Name
W01 - Ethics Dinner: Client Welfare, Therapist Responsibility: Legal and Ethical Considerations, Pamela Harmell, PhD, 3 Ethics CE
Date & Time
Monday, June 25, 2018, 5:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Speakers
Description
Upon attending this session, attendees will be able to:
- Understand the importance of “beliefs” and “behaviors” when working with diverse clients and name two reasons why it is critical to know the differences.
- List three ethical considerations related to conflicts between ethics codes and personal values.
- Explain, define and give two reasons why the “conscience clause” is relevant to working with diverse populations.
Curriculum:
Hour One
- Introduction to ethical practice
- Cultural Empathy working with clients
- Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ)
- Working with diversity
- Bracketing
- Referrals versus discrimination
Hour Two
- Dueling ethics codes: Competence and discrimination
- Practicing value neutrality
- LGBTQ plus in the workplace
- Legal and ethical issues: conversion therapy
Hour Three
- Empathy morality
- Suggestions for graduate programs and supervision
- Freedom of speech when values and ethics collide
- First Amendment rights
- Four legal cases setting precedent and changing ethics codes
- Conscience clause issues
- Lessons learned
Dr. Harmell is a national lecturer specializing in legal and ethical issues in clinical practice. She is a professor at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology and has written extensively in professional publications on ethical practice. Dr. Harmell is a former chair of the California Psychological Association State Ethics Committee and is the current co-chair of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association Ethics Committee. She served on the Board of Directors of the California Psychological Association, and she is a past-president of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.