The Ethical Path: Navigating Personal Beliefs and Cultural Biases

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Date Oct 22, 2014
Time 10:00 AM EDT
Cost $49.00
Online
How does your practice stay on the ethical path? Assess the effects that personal values have on your conduct, and strive for cultural competence.

Full Description:
Ethics is much more than just “the law.”  Therapists regularly encounter ethical dilemmas that are not as clearly defined, and they must be informed in order to make sound decisions.

During this webinar, participants will examine how personal values help to determine professional conduct, and the reasons that professionals make ethical mistakes. Dr. Patterson will also focus on the issue of cultural competency, as she reveals what cultural issues the therapists, as well as the clients, bring into a therapy session. Participants will use case examples to encourage self-exploration and practice determining appropriate courses of action.


Course Includes:
Live Q&A
Presentation Handout
Post session recording access
CE Credit


What You Will Learn:
Explain how personal values determine professional conduct
Explore why professionals make ethical mistakes
Describe cultural competence as an important aspect of ethics
Identify the consequences of cultural incompetence
Apply APA, ACA, AAMFT, NAADAC, and NASW codes to determine the ethical course of action for various dilemmas


Your Presenter:
FRANCES PATTERSON, PhD, LADAC, MAC, BCPC, CCJAS, QSAP, QCS, is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor in Tennessee, and a Master Addictions Counselor and Qualified Substance Abuse Professional through the National Association of Addictions Professionals (NAADAC). She holds a certification as a Criminal Justice Addictions Specialist and is a board certified professional counselor with the American Psychotherapy Association. Dr. Patterson is a Certified Clinical Supervisor in the State of Tennessee and oral examiner for A&D licensure. She has worked as a clinician and program administrator in treatment programs in Virginia and Tennessee for 25 years. Dr. Patterson is owner of Footprints Consulting Services, LLC in Nashville, Tennessee. She provides program consultation, professional training, clinical supervision and client education and assessment. She is the chair of NAADAC's clinical issues committee and member of the ethics committee, member of the NAADAC Trainers Academy and NAADAC approved trainer. 

In 2005, Dr. Patterson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award by Tennessee Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and in 2006 she received the Mel Schulstad award, NAADAC's national Professional of the Year award. She has conducted professional training locally, statewide, and nationally for more than 15 years on addictions, mental health, and professional counseling issues to a variety of disciplines. She is recently published in Addiction Professional magazine. She is well known for her professionalism, sense of humor, and ability to engage her audience in the topics she presents.


Disclaimer:
Only registered attendees will have access to CE. A Cross Country Education web account is required to attend. There is no charge for a CCE web account. It is recommended that you join the meeting 15 to 20 minutes early. Speaker phone sound quality is poor and it is recommended that they not be used to listen to the event.
 

Technical requirements:
To view this webinar you will need to download the WebEx Application. You will be prompted to download it when you first enter the site. To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting by following this link: https://apidemoeu.webex.com/apidemoeu/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php


Who Should Attend:
Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Case Managers Educators, Pastoral Counselors/Clergy

 


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