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Preserving Professionalism: Understanding Boundary Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Hybrid
2 CE Hours
Ethics, General
Free

Presented By

  • Andrea Brognano, LMHC, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, ACS
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Description

Maintaining ethical boundaries is essential for building trust in professional relationships. This workshop explores best practices for preserving appropriate physical, emotional, and social boundaries with clients, students, patients, and other vulnerable populations. We will define key terminology, identify boundary crossings versus violations, discuss complexities related to self-disclosure and gifts, and provide strategies for avoiding or mitigating problematic dual relationships. Whether you are established in your career or just
starting out, this workshop will enhance your understanding of ethics and boundaries, with time for questions and discussion.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Psychologist
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to enhance professionals’ understanding of ethical boundaries and dual relationships to uphold trust and integrity in asymmetric relationships.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Define boundary crossing, boundary violation, and double bind situation.

  • Identify 2 or more differences between a boundary crossing and a boundary violation.

  • Identify 3 potential boundary issues in case studies and describe strategies for mitigating each.

  • Recognize and respond appropriately to complex boundary dilemmas, as measured by comparison of beginning and end of workshop survey on challenging real-world scenarios.

Introductory
Ethics
General
Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, 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-0654.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health, #1766, 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. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Ethics continuing education credits.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by EAPA NY. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Note: Time designated for breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Andrea Brognano, LMHC, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, ACS

Andrea Brognano is a Licensed Mental Health Clinician and the group practice owner of Therapy Connection, an online mental health group practice that was established in late 2019. Therapy Connection has expanded to multiple states and expanded services including in-home services in New Jersey for children with disabilities. Andrea opened her second company, Achieve With Andrea (AWA), in the summer of 2021. AWA has several different programs including a membership to help therapists with social media, hosting women’s retreats and workshops, creating useful journals for purchase, a course for female entrepreneurs, wellness workshops for businesses, and a department for continuing education for therapists. In June 2023, Andrea opened a third company dedicated to mental health, specifically for people with developmental disabilities in New York. Andrea is passionate about mental health and how to help other entrepreneurs maintain mental wellness to be able to excel while holding a life-work balance.

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