Teaching Ethical Decision-Making in Clinical Supervision

ONE OF THE PRIMARY ROLES OF CLINICAL SUPERVISORS is to mentor new practitioners in ethical decision-making. While supervisees learn practice models and apply them in their work, no model is a perfect match to a client’s unique and complex life situation. Every intervention carries some risk, because no therapist knows everything about their client. Professional ethics provide essential guardrails for this terrain of calculated clinical risk-taking, encouraging practitioners, new and seasoned, to balance application of clinical best practices with attention to client welfare and self-determination, informed consent, non malfeasance, cultural competence, and other core principles that are the wellspring of clinical integrity.

How do supervisors teach ethical decision-making in clinical supervision? How do they support new clinicians to apply rigorous critical thinking while practicing emotional self-regulation, especially under the stress of an urgent dilemma? How does teaching clinical ethics support clinical growth and fortify professional identity? In this webinar, we will learn how an ethical decision-making model can provide a road map and model the importance of collegial consultation and support when facing ethical dilemmas.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this three-hour, scenario-driven webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe a decision-making model that ensures grounded, rigorous critical thinking about tricky ethical dilemmas;
2. Apply the model in supervision meetings with supervisees, with an emphasis on emotional self-regulation and rigorous critical thinking;
3. Identify common obstacles that interfere with sound decision-making and strategies to mitigate them; and
4. Explore ethical principles with particular relevance to the challenges of practitioners who are learning as they go, especially competence, non malfeasance, and impairment.

THREE CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (ethics) through the National Association of Social Workers (Oregon).

BIPOC REPARATIONS DISCOUNT: If you identify as a member of BIPOC communities, you are entitled to a 25% discount.

MILITARY DISCOUNT: If you served in the military, either currently or in the past, or you are a military spouse, there is a 25% discount.

GRADUATE STUDENT DISCOUNT: If you are currently in graduate school in a clinical discipline and wish to register, there is a 25% discount.

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Host or Publisher Wayne Scott, MA, LCSW