Professional Development

Cross Country Education

Safeguarding Boundaries: Recognizing & Addressing Sexual Transference & Countertransference

09/11/2015 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (US/Eastern)

09/11/2015 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Your Time Zone)

If Not Properly Dealt With, Sexual Feelings Can Have Grave Consequences for Therapist & Client

 Many professionals, at one time or another, are confronted with sexual attraction to a client. Anyone who deals with the needs of others in a professional setting is vulnerable to these feelings. If not properly dealt with, these feelings and issues can have grave consequences, up to and including loss of license, arrest, and imprisonment. Many professional training programs do not adequately prepare therapists and counselors to deal with these issues.

This webinar instructs participants on the dangers of dual relationships, ignoring personal feelings, and not confronting inappropriate client behavior. Through discussion of personal values, therapeutic and anti-therapeutic seduction, how and why clients seduce, and therapeutic power dynamics, participants will be able to consider how best to set and maintain appropriate boundaries in a counseling environment.

Objectives

*Explain the role of values in the counseling relationship

*Define sexual transference and countertransference

*Assess the dangers of not addressing, with a supervisor or therapist, personal feelings triggered by    clients

*Analyze how a client might try to seduce the therapist

*Identify the dynamics of therapeutic seduction

For more information/registration go to:   https://www.crosscountryeducation.com/cce/product/ShowWebinarDetails.do?seminarCode=WN091115-2

Aspire Counseling

Aspire Counseling is approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors, the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners, and by American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Each workshop provides three hours of continuing  education credit. Full attendance is required to receive credit (certificates are distributed at the end of the workshop).

Ethical Considerations When Dealing With Client Sexual Issues

Friday, September 25th

Wayne Pawlowski, LCSW-C

Wayne Pawlowski, ACSW, LICSW, AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator is an award winning educator-trainer and clinical social worker based in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Washington, DC. He has worked over 30 years in sexuality education, reproductive health, family planning, and provided training in all 50 states and 14 countries. Wayne is certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators.

This highly interactive workshop will explore ethical issues and dilemmas psychotherapists face when dealing with client sexual issues. You’ll get a brief overview of what professional Codes of Ethics tell us, as well as considerations to keep in mind when making ethical decisions involving client sexuality and sexual behaviors. The majority of the workshop will focus on exploring ethical issues involved in a range of case situations. We will use these cases to identify issues, analyze ethical decision-making, and tie that process back to professional Codes of Ethics. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES. This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify and analyze a variety of ethical issues and dilemmas that mental health professionals can    face when dealing with client sexual issues

2. Apply one ethical decision-making model/process to your work

3. Apply your Code of Ethics to ethical decision-making

Wayne Pawlowski, ACSW, LICSW, AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator is an award winning educator-trainer and clinical social worker based in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Washington, DC. He has worked over 30 years in sexuality education, reproductive health and family planning, and provided training in all 50 states and 14 countries. Wayne is certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists as a Certified Sexuality Educator. He is a member of the Sexuality and Aging Consortium at Widener University.

Helping Children And Families Cope with Chronic Illness

Friday, October 3rd  

Wendy B. Schiff, PhD

This workshop will familiarize you with common child and adolescent chronic illnesses. We will discuss the implications of illness for child and family adjustment and address clinical issues such as adherence to medical regimen and pain management. You will learn ways to help clients cope with the challenges associated with pediatric chronic conditions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES. This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify common pediatric chronic conditions and describe the challenges they present for child and family adjustment

2. Describe barriers to adhering to medical regimen and name at least one intervention to increase adherence

3. Describe common behavioral and emotional reactions to pediatric pain experiences and name at least one intervention to improve pain management

4. Identify strategies to use with families in your practice who are coping with a child’s chronic illness.

The Mind-Body Connection: Integrating Behavioral Health Principles into Your Practice

Friday, NOVEMBER 13^th

Elena Maurin, PhD, MHS

The field of psychology is paying increasing attention to the intersection of physical and mental health. This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the subspecialty of integrated primary care/behavioral health. It will focus on how clinicians in general practice can best assess for and address behavioral health needs among their clients. The workshop will include experiential exercises such as motivational interviewing and will allow participants to gain practice with these skills.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES. This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Describe the integrated primary care model and the continuum of behavioral health integration

2. Discuss the importance of considering behavioral health in your work with clients

3. Identify the behavioral health concerns most likely to affect your client population

4. Apply behavioral health techniques in clinical practice (e.g., motivational interviewing, problem-solving therapy, goal setting)

5. Identify key methods and resources for obtaining continued training in the area

Elana Maurin, PhD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in the areas of Health Psychology/Integrated Primary Care and Assessment. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Care at the University of Utah. Dr. Maurin also earned an MHS in Maternal and Child Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. In addition to her teaching and clinical work in the area of integrated primary care, Dr. Maurin has led national and international workshops on the topic. 

Workshops are at Johns Hopkins University at Shady Grove 9601 Medical Center Drive Rockville, MD

Note: September 25th and October 30th workshops are in the Gilchrist Auditorium.

For more information on the above programs go to: http://we-aspire.org/professionals/attend-continuing-education-aspire/