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The ACT of Ethics: Addressing Emotional Competence in Licensed Mental Health Professionals (LMHPs)

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Course overview

Ethics codes in psychology, counseling, and social work all specifically address professional well-being within their standards. Several researchers have written about the importance of professional well-being, and some go on to state that it is an ethical imperative. At the same time, there is research suggesting mental health professionals are not good at recognizing their own distress. This is further complicated by approaches to the well-being of mental health professionals being reactive rather than proactive. This intermediate level workshop will focus on ethical foundations for promoting psychological flexibility, which has been shown in a number of studies to promote personal and professional well-being. The presenter will discuss strategies, such as defusion, values, and committed action and help you apply the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model to growing your emotional competence. Join us for an engaged learning experience designed to help you expand your emotional competence, strengthen your ethical toolkit, and walk away with a plan for committed action you can use to promote your own professional well-being as it relates to ethical decision making.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners

Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker

3h Ethics for Social Workers

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

3h Ethics for Social Workers

Licensed Master Social Worker

3h Ethics for Social Workers

North Dakota State Board of Addiction Counseling Examiners

Licensed Addiction Counselor

3h Professional Ethics

Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor

3h Professional Ethics

Licensed Master Addiction Counselor

3h Professional Ethics

Disclosure statements

Learning Objectives:

  1. List 2 ethical codes/principles related to well-being that can be addressed through the use of the ACT model.
  2. Discuss the perspectives through which the Ethics Codes were written.
  3. Summarize how the ACT model can address issues of professional well-being.
  4. Develop a committed action plan to address your emotional competence based upon identified professional values.


Funding:

This course is funded by the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services, Behavioral Health Division through the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse.


Non-Discrimination:

HPC and ATAGF do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, disability, military status, sexual orientation, or age.


Conflict of Interest Statements:

There is no known commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interests. Dr. Haugen received an honorarium from the grant for this webinar and is the Founder & CEO of Haugen Performance Consulting, PLLC. There is also no commercial support or benefits for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs).


The presenter will inform participants of the utility and validity of content discussed (including the basis for statements about utility/validity), as well as limitations of the approach and the most common and severe risks, if any, associated with program content.


Requests for Accommodations:

HPC and ATAGF are committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in all aspects of its continuing education activities. Participants with special needs should contact program organizers so reasonable accommodations can be made.


To request accommodations, contact ATAGF's Continuing Education Vice Chair, Christine Boulton-Olson, PhD, LP, at training@grandforkstherapy.com.