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Professional Misconduct and Boundaries

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1 CE Hour
Ethics
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Description

Sexual boundary violations among health care professionals is a serious ethical, moral, and usually illegal event, with impacts that are devastating to all parties. The recent and unprecedented barrage of individuals coming forward with evidence of past sexual coercion, misconduct, and criminal abuse has shown a spotlight on the underreporting of boundary violations in many professional relationships and settings.

 

Despite this, there continues to be inadequate empirical investigation and evidence on the prevalence of sexual assault and misconduct in the health care professions, especially among psychotherapists. This, along with a lack of consensus on the basic question of what constitutes boundary violations among disciplines and in various jurisdictions, leaves information gaps that can be filled only with more rigorous examination, prevention efforts, reduction of reporting barriers, and implementation and development of treatment strategies for both parties.

 

In this presentation, attendees will review risk and protective factors while gaining an understanding of the assessment, treatment, and monitoring process for behavioral health professionals who have engaged in this egregious behavior. This issue is critically important on several levels, but none more so than the emotional injury inflicted on vulnerable individuals seeking professional help. Clinicians will be provided specific examples to maintain ethical compliance.

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

Increase understanding of sexual boundary violations and related ethical issues.

Learning Objectives

1. Assess boundaries as it relates to professional/client interactions.
2. Identify risk factors for both distal and proximal dynamics for those who commit sexual boundary violations.
3. Describe and apply the Good Lives Model in assessment, treatment, and monitoring for those who
commit professional sexual violations.

Introductory
Ethics
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 1 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 1 Ethics continuing education credits.

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 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

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 LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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.

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 All Points North Lodge. 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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Dr. Phillip Hemphill, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Hemphill is considered a thought leader in the behavioral health and addictive service industry. He was a Strategic Board Advisor for APN Lodge before becoming Chief Clinical Officer.

 

Dr. Hemphill has received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Tulane University. He has had faculty appointments at Jacksonville University and Loyola University.

 

He has continued to write and publish academic research. His second book entitled Integrated Care in Addiction Treatment with Routledge Press was published in November 2021. He has presented papers and workshops at national conferences and published articles in the field of trauma, personality disorders, and addictions during the past 29 years.

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