CSWE Social Work Month 2025 Webinar Series: Ethics and Boundaries for Substance Use Disorder Professionals

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar 2025-03-18 13:00:00 2025-03-18 14:00:00 CSWE Social Work Month 2025 Webinar Series: Ethics and Boundaries for Substance Use Disorder Professionals Event Description Sound ethics and boundaries are critical to the provision of Substance Use Disorder treatment. Unethical behavior and boundary violations are detrimental to the treatment process, impacting the clients’ recovery efforts, mental health and often leads to disengagement of services. At the same time, engagement in unethical practices and boundary violations can result in job dissatisfaction, burnout and severe consequences such as a loss of a job or license. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own experiences with ethical dilemmas throughout this training.  The purpose of the training is to promote an increased understanding and awareness in substance use and behavioral health providers of how adherence to a code of ethics and maintaining healthy boundaries is critical to the provision of quality substance use disorder treatment. Assisting individuals in the application of an ethical decision-making model through review of key ethical concepts and facilitated discussion focused on common ethical dilemmas SUD professionals experience. Participants will be introduced to differences between boundary crossings and boundary violations. Participants will be encouraged to think creatively and develop personalized strategies that suit the unique needs of their clinical settings and roles. The Center for Evidence-Based Practices makes every attempt to incorporate exercises and examples specific to the unique practice settings of participants, with an emphasis on individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Learning Objectives Examine how ethics and boundaries are critical to competent practice with SUD clients. Increase understanding of an ethical decision-making model. Identify the difference between boundary crossings and boundary violations. Moderator Patricia Stoddard Dare, PhD, MSW Professor, School of Social Work; Women's & Gender Studies Cleveland State University Speaker Deana Leber-George, MEd, LPCC-S Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) and the Substance Use Disorders Center of Excellence (SUD COE) Case Western Reserve University  For more information on PCSS-MOUD please visit their website. View the full CSWE Social Work Month 2025 Webinar Series Zoom Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences America/New_York public

Event Format: Virtual

Event Description

Sound ethics and boundaries are critical to the provision of Substance Use Disorder treatment. Unethical behavior and boundary violations are detrimental to the treatment process, impacting the clients’ recovery efforts, mental health and often leads to disengagement of services. At the same time, engagement in unethical practices and boundary violations can result in job dissatisfaction, burnout and severe consequences such as a loss of a job or license. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own experiences with ethical dilemmas throughout this training. 

The purpose of the training is to promote an increased understanding and awareness in substance use and behavioral health providers of how adherence to a code of ethics and maintaining healthy boundaries is critical to the provision of quality substance use disorder treatment. Assisting individuals in the application of an ethical decision-making model through review of key ethical concepts and facilitated discussion focused on common ethical dilemmas SUD professionals experience. Participants will be introduced to differences between boundary crossings and boundary violations. Participants will be encouraged to think creatively and develop personalized strategies that suit the unique needs of their clinical settings and roles. The Center for Evidence-Based Practices makes every attempt to incorporate exercises and examples specific to the unique practice settings of participants, with an emphasis on individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine how ethics and boundaries are critical to competent practice with SUD clients.
  2. Increase understanding of an ethical decision-making model.
  3. Identify the difference between boundary crossings and boundary violations.

Moderator

Patricia Stoddard Dare, PhD, MSW
Professor, School of Social Work; Women's & Gender Studies
Cleveland State University

Speaker

Deana Leber-George, MEd, LPCC-S
Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) and the Substance Use Disorders Center of Excellence (SUD COE)
Case Western Reserve University 

For more information on PCSS-MOUD please visit their website.

View the full CSWE Social Work Month 2025 Webinar Series

Event Location

Zoom

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