connors, PhD, LCPC, LPC, NCC

Includes up to 1.0 Hour of general ethics instruction and 5.0 hours of cultural competency

Outline

How Client Identity and Systemic Dynamics Impact Assessment and Treatment

• Social class, race, ethnicity, poverty and religion
• Gender identity and sexuality
• Myths, oppression, stereotypes and microaggressions
• Power dynamics of counseling that can threaten minority groups
• How clinician’s values and biases influence therapeutic outcomes
• Culturally competent assessment techniques
• Research implications and limitations

Ethics and the Equal Treatment of Clients

• Obligations to challenge social injustice
• Respecting the inherent dignity and worth of the person
• Valuing the importance of human relationships 

Clinical Strategies: That Meet Clients Where They Are: Proven Approaches for Greater Empathy and Effectiveness

• How to understand clients within their social and cultural environments
• Strategies to recognize your:

• • Inherent biases
  • Histories and generational influences
• Self-assessment – identify personal values that can influence therapeutic outcomes
• Techniques to work with inter-generational and historical trauma
• Crisis intervention strategies

Be a Change Agent: How to Advocate for Your Clients Individually, Communally, and Globally

• Should clinicians hold a neutral position?
• Strategies to reduce barriers to accessing mental health treatment
• Overcome cultural shame surrounding mental health issues
• Tips for working with racial stress and trauma
• Connect clients to resources, agencies and funding
• Intervention at the system level 

Case Scenarios

A Shame-Free Path to Cultural Competence: Rising to the Challenge

Lambers Fisher, MS, MDiv, LMFT 
Includes up to 1.75 hours of cultural competency

Outline

Clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offenses in the therapeutic relationship

• A Client-centered approach to cultural competence
• Strategies for identifying & addressing microaggressions 

Culturally significant influencing factors on treatment

• Ethical implications of cultural competence in assessment and treatment
• Cultural experiences therapists often misunderstand (e.g. ethnicity, diverse families, age, gender, religion)

Increasing cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions

• Clarifying commonly misunderstood diversity language
• Application of cultural competence on client rapport as well as advocacy 

Increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures

• Strategies for increased self-awareness and acceptance
• Reducing barriers of shame and guilt in increasing cultural competence

Ethical Standards for Culturally Competent Practice

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv 
Includes up to 1.0 Hour of general ethics instruction

Outline 

• An Attainable Goal for Ethical Cultural Competency
• Conveying Value of Varying Cultural Identities, Expressions, & Needs
• The Ethical Significance of Culturally Competent Language Usage
• Practical Strategies for Reducing & Addressing Cultural Offenses
• Research, Risks and Treatment Limitations

PLUS, when you register today, you’ll receive 3 FREE bonus sessions to meet additional CE requirements!

Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence: How to Move Beyond Our Fears
David Jobes, PhD, ABPP 
Includes up to 3.0 hours of suicide education

Outline 

• Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states
• Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk
• Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states (both face-to-face and using telehealth)
• Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
• Learn practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability

Telehealth: The Top Client Considerations and Mistakes to Avoid

Melissa Westendorf, PhD, JD 
Includes up to 2.5 hours of telehealth education

Outline

Screening and Suitability of the Client

• Benefits of Telehealth Services

• • Evidenced-Based Research
  • Patient and Setting Contraindications
• The Intake, Mental Status Exam, and Ongoing Evaluation
• Assessment with Clients 

Professional Boundary Considerations

• For the Client
• For the Clinician
  • Crossings versus Violations
  • Recommendations for Maintaining Professional Boundaries
• Licensing Board Complaint Examples 

Multicultural Considerations

• Issues to Consider
• Geography, Settings, Populations
• Seeking Guidance

Theoretical Considerations for Telehealth

• Evidence-Based Support
• Which Models Transition Well 

Self-Care for the Clinician

• Ethics Application
• Causes of Burnout
• Warning Signs in Therapists
• Characteristics of Effective Self-care
• Strategies and Techniques
• Resources

Opioid Use Disorder: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About One of the Most Dangerous and Lethal Drug Epidemics in American History

Hayden Center, PHD, LPC 
Includes up to 3.0 hours of opioid education

Outline

The Unique Nature of Opioid Addiction

• Distinct risks of opioid abuse
• What neuroscience and biology reveal about opioid use
• Brain centers – the relationship between brain centers and pain
• The pleasure factor and the addicted brain
• Differences from other substance use disorders
• How chronic opioid use changes the brain

Psychotherapeutic Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder

• Signs of opioid abuse and questions to ask
• CBT – recent studies
• Motivational Interviewing and commitment to change
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy – confidence and coping skills
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Family counseling
• How contingency management can be used with opioid use disorders
• Adjunct approaches
• Assessing and modifying treatment to ensure effectiveness
• Research limitations and risks of psychotherapeutic approaches

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

• Research and the latest findings
• Methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone
• Benefits, risks and drawbacks of MAT
• Role of the behavioral health clinician in MAT

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