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Managing Ethics and Boundaries with a Clinical Lens

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Schedule

Class opens in Canvas on January 17, 2025
2 weeks; January 24, 2025–February 10, 2025
Canvas closes on February 28, 2025

Register through: January 21, 2025

All times shown in central time.

Fee

$148

Cancellation Policy

  • Cancel three full business days before the class starts and receive a full refund minus a $25 administrative fee.
  • Cancel less than three business days beforehand, or do not participate, you remain responsible for the entire fee.

Summary

This class meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal and is designed for social workers, counselors, therapists, psychologists, and other helping professionals.

This 4-hour group-paced online Canvas course is about the management of professional ethics and boundaries can be challenging in clinical work especially as we have become more dependent on the use of technology. This course will address the unique issues encountered during the provision of clinical services and will discuss best practice approaches to these challenges. There will be captured lecture content, course readings and weekly discussion posts with the opportunity to interact both with peers and the instructor. You will have the opportunity to participate within the flexibility of an online classroom, while still interacting with colleagues within the professions of social work, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other behavioral health professions. This is an opportunity to consider the range of ethical mandates across many disciplines. This course was developed by Jeanne Wagner.

Overview

Learning objectives

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

  • Discuss the scope and causes of the mental health crisis in the US and better understand the need for competent and ethical mental health practitioners
  • Identify the array of ethical challenges with the use of technology and social media in clinical practice
  • Identify the range of ethical dilemmas and professional boundaries in clinical practice
  • Learn models for the ethical decision-making process
  • Increase awareness of the complicated nature of professional boundaries
  • Learn about the ethics of cultural competency in an ever-changing multicultural society
  • Identify risks that may affect professional liability
  • Identify what policies, procedures and protocols are recommended to address ethics in a variety of contexts
  • Learn how to use the NASW Code of Ethics, and an ethical decision-making process to problem-solve a variety of ethical dilemmas through group discussion

Audience

Beginner to Intermediate

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Earn Continuing Education Hours

By participating in this class you will earn:

Instructional Hours 4
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units .4
American Psychological Association - Continuing Education Credit 4
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Substance Abuse Counselors - Continuing Education Credit Hours 4
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Marriage and Family Therapists - Continuing Education Credit Hours 4
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Social Workers - Continuing Education Credit Hours 4
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Licensed Professional Counselors 4

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours

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Program Questions?

Contact Emma Bailey at emma.bailey@wisc.edu

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Meet your instructor

Jeanne Wagner Newton

MSW

Jeanne Wagner served as the Director of Social Work Field Education Programs at UW-Milwaukee for 19 years, and currently works as an independent contractor developing and teaching professional education workshops including professional ethics and boundaries, leadership and supervision, case management, documentation, confidentiality, adoption competency, safety in the field, etc. She has taught the Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) curriculum through the Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE)
and was previously UWM’s Co-Director for TAC. She received her MSW from Jane Addams College of Social Work, Chicago, IL and her BSW from Morehead State University, Morehead, KY. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Professor Emeritus with extensive clinical, management, administrative, and educational experience. She has worked in a variety of social service settings prior to her appointment with UWM, which include child welfare, adoption (domestic and international), mental health, intellectual
disabilities, and geriatrics. She served in the role of Ombuds for UWM from 2007-2023 and has 10 years of experience in Quality Assurance. She serves as a Board member for NASW-WI and is President of the WI Council on Social Work Education.