Description

Ethical Issues and Risk Management Strategies for Professionals Working with Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders?  

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Date:  June 10, 2024

Location:  Virtual

Join us on June 10, 2024, for a captivating remote workshop where we'll highlight the paramount importance of self-care in behavioral healthcare.

Discover how prioritizing your own well-being is not just essential but one of the most ethical actions for healthcare professionals. Through dynamic discussions and experiential activities, we'll delve into the heart of ethics, embracing topics like self-compassion, forgiveness, and healing. Don't miss this chance to nurture your practice and uphold ethical standards from the comfort of your own space!

Course Descriptions and Learning Objectives 

The COVID-19 pandemic was a time during which many clinicians worked selflessly to be available to their clients who were struggling during the time of isolation. What we have since learned is that the practice of self-care - by those of us in the helping professions - is one of the most important ethical activities that we can engage in. The emotional cost of the work we do is immense; the need for ethical practices that support effective clinical practice while managing risks to self, clients, and agency is equally immense. This workshop will delve into what ethics, risk management, and self-care looks like for behavioral healthcare (mental health & substance use disorder) professionals. This highly interactive and experiential session will look at ethics through the lens of professional practice, including trauma (PTSD, moral injury, vicarious trauma), self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and healing. Ethical standards of practice and competency related to scope of practice will be integrated into this workshop. 

Learning Objectives:

• Define personal versus professional codes of ethics, dual relationships, use of self-disclosure, and confidentiality within the realm of hybrid services.
• Explore our understanding of standards of practice and scope of practice
• Define professional versus personal self-care and its influence on our practices, self-disclosure, and confidentiality 
• Describe the emotional costs of the work we engage in - both overt and covert - and how those costs influence our ethical judgment and risk management practices.
• Explain what we mean by ethics related to self-compassion, self-forgiveness, emotional healing, and emotional capital 
• Define the ethical concern associated with vicarious trauma, moral injury, professional burnout, and emotional exhaustion
• Explore risk management tools and activities that promote healthy clinical practices, including various biopsychosocial-spiritaul-emotional strategies that support and promote macro and micro professional practices 

Speaker Bio - Mita M. Johnson, Ed.D

Mita M. Johnson, EdD, LPC, LMFT, LAC, MAC, SAP, ACS, LMFT-S, BCTHP has been practicing in the world of mental health, marriage and family, and addictions counseling for  33 years. She earned her Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision and is a core faculty member in the School of Counseling program at Walden University. In addition, she has a thriving private practice where she provides clinical supervision, counseling services, and addiction-specific training and education. Mita is involved in regulatory and credentialing activities in Colorado and regional workforce recruitment and retention initiatives. She has been an active member of NAADAC for over 17 years, serves on the Ethics Committee, and began her two-year term as NAADAC’s Immediate Past-President in October 2022.  Mita is passionate about the quality of services delivered to our clients and mentoring clinicians who are providing those services.

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Registration Rates:

Accreditation: 

Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners 

Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for 7.0 Category 1 continuing education credits.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™: Physicians

Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. is accredited by MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

7.0 NBCC Credit Hours

The Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider ACEP No. 6140. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations for Ethical Issues and Risk Management Strategies for Professionals Working with Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders must be made no later than one week prior to the program date, and refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee. No refund option will be available for cancellations made less than one week prior to that program date. No-shore registrants will forfeit any payment made for the program. CHEP does not offer vouchers for cancellations for these conferences.

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CHEP’s Grievance Procedure:  https://www.chepinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Grievance-Procedure-revised-7-27-2018.pdf

Virtual Learning Policy and Procedure:  https://www.chepinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CHEP-Virtual-Learning-Policy-and-Precedure.v421.pdf

Presented by:  Chesapeake Health Education Program (CHEP)

Address:  PO Box 229, Perryville, MD  21903

Questions:

Please contact CHEP at (410) 642-1195 or email us at programs@chepinc.org