From: Rob Scuka <robscuka@earthlink.net>
Subject: Fulfill your CE Ethics requirement with this new, exciting workshop on Empathy and Ethical Dilemmas
Date: August 1, 2011 4:29:00 PM EDT
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NIRE is excited to offer this new ethics workshop by Mary Ortwein, MS, LMFT
Empathy and Ethical Dilemmas: Honing A Therapist's Basic Tool
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Location: NIRE, 4400 East-West Highway #28, Bethesda, MD 2814 CE Credit: 3 CE Credit hours Recently The Networker conducted a survey to identify the most influential therapist of the 20th century. Carl Rogers was chosen. Surprised? You don't find many strictly Client-Centered CE Workshops or programs of study in graduate schools. He's not the talk around therapist gatherings that EFT or CBT or Mindfulness is. But Rogers' empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard remain as core characteristics of the successful therapist. How does a therapist's empathy potentially create or complicate ethical dilemmas? How might it help resolve them? How might a therapist use empathy to work through counter-transference issues? The workshop will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and skills training. After a brief review of empathy as concept and therapist skill, participants will examine situations where therapist empathy, if unexamined, can create slippery slope situations where boundary violations may occur. Then participants will learn, observe, and practice two skills based on empathy, to resolve such situations. Troubleshooting uses empathy combined with effective self-expression of the therapist to maintain boundaries in troublesome situations. Empathic Role-Taking enables a therapist to self-examine (and possibly work through) once counter-transference issues surface with a client. This workshop is for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, professional counselors, pastoral counselors, or other mental health providers will explore how therapist empathy can create, complicate, and help resolve potential ethical dilemmas. Whether you work with individual adults, with children, with families, or with couples, this workshop will provide you with interesting information and take-home skills. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Identify how unexamined empathy can create potential ethical boundary violations, and how examined empathy can help resolve them.
2. Use Troubleshooting, a specific method of therapist empathy within the Relationship Enhancement Model, to resolve slippery slope situations without bending ethical principles.
3. Use empathic role taking for self-examination when a therapist identifies counter-transference issues with a client. Mary Ortwein, MS, LMFT, is Executive Director of IDEALS of Kentucky. A frequent national presenter of workshops on marriage and family therapy, the Relationship Enhancement and Filial models, and ethics, Mary combines information, practice, and processing to create interesting and thought-provoking CE workshops. Mary is co-author with Bernard Guerney, Jr., of the Mastering the Mysteries of Love Relationship Enhancement series of materials and author of Mastering the Magic of Play. She regularly sees and helps people work through ethical dilemmas. CE Information IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IDEALS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education programs specific to play therapy. APT Approved Provider 95-009. IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. NBCC provider #5560. IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education programs for social workers. IDEALS/NIRE maintains responsibility for the program and adhering to the appropriate guidelines required by the respective organizations. Participants receive 3 CE credits for completing this workshop. Registration Information Cost: $65 for the 3 hour workshop To register, please call NIRE at 301-986-1479, send your Registration Form (below) by fax to 301-680-3756, or mail your Registration Form and check to:
IDEALS/NIRE, Administrative Office, 12500 Blake Road, Silver Spring, MD 20904-2056.
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