ONE OF THE PRIMARY ROLES OF CLINICAL SUPERVISORS is to mentor new practitioners in rigorous ethical decision-making. 

While new clinicians learn practice models and apply them in their work, no model is a perfect match to a client’s unique and complex life situation. Plus, every intervention carries some risk, because no therapist knows everything about their client, and some miscalculations produce ruptures that both yield unknown information that helps with course correction and sometimes cause hurt that needs repair. Professional ethics provide guardrails for this terrain of calculated clinical risk-taking, encouraging clinicians, new and seasoned, to balance application of best practices with attention to client welfare and self-determination, informed consent, non malfeasance, cultural competence, and other core principles that are the wellspring of clinical integrity.

How do supervisors incorporate a focus on ethical decision-making in clinical supervision sessions? How do they support new clinicians to apply rigorous critical thinking while also practicing emotional self-regulation, especially under the stress of an urgent dilemma? In this short, scenario-driven webinar, we will learn how an ethical decision-making model can guide new practitioners and model the importance of collegial consultation and support when facing ethical dilemmas.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this three-hour, scenario-driven webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Review how they balance technical competence and ethical decision-making in clinical supervision;
2. Describe a decision-making model that ensures grounded, rigorous critical thinking about tricky ethical dilemmas;
3. Apply the model in supervision meetings with supervisees, with an emphasis on critical thinking and emotional self-regulation; 
4. Name common obstacles that interfere with sound decision-making and strategies to mitigate them; and
5. Explore ethical principles with particular relevance to the challenges of practitioners who are learning as they go within busy agency settings, especially competence, impairment, and dual relationships/conflicts of interest.

THREE CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS through the National Association of Social Workers.

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