Dying for Help: Ethical Implications of Iatrogenic Effect in Mental Health

Drawing on personal narrative and professional experience, Tania Gainza will help participants consider inadvertent harmful consequences of the mental health system on clients and their families. Presentation will focus on the importance of critical self-reflection to minimize potential harm arising from clinicians' unchecked biases, values, beliefs, and feelings. Clinicians will learn to identify blind spots in their evaluation of clients and family systems and to recognize what they bring to the table. Ms. Gainza will focus on countertransference and ethical conflicts that may come up when clinicians fail to do deep self-reflection.

Tania Gainza, LICSW, has her master’s degree in social work and has worked in the field of psychotherapy for over 8 years providing therapy to clients and their families. Tania is a board certified supervisor through the MN Board of Social Work and the MN Behavioral Health Board.

Host or Publisher Fernbrook Family Center