As the final, bonus session in the “Handling Today’s Hidden Ethical Dilemmas” series, Marlene Maheu, a leader and pioneer in telehealth, will discuss how to effectively provide online therapy while maintaining ethical boundaries. She’ll explore such tools as Skype, Google, virtual self-help products, and more.

After this presentation, please take a few minutes to reflect on what was striking to you about this particular session, how it fits in with the entire series, and your thoughts after participating in this course and hearing perspectives on a variety of applicable topics. What do you think was most interesting or relevant to your practice? What questions remain for you?

We encourage you to comment on this session and about the series as a whole, as this kind of deeper engagement is vital to learning and understanding. Thank you for your participation, and we hope you come away from this course with a clearer vision of how to handle challenging ethics issues.

Today’s session with Steven Frankel will delve into how to avoid the most common ethical pitfalls and how to handle the most common ethical—and legal—issues. He’ll discuss role conflicts and deviations, boundary crossings and violations, and the three axioms of ethical responsibility.

After the session, please take a few minutes to let us know what you think. What did the presenter discuss that was new to you? What was most interesting or relevant? We invite you to share your thoughts, questions, and revelations, as well as including your name and hometown with your comments.

If you have any technical questions, please feel free to contact support@psychotherapynetworker.org. Thanks for your participation.

Learn from veteran therapist William Doherty as he’ll delve into complicated ethical situations by showing video clips from the popular HBO series, “The Sopranos” and “In Treatment” to lead discussions on useful and unbeneficial ways to bring up terminations when clients are no longer benefiting from therapy. Doherty will explain the most common scenarios when termination is—or should be broached—and will go over strategies for initiating termination topic at the right time and in the right way.

After the session, please take a few minutes to let us know what you think. What did Doherty discuss that was new to you? What was most interesting or relevant? We invite you to share your thoughts, questions, and revelations, as well as including your name and hometown with your comments.

If you have any technical questions, please feel free to contact support@psychotherapynetworker.org. Thanks for your participation.

Join expert Clifton Mitchell for a practical discussion on the latest legal developments on therapists’ responsibility to handle self-injurious behavior in clients, report abuse or rape, and handle right-to-die issues. Mitchell will cover significant legal and ethical situations and discuss practical case studies that’ll help you better understand the best ways to deal with these important issues—both ethically and legally—in the consulting room.

After the session, please take a few minutes to let us know what you think. What did Mitchell bring up that was most relevant or interesting to you? Do you have any specific questions for the presenter or your peers? We invite you to share your thoughts, questions, and revelations, as well as including your name and hometown with your comments. If you have any technical questions, please feel free to contact support@psychotherapynetworker.org. Thanks for your participation.

How has digital technology changed the ethical challenges therapists face with clients every day?  Join psychologist Ofer Zur in this practical discussion of the new ethical trials that have been brought up due to 21st-century technologies such as email, social media platforms, the Internet, cell phones, and more. Zur will break down these new dilemmas and provide suggestions as to what clinicians should do to effectively handle these ethical quandaries.

After the session, please take a few minutes to engage in the Comment Board and let us know what you thought. What did Zur bring up that was new to you? In your opinion, are there any other ethical dilemmas that exist because of new technologies that weren’t mentioned in this presentation? Do you have any questions for the presenter or participants?

We invite you to share your thoughts, questions, and revelations, as well as including your name and hometown with your comments. If you have any technical questions, please feel free to contact support@psychotherapynetworker.org. Thanks for your participation.

Welcome to the New Perspectives on Practice series, “Handling Today’s Hidden Ethical Dilemmas.” In this popular series with leading experts on ethical practice, you’ll gain a practical and illuminating look at ethical guidelines for therapists in the 21st century.

This first session with Mary Jo Barrett, the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change, will give you real-world examples of how to maintain boundaries even in the most challenging situations with clients. Learn why engaging in peer supervision and consultation are vital to conducting ethical therapy, and delve into many issues that are consistently confusing for clinicians. 

Throughout this series, a Comment Board will be available after each session. These Comment Boards are a way for participants to share thoughts and reflections about what was most thought-provoking and to ask questions of the presenters and of each other. We invite and encourage you to use these Comment Boards as a forum for learning. After listening to this first session, please just take a few minutes to share what you think. What was most interesting about this presentation? What questions do you have? 

Thank you so much for your participation, and welcome to this relevant and important series. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.