Ethics & Boundaries: Things That Make You Go Hmm…Boundaries, Barriers, and Shame, Oh My!

Have that gut instinct, feeling of rumbling in your stomach, those things that make you go hmm…? This training offers participants an opportunity to explore the difference between boundaries and barriers in peer-to-peer and client relationships. It explores personal boundaries, trust, shame, vulnerability, and use of self-assessment tools to better understand our own personalities and practices. The training provides related information to enhance the workplace, conflict resolution strategies, and developing ethically informed decision-making model of practice with peer to peer and client to practitioner relationships.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Understand the importance of client/patient rights above and beyond the rights of social work practitioners and the agencies they represent. 

2. Examine the 9 professional boundaries and explore how these impact ethical decision making and the relationship with clients and colleagues. 

3. Discover the concepts of shame and vulnerability and how these interact with our personal social work practice and when determining how to best…