Clinical Implications of Working with Couples Part 2: Ethical Management of Court Proceedings
Course: #1520Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 8 Reviews
This presentation will help participants develop ethical, self-protective strategies to avoid a high-risk case turning into a nightmare case! Participants will be introduced to a simple step-by-step approach for ethically responding to subpoenas for records, depositions, and preparing for litigation events, such as depositions and trial testifying.
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Course Type: Video
CE/CEU Offered: ASWB ACE/1.0 Ethics; CA (CAADE)/1.0; CA (CADTP)/1.0; CA (CCAPP-EI)/1.0; CE Broker/1.0 Ethics, Counseling Theories, CE Broker #20-1110338; CE Hours/1.0; CT (CCB)/1.0; GA (ADACBGA)/1.0; IACET/0.1; MO (MCB)/1.0; NAADAC/1.0 Counseling Services, Legal Ethical And Professional Development; NY-Contact Hours/1.0 Self-Study; OH (OCDP)/1.0 C5, C9; OK (LPC/LMFT)/1.0; OK (OBLADC)/1.0
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to list 3 ways to respond upon receipt of a subpoena for records or testimony.
- After this course, participants will be able to list 3 ways to reduce fear/anxiety related to testifying in depositions or at trial.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify ways to protect the therapeutic relationship in the context of legal involvement.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the differences between clinicians’ and litigators’ goals and mindsets and why these differences are important to clinicians.
Course created on April 29, 2020
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | What is a subpoena for records/deposition/trial testimony |
| 15-30 Minutes | Self-protective procedure/Client-protective procedure upon receipt of a subpoena |
| 30-45 Minutes | Protecting the therapeutic relationship when the therapist must testify |
| 45-55 Minutes | Preparing clinicians and clients for legal involvement or either/both |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary |
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Deborah M. Henson
MSW, JD LCSW, LL.M
Deborah M. Henson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Tulane School of Social Work, with over 35 years of clinical social work experience. In addition, she has a JD in civil law from Loyola University School of Law. Her hybrid professional background as a social work clinician and a lawyer gives her a unique perspective from which she is able to offer practical ethical solutions to high-risk clinical and legal situations that social worker practitioners/therapists encounter frequently.
Deborah has maintained a practice of psychotherapy since 1981, and she began offering supervision and consultation in the late 1980s. In addition, she has taught in the MSW program at Tulane School of Social Work in the areas of Family Violence and Therapy with Children, and in the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work program on Ethics and Social Justice. She also taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (1994-96).
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