(This is a LIVE VIRTUAL event. Access to a recording will not be available.)

Presented by

Dr. Tom Murphy, LMHC-D, ACS

This course will provide guidance to identify ethical dilemmas and make informed decisions that protect mental health practitioners from ethical and legal violations and protect clients from harm.  
 

This course meets the requirements established by the New York State Education Department regulations, updated on October 4, 2022. A licensed psychologist, social worker or mental health practitioner required to complete continuing education must complete 3 hours of acceptable continuing education on issues related to maintaining appropriate professional boundaries between licensees and patients. The course work must be taken from a provider approved by the Department and counts toward the 36 hours of continuing education required in each 36-month registration period.
October 2022 Regents Item
Each profession’s Continuing Education webpages

Learning Objectives

As a result of attending this course, learners will be able to:
 

1. Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental health practitioners to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with their clients.
2. Recognize and describe dual relationships. 
3. Implement systems and practices that will avoid the development of dual relationships whenever avoidable. 
4. Implement systems and practices to minimize harm to clients and the practitioner whenever dual relationships are not avoidable.  

About Dr. Murphy

Tom Murphy completed a doctorate in Counselor Education and Practice at Georgia State University.  He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York, a National Certified Counselor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor, and is certified by EMDRIA as an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) clinician.  He provided clinical services (trauma focused) at Positive Impact Health Centers in Decatur, GA.  He conducted workshops on Clinical Supervision, Telemental Health, and Supervision Ethics; and provided supervision and clinical practice at Advanced Counselor Training and Supervisions LLC in Atlanta.  Tom is also a former associate professor of counseling at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY as well as owns a private counseling practice.