Ethical Management of Opposing Viewpoints and Moral Injury in Clinical Work

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Dates: Friday, November 8, 2024 or Friday, January 24, 2025

Time: 9 a.m. - Noon ET

Delivery: Synchronous Virtual Classroom via Zoom

You are sitting with a client, they make a statement that insults, upsets, or derails your connection, you stay silent but abruptly cancel their next session and never circle back-is this ethical? Or, consider this, you are doing the best you can to support a client, but their issues and dysfunction are amplified repeatedly by society’s dismissal and abandonment, are you helping or making it worse? What do you do? Join us as we reflect on how our ethical mandates can support and safeguard our psyches and our work in this challenging political and social climate!

This program is comprised of two foci related to ethical navigation of common and derailing experiences in the clinical space. With the amount of contention and polarization affecting North American society, it is not uncommon to encounter someone whose views are vehemently opposed to yours. That is a common reality that may not need to be addressed. However, as personhood becomes more and more politicized, it is becoming more common for disparate opinions to be centered on the very essence of one’s life, loves, or lived experiences.

The first part of this program will offer ethical considerations for providers when they are faced with a client’s opposing viewpoint that has ruptured the therapeutic alliance.

The second half of this program will focus on how we, as clinicians, navigate our own experiences of Moral Injury from attempting to address societal challenges that threaten the health and well-being of those to whom we provide care. To remain positive, hopeful, and unconditional in our positive regard for those we serve, it is important for us to recognize and address the challenging impacts of witnessing trials and tribulations we have little power to change. When burnout, vicarious trauma and emotional exhaustion threatens our personal well-being, ethical guidelines can support us to help regain stability and protect the clinical space.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

1. Relay the clinical guidelines that affect our management of opposing opinions and/or ruptures that occur in the clinical relationship with clients.

2. Explain the strategies and language available to ethically address and navigate ruptures that occur toward increased trust and positive client outcomes.

3. Recite the definition of moral injury and how it affects clinicians working with high acuity and low resourced clients.

4. Relay the ways in which our ethical guidelines safeguard our psyches and practice in the face of moral Injury.

Instructor

Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSW, is Principal Partner of Hindsight Consulting Group, which provides training and small group interventions for non-profits of diverse foci, and is an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. An alum of Penn's SP2, Laura began her career as a direct practitioner with children, adolescents, and families at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, developing skills in HIV/AIDS specific care needs, case management, and high acuity hospital based social work practice, as well as psychotherapy. Laura is also the Chairperson Emeritus of the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors, and a current Board Member of The Therapy Center of Philadelphia.

Cost | CEUs

Program Cost: $70

CEUs: 3 (Qualifies for 3 Ethics CEU credits)

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