This course will examine the high-risk nature of clinical practice in 2020, especially when working with couples and families. Frequently, when couples decide to divorce, their therapist will become entangled in the clients’ litigation which may result in the therapist receiving a subpoena for records and/or deposition and trial testimony.
Course created on April 20, 2020
On Demand
Course Type: Video
CE/CEU Offered: AK/1.0; AL/1.0; AR/1.0; ASWB ACE/1.0 Ethics; AZ/1.0; CA/1.0; CE Broker/1.0 Ethics, CE Broker #20-778510; CO/1.0; CT/1.0; DC/1.0; DE/1.0; FL/1.0; GA/1.0; HI/1.0; IA/1.0; IACET/0.1; ID/1.0; IL/1.0; IN/1.0; KS/1.0; KY/1.0; LA/1.0; MA/1.0; MD/1.0; ME/1.0; MI/1.0; MN/1.0; MO/1.0; MS/1.0; MT/1.0; NC/1.0; ND/1.0; NE/1.0; NH/1.0; NM/1.0; NV/1.0; NY-Contact Hours/1.0 Self-Study; OH/1.0; OK/1.0; OR/1.0; PA/1.0; RI/1.0; SC/1.0; SD/1.0; TN/1.0; TX/1.0; UT/1.0; VA/1.0; VT/1.0; WA/1.0; WI/1.0; WV/1.0; WY/1.0
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to recognize why couples and families are considered high-risk clients.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify certain risks inherent in treating couples and families.
- After this course, participants will be able to predict specific clinical and legal challenges that may arise when working with couples and families.
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | Why Couples and Families are Considered High-Risk Clients |
| 15-35 Minutes | Certain Risks Inherent in Treating Couples and Families |
| 35-55 Minutes | Specific Clinical and Legal Challenges When Working with Couples & Families |
| 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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