Friday, May 9th, 2025 10:00 AM EDT -1:00 PM EDT Kathryn Krase, Ph.D.,
Yahoo!
Webinar Description
Mental health professionals are more than their professional role. We have personal lives. When those personal lives intertwine with our professional lives, things get complicated. This training explores dual/multiple relationships by examining case examples from the common to the unlikely, but still real. Special attention will be paid to considerations for communities where dual/multiple relationships in the provision of mental health care might not be avoidable, including rural areas, religious groups, LGBTQ communities, and veterans of military service.
This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries. This course is NOT New York state specific, and can satisfy ethics, boundaries and general CE requirements for any state.
Qualifications:
Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W., 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.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental health professionals to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with their clients.
- Define dual/multiple relationships.
- Apply a framework to avoid dual/multiple relationships whenever possible.
- Apply a framework to minimize potential harm to clients and the professional whenever dual/multiple relationships are not avoidable.
Agenda:
Introductions (5 minutes)
The Basics of Boundaries (25 minutes)
A definition of boundaries will be presented. This section will then outline an ethical framework
for decision making to use when contemplating boundaries related concerns. The definition of
dual/ multiple relationships with be introduced.
Overlapping Connections (30 minutes)
This section will explore common, and confusing, case examples where mental health
professionals are connected to their clients in ways beyond the provision of professional
services. The complications that these overlaps present will be analyzed using the framework
provided previously.
Communities in Common (30 minutes)
This section will explore case examples where mental health practitioners are found in the same
groups as their clients, whether through active participation, or through self-identification.
Trials and Tribulations of Technology (30 minutes)
This section will explore case examples where the use of technology in mental health practice
have complicated boundaries between clients and their practitioners.
Protecting Yourself from Ethical & Legal Liability (20 minutes)
This section will outline the framework that professionals can use to prevent ethical
conundrums, and protect themselves from legal liability when maintaining professional
boundaries is most complicated.
Conclusions/Questions (10 minutes)
Certificates Provider - This Webinar Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- CE You LLC #1573 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE You LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period {valid_date}. Social workers completing this course receive {num_ceu} continuing education credits.
- 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. - CE You LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0437
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- 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
This online class is offered at an introductory level ,and is beneficial for a beginner level clinician:
- 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
Official information
- Refunds: Registrants who are unable to attend a Thrapy Express seminar or live webinars may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform Thrapy Express ahead of time by emailing [email protected] or by calling or texting (631) 202-1010 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.
- 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.
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- Satisfactory Completion: Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, 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
- Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.