*Counselors requiring New York State approval must contact ACA upon completion to obtain customized CE certificate
The 2014 ACA Code of Ethics contains a new section on distance counseling, technology, and social media. The code provides ethical considerations and guidance for the use of these mediums in the profession and with clients. Michelle E. Wade, LCPC, and Jeannette Baca, Ph.D, LPCC, discuss why this new section was needed in the code and provide examples of technologies currently being used within the mental health profession. Their presentation will assist participants in developing protocols for working with these new technologies. Ms. Wade is a doctoral candidate from Argosy University–DC whose dissertation focuses on social media and counseling. Dr. Baca served as president of the New Mexico Counseling Association and was Ethics Chair for six years.
Summarize the basic tenets of Michelle Wade, MS, M.Ed, NCC, LCPC and Dr. Jeannette Baca’s webinar presentation: Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media.
Discuss Ethical Considerations, and reasoning behind including Section H in the 2014 ACA Code Ethics .
Provide examples of technologies currently being used within the mental health profession
Description: The following questions will be addressed: (1) Please tell us about the process to revise the new code of ethics (COE). (2) The 2014 COE starts with a preamble and purpose statement. What are the noteworthy changes the task force made in the beginning of the COE? (3) We all know that the COE applies to the members of the American Counseling Association, but how does the 2014 COE apply to the profession of counseling and counselors who are not members of ACA? (4) As with all revision processes, things get added and removed. What are a few significant additions or changes that you can note for us in the new 2014 COE? (5) The profession has seen some high profile court cases in the last several years. For example, Ward v. Eastern Michigan University and a few others that have centered on the referral process and values. How have the 2014 COE addressed those issues? (6) Perhaps one of the most anticipated additions to the COE are the codes dealing with Social Media, Technology, and Computers. How does the 2014 COE address technology and social media? (7) Much has changed in the medical world with treating HIV & AIDS. This was one disease where professional counselors sought ethical guidance concerning how to provide appropriate services for those with life threatening and contagious diseases and the protection of those who may be in close relationships with those clients. What changes, if any, were made in the ethics concerning providing services to those with life threatening and contagious diseases? (8) Professional counselors are called to service in various ways to benefit the public for little or no compensation. Has that changed at all? (9) The mental health profession is seeing all sorts of new theories and treatment models emerging. How does the COE address using new or emerging theories and has that changed in the revision? (10) In reviewing the new COE, I notice there is added emphasis on using an ethical decision making model. Why is that?
Objectives:
Summarize the basic tenets of Dr. Lynn Linde's podcast on an overview of the new ACA 2014 Code of Ethics
Provide an overview of the American Counseling Association?s 2014 Code of Ethics
Discuss noteworthy changes to the Code of Ethics
Source/Book Title: Podcast HT47: Speaker Lynn E. Linde
Description: This chapter gives a brief 'history lesson' that illuminates how and when the counseling profession first recognized the need for a formal code of ethics, how it came into existence, and how it has evolved over time. This history will help you gain an appreciation for the extensive process that goes into creating and updating the Code.
Objectives:
Examine how the ACA Code of ethics has evolved
Explore elements of ethical decision making models, including specialized models and similarities among models
Understand enforcement of the Code and review an inventory of attitudes and beliefs about ethical issues
Source/Book Title ACA Ethical Standards Casebook, seventh edition by Barbara Herlihy and Gerald Corey
*Counselors requiring New York State approval must contact ACA upon completion to obtain customized CE certificate
Ethics is one of the most complicated areas that counselors must master, because it is a wide field with many nuances and challenges. Barbara Herlihy, Ph.D., LPC, LPC-S, and Gerald Corey, Ed.D., ABPP, address a range of topics related to the revised 2014 ACA Code of Ethics and provide highlights on the new seventh edition of the ACA Ethical Standards Casebook (2015) and the third edition of Boundary Issues in Counseling (2015). They focus on competence, managing value conflicts, counselor education and supervision, and effectively and ethically managing boundary issues in the practice of counseling. Dr. Herlihy is a university research professor in the counselor education program at the University of New Orleans. Dr. Corey is a professor emeritus of human services at California State University at Fullerton.
To offer audience participants an opportunity to raise questions of the presenters on the topics of the program.
To explore the role of values in the counseling process and to provide guidelines for ethically managing a counselor’s values in his or her professional work.
To highlight a few of the challenges involved in acquiring and maintaining competence.
To explore a few ethical issues in clinical supervision.
To examine some of the 2014 standards that apply to counselor education.
*Counselors requiring New York State approval must contact ACA upon completion to obtain customized CE certificate
Description: Dr. Michelle Wade discusses the ethical use of social media in counseling. Citing the ACA Code of Ethics often throughout this podcast, Dr. Wade provides a simpler understanding of complex issues including: social media and informed consent, the fact that skype is not HIPPA-compliant, and various positive uses of social media as a counseling tool.
Objectives:
Summarize the basic tenets of Michelle E. Wade, Ed.D. NCC, ACS, LCPC-S podcast on Ethics and Social Media
Discuss considerations and professional boundaries in order to ethically use social media in counseling
Discuss how to establish and maintain boundaries necessary when engaging in social media
Description: In the first of a four-part series on ethics, Dana Heller Levitt, Ph.D and Holly J. Hartwig Moorhead, Ph.D. present information on the "Values and Ethics in Counseling" Dana and Holly provide an overview of the ethical code and how counselors need to address their personal values in the counseling relationship. Case examples and practice guidance is offered throughout this conversation.
Objectives:
Summarize the basic tenets of the Values and Ethics in Counseling podcast
Provide an overview of the ethical code and how counselors need to address their personal values
Discuss ethical decision making, case examples, and practice guidance
*Counselors requiring New York State approval must contact ACA upon completion to obtain customized CE certificate
Description: New faculty members often face multiple tasks and challenges that raise ethical concerns. Dr. Jennifer Nivin Williamson and Dr. Daniel Williamson discuss “Unique Ethical Challenges Facing New Faculty” and how the ACA 2014 Code of Ethics guides the work of faculty.
Objectives:
Summarize the basic tenets of the Unique Ethical Challenges Facing New Faculty podcast
Discuss ethical challenges that new faculty may face, healthy boundaries and how the Code of Ethics can provide guidance
Discuss personal and cultural values and its challenges
Description: Kathy Ybanez-Llorente, Ph.D. discusses ethical issues related to the extension of counseling boundaries. Kathy provides an overview of the ethical code and how counselors need to address times when extending boundaries. Concrete examples ranging from the protection of clients from exploitation and faculty supervision to accepting gifts and counseling special populations are discussed.
Objectives:
Summarize the basic tenets of the Extending Boundaries podcast
Discuss ethical issues related to the extension of counseling boundaries
Discuss how to protect the client when extending boundaries
Source: Using Technology to Enhance Clinical Supervision, edited by Tony Rousmaniere and Edina Renfro-Michel
Description: In this chapter, we focus on ethical guidelines that are available for counseling supervisors and the underlying ethical principles and virtues to consider in the use of technology-assisted-supervision (TAS).
Objectives:
Examine guidance from the literature, ethical principles, and virtue ethics on the use of technology in clinical supervision.
Explore common ethical issues counselors encounter in technology-assisted supervision (TAS).
