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Ethics & Boundaries has never been this fun to learn! You will learn and enhance professional skills in conflict resolution and understanding conflict theories. Exploring difficult crucial conversations; you will build skills in the 5 Essentials to Navigating Difficult Conversations with peers and gain the ability to hold colleagues accountable when needed. Communication styles and mitigation of risk is examined through personal and professional review of workplace culture. This workshop focuses on appropriate ethics and boundaries in client-social worker, therapist, counselor and peer-to-peer relationships.  Use of workbook activities, case scenarios and personal reflection will foster understanding of ethical, reflective practice with clients, agency and colleague ethical challenges in the workplace, and building skills in communication, and cooperative confrontation. We will examine how appreciation in the workplace can relieve ethical dilemmas and improve decision making. You won’t learn this content anywhere else!   

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. Examining personal values and personality characteristics that encourage or hinder one’s ability to step forward and report unethical behavior.
3. Evaluate personal responsibility and choices made in one’s practice and how these choices have/have not prevented further ethical violations or improved ethical practice in the workplace.
4. Understand and apply the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), and our ethical principles and boundaries when making critical decisions in exposing ethical challenges in practice.
5. Demonstrate understanding of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), ethical principles, and boundaries applied to specific ethical dilemmas when confronting ethical challenges by co-workers, utilizing the Nine Step Ethical-Decision Making Model.