Program Descriptions

 #1    The Counseling Compact: Practicing Legally & Ethically Across State Lines

(NBCC ACEP#7457)

Recorded from the live webcast on 7/12/24   (links on flyers are not active)

#2    Supervision for Professional Counselors in Tennessee: Ethical, Legal, & Practice Issues

Recorded from the live webcast on 11/9/23

       (links on flyers are not active)

#3   Interjurisdictional Therapy and Compacts: Legal & Ethical Issues

Recorded from the live webcast on 10/6/23

#4   Distance Therapy and Technology in Counseling: Ethical & Legal Essentials

Recorded from the live webcast on 6/3/22

This recorded webinar: 

• Discusses the Six Keys to providing distance therapy legally and ethically.

• Explains the five ways to legally engage in interjurisdictional practice (i.e., providing services across state lines)

• Describes the most important ethical and legal issues pertaining to the use of social media, email/texting, websites, and practice management systems.

• Provides participants with a practical and effective model of ethical decision-making.

• Uses clinical vignettes to illustrate real-world dilemmas in distance therapy and technology

• Provides essential links and other resources to equip therapists who use distance counseling and other technologies

• Lists take-home strategies for avoiding ethical and legal problems in private practice and organizations.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the webinar participants will be able to:  

1. Describe the essential ethical and legal-related issues pertaining to the use of distance therapy and other technologies.

2. Determine how to navigate codes of ethics, laws, and licensing rules pertaining to the provision of distance therapy services and other technologies.

3. Identify strategies and methods for avoiding ethical and legal problems in distance therapy and other technologies.

4. Discuss current trends and developments in the use of distance therapy and other technologies.

#5   Counseling with Minors: Essentials of Ethical and Legal Practice

Recorded from the live webcast on 11/20/23

(links on flyers are not active)

#6   Private Practice in 2021: Ethical, Legal, & Professional Issues

Recorded from the live webcast on 9/22/23

links on flyers are not active)

#7   Boundaries and Multiple Relationships: Ethical Challenges & Dilemmas

Recorded from the live webcast April 2021

Boundary issues and multiple relationships present some of the most common and challenging ethical challenges and dilemmas. This webinar equips counseling and mental health professionals with the essential knowledge, skills, and resources necessary for navigating these issues. This webinar emphasizes practical information coupled with skill-building through the use of clinical vignettes. Examples of topics that will be addressed during the webinar or included in participants' materials include:

• types of boundary issues

• the unique challenges of multiple relationships

• social media & technology-related boundaries

• power differential dynamics

• self-disclosure and boundaries

• unavoidable relationships (e.g., small towns)

• managing boundaries with challenging clients

• boundaries with minors and parents

• boundaries in supervision

• navigating boundary problems and documenting decisions (summary)

Learning Objectives

1. Describe an effective decision-making process for use with ethical dilemmas related to boundaries and multiple relationships.

2. Identify and discuss professional ethical issues related to boundaries and multiple relationships including ethically appropriate responses.

3. Navigate ethical dilemmas related to boundaries and multiple relationships through vignettes, breakout group interactions and application of the Multiple Perspective Model.

#8   Suicide Care: From Theory to Treatment

Recorded from webcast in Nov. 2021

Suicide is a present and daunting reality we face as clinicians. It is also a reality in which we can play a transformative part for our clients, precisely when they need us most. Learn the essential research-based psychology of suicide as well as the assessments, interventions, and treatments that are informed by the research in this 3-hour webcast. Participants will receive valuable tools and resources to take with them into their practice.

This recorded webinar:

• Connects leading suicidology research with real world practice by unpacking primary suicidality theories and how they inform best practice interventions.

• Provides training on evidenced-based suicide screening, assessment and risk formulation.

• Establishes and builds upon risk management of suicide to treatment of suicide.

• Offers the emerging research-informed framework of murder-suicide, and how to use it.

• Uses clinical stories from the speaker’s direct experience to contextualize all aspects of the material.

• Is relentlessly focused on the practical application to the questions of: Why do people die by suicide? and What makes life worth living?

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the two leading suicide theories and their core components.

2. Apply an engagement framework to suicide care

3. Implement evidenced-based suicide screening

4. Differentiate between suicide risk management interventions and suicide treatment interventions.

5. Identify the emerging perversion of virtue murder-suicide theory

Presenter

Adam Graham, LPC/MHSP draws on 10 years of direct care, leadership, training, and research experience in the field of suicide care. Adam is an Emeritus member of the Tennessee Governor’s Suicide Prevention Taskforce, chaired the Zero Suicide Initiative at a community mental health center, served as the Director of Emergency Psychiatric Services for Nashville’s Mobile Crisis Team, Crisis Treatment Center and Crisis Stabilization Units. During this work Adam presented research and case work at the American Association of Suicidology national conference for the past four years. Adam currently develops clinical trainings, provides individual therapy, and offers threat assessment and mitigation consultation in a variety of contexts.