Part 4: Professional Responsibilities and Legal/ Ethical Issues in Supervision

Description of program:

Curriculum includes ethical and legal issues in supervision; regulatory issues including Ohio laws, including supervision laws/rules, professional standards, credentialing processes; route of reporting ethical violations, confidentiality and maintaining professionalism, professional boundaries and how supervision can help clinicians maintain ethical/legal standards.

Workshop objectives:

Upon completion of the workshop, participants will:

1. gain updated knowledge the topic of professional boundaries
2. understand the implication of this knowledge for supervision
3. understand the current ethical and legal issues in supervision
4. explore their own personal boundaries and how they may impact their supervisory work
5. discuss strategies to deal with potential boundary crossings and ethical violations in their supervisee’s work
6. Review case examples of ethical dilemmas and appropriate supervisory responses

Outline of workshop:

• Legal principles (malpractice, negligence, standard of care, vicarious liability, regulatory issues including Ohio laws, supervision law/rules, professional standards, credentialing processes;
• Ethical issues in supervision (dual roles, competency in supervision, informed consent, due process, confidentiality, therapy vs. supervision, social networking
• Dual relationships, touch, self-disclosure, sexual contact
• How supervisors can assist, monitor and manage supervisees/client boundaries and meet ethical/legal standards

8:30 – 10:35                Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision:  Lecture

10:35- 10:45               Break

10:45 – 11:30              Case discussions

11:30 – 12:15              Lunch

12:15 – 1:45                Clinical Boundaries and Supervision

1:45 – 2:35                  Supervision and Ethics Game

2:35 – 2:45                  Break

2:45 – 3:15                  Video demonstration of clinician dealing with ethical dilemma and discussion of the appropriate supervisory interventions

3:15 – 3:35                  How Supervision can help –

• Creating the supervisory environment
• Calculating risks
• Route of reporting ethical violations
• Maintaining professionalism
• Guidelines for decision making
• Clues to boundary problems
• Risk management