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This workshop, of value to both new and seasoned mental health providers familiar with CBT, will address two important issues based on evidence-based treatment. The first concerns ethical responsibilities in professional practice; decision making in multiple relationships and boundary issues with clients. The second issue involves self care and burn-out prevention.
A discussion of factors involved in decision making about multiple relationships will include psychotherapist factors, client/patient factors, and the nature of the therapy. Other boundary issues such as giving and receiving gifts, self-disclosure, touch, and bartering will be addressed as will special situations or populations such as working with multicultural clients or in rural areas.
The second half of the program will address our ethical responsibility to ensure that our competence is not compromised by neglect of our self-care. Failure to care for ourselves can result in the experience of depletion, discouragement and burn-out, with negative consequences to ourselves and to those we serve. The importance of self care throughout the life cycle of the practitioner will be emphasized.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This workshop is designed to help you:
- have a working knowledge of role conflicts inherent in multiple relationships;
- list three factors involved in decision making about multiple relationships;
- identify two guidelines involved in decision making about boundary issues such as giving and receiving gifts, self-disclosure, nonsexual touch, and bartering;
- define burn-out, identify two of its causes, and describe specific consequences;
- list three practical strategies to prevent and mnage burn-out and to promote self-care.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: 6
Subject to APA guidelines for attendance, certificates or six CE credits will be available upon completion of the workshop.
PROGRAM TIMETABLE
Friday, October 16, 2009
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
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Registration
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9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
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Introduction and overview of multiple relationships, including sexual misconduct, nonsexual multiple relationships and models for decision making
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10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
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Break
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10:45 a.m. - Noon
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Decision making factors; boundary violations vs. therapeutic boundary crossings
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Noon - 1:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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1:00 - 2:15 p.m.
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Self care as ethical responsibility, causes and consequences of burn-out
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2:15 - 2:30 p.m.
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Break
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2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
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Strategies for self care and burn-out prevention
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INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Melba Vasquez is a psychologist in independent practice in Austin, Texas. She is co-author, with Ken Pope, of Ethics in Psychotherapy & Counseling: a Practical Guide (2007, 3rd edition) and How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist: Information, Ideas and Resources for Psychologists in Practice (2005). She currently serves as a member-at-large of the APA Board of Directors.
Dr. Vasquez is a past president of the Texas Psychological Association and of APA Divisions 35 (Society of Psychology of Women) and 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology). She is an APA Fellow and holds the Diplomate of the american Board of Professional Psychology. She is a co-founder of APA Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and of the National Multicultural Converence and Summit. Among her numerous awards are APA's Distinguishsed Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector, and the National Register's Alfred M. Wellner Senior Career Award for Outstanding Service to Psychology.
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