Counseling Ethics

Seminar Agenda
Presenter: Tuyet Brown, MSW, LICSW
E-mail: btblicsw@gmail.com
Place: _____________________
When & Where: 18 January 2018 Time: ________________

Opening - Welcome and introduction, participant list

Introduction of seminar workshop content: Counseling Ethics

Purpose of training and goals: Participants' questions and discussion

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Code of Ethics in Different Settings:

 Protects the client? Or the therapist/social worker?
 Boundaries and Relationships issues
 Policy - The institution versus the individual
 Children and the handicapped

Code of Ethics in Vietnam today

 Human rights issues
 Respect for self-determination
 Designing and setting concrete ethics rules and policies
 A Code of Ethics Governing Board?
 Licensing: Could this be the next step?
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Code of Ethics Applications

 Systems: schools, universities, health care
 Accuracy in use of guides & tools
 Providing treatment appropriately
 Using methodology, resources and referrals

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Ethical Considerations
 The importance of therapeutic relationships
 Transference & counter-transference: the dos & don'ts
 Dual relationships & Therapeutic boundaries
 Support services and Referrals: know when to refer, follow-up, and terminate

Service Provider’s Self-care: An important part in the life of counselors and therapists.

Group practice: Groups use guidelines to apply SW/Counseling Code of Ethics to cases based on
trainees' questions

Evaluation of Training: Feedback

Closing remarks - Certificate