Sunday, October 26th, 2025 9:30 AM EDT -12:30 PM EDT Susan Heitler, PhD
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Webinar Description
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.
About the Presenter:
Susan Heitler, PhD, is a distinguished clinical psychologist and accomplished author. Her six books, including the seminal work 'From Conflict to Resolution: Skills and Strategies for Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy' have contributed significantly to the field of psychotherapy, especially by creating a conceptual map for integrative treatment and by clarifying the principles of win-win conflict resolution. Dr. Heitler has conducted workshops across the United States and internationally including in the Middle East, Australia, China, and Europe. Close to 2 million viewers have watched her TEDx talk on lifting depression. Her popular Psychology Today blog, “Resolution, Not Conflict”, has amassed over 26 million reads."
In 2016, she delivered the keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Pan-Arab Psychological Association in Beirut, presenting a talk titled "Conflict Resolution: My Way, No MY Way."
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.
Accreditation - 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 3/27/2024 – 3/27/27. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits.
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- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
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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 intermediate level, and is beneficial for intermediate 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
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