Difficult Ethical Discussions About Boundaries in Relationships

Difficult Ethical Discussions About Boundaries in Relationships

Friday, September 11, 2020

Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm

Presented By: Jeanne M. Slattery, Ph.D. and Linda K. Knauss, Ph.D., ABPP

Location: Online Seminar

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3.0 CE Credits

This interactive webinar discusses positive ethics, then invites participants to consider ethical dilemmas relating to boundaries and multiple relationships, using that framework. These dilemmas will take a variety of forms including in home treatment, decisions to return to in-office treatment after COVID, and multiple relationships or conflicts of interest.

Objectives:

1. Create a strategy for evaluating ethical dilemmas;
2. Identify tenets of positive ethics to guide decision-making and practice in response to ethical dilemmas involving problematic boundaries and relationships;
3. Identify ways of communicating about boundaries and relationships that foster positive relationships with colleagues, supervisees, students, and clients, and promote the therapeutic alliance and therapeutic progress.

Jeanne M. Slattery, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Clarion University and has authored or coauthored Empathic counseling: Building skills to empower change (2020); Trauma, meaning, and spirituality: Translating research into clinical practice (2017); and Counseling diverse clients: Bringing context into therapy (2004). She has been active in Pennsylvania Psychological Association, where she has served as Secretary, a member of the Board of Directors, and chair of the Interpersonal Violence Committee. She has led a series of conversations on ethical dilemmas that have become a regular column in Pennsylvania Psychologist. She has a small private practice working with adults and children with mood and anxiety disorders, especially subsequent to a history of trauma.

Linda K. Knauss, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor at Widener University’s Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology and the former Director of Internship Training there. Dr. Knauss is the Past-chair of the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee, the American Board of Professional Psychology’s Ethics Committee, the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee, and has served as Co-chair of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists’ Ethics Committee. Dr. Knauss taught courses in ethics at Widener University, Immaculata University, and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has authored several book chapters and journal articles on ethics, and has taught many continuing education workshops on a variety of ethical issues.

Dr. Knauss is the Past-president of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation, and the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists. She is also the Past-president of the APA Division of State Provincial and Territorial Association Affairs. She served as a member of the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives (2000-2006; 2013-2018 representing Pennsylvania). Dr. Knauss received the 2019 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Science and Profession of Psychology from the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. She is also the recipient of a 2015 APA Presidential Citation for her work in APA as well as the recipient of the 2002 Ethics Educators Award presented by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee, and the recipient of the 2004 Pennsylvania Psychological Association Distinguished Service Award.

In addition to her work at Widener University, Dr. Knauss maintains a private clinical practice where she sees children, adolescents, adults, and families.

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