Ethical Consultation:
Can We Provide All Things to All Clients? Should We?

Previously Recorded

$39.99 Member Price: $29.99 Alan M. Singer, PhD, LMSW

Should clinicians be role models for ethical behavior for their clients? This seminar will describe for therapists, how to serve as ethical consultants, who will help their clients balance their personal needs with their sense of responsibility to others. Dr. William Doherty, University of Minnesota, has introduced this cutting edge concept of the ethical consultation. Each of us clinicians should step up in the role of an ethical consultant. But, has Doherty turned a staple of sound therapeutic practice on its head?

In school, most of us were taught that our sole responsibility in therapy is to the person in front of us at our desk. Along comes ethical consultation to challenge that principle and posit that we are always affecting people who are in the client's life but not in the room with us. Should we be responsible for our clients’ entire family system? Until now, we likely considered them as “not our responsibility.” Dr. Singer will challenge seminar participants to attempt to fix not only their clients lives but minimally, to display empathy and suggest clinical interventions for members of their clients’ families. Featured in the webinar’s two interactive roleplays and panel discussion will be Dr. Dovid Fox, Ms. Miriam Turk, LCSW and Mrs. Rozi Wax, LMHC, LMFT.

About the Presenter

Dr. Alan Singer has been a family therapist in New Jersey and New York since 1980. He has a high success rate in saving marriages of couples on the brink of divorce. He serves as an Adjunct Professor for the Touro University Graduate School of Social Work and Director of Jewish Communal Outreach for the Men’s Division. He coordinates reconciliation for family estrangement, is a Certified Discernment Counselor, and serves on the U.S. Registry of Marriage-Friendly Therapists. He is a recovery specialist for the Beyond Affairs Network. He counsels via Zoom, blogs at FamilyThinking.com, and is the author of Creating Your Perfect Family Size (Wiley). His mantra: I’ll be the last person in the room to give up on your marriage. Married forty-five years, he and his wife are the parents of four grown children. He was a presenter at the NEFESH International Conferences of 2018, 2019, and 2022 and the first NARME conference. His essays are featured in AISH.com, Jerusalem Post, and the Central New Jersey Home News Tribune. He can be reached at dralansinger@gmail.com or (732) 572-2707

This workshop Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

Learning Objectives:

Define and describe the term ethical consultation. Explain the clinician’s potential new role as an ethical consultant. Enable seminar participants to experience ethical consultation first-hand via interactive role plays and experiential exercises.

Demonstrate the value of ethical consultation by using ten examples of actual client sessions on critical issues such as: post-partum depression, infidelity, estrangement/cutoffs, and clinicians serving as marital role models to our clients.

Challenge workshop participants to consider a new level of responsibility to our clients. We are always affecting people who are in our clients’ lives but not in the room with us. Traditionally we likely viewed them as: not our responsibility. Determine if we clinicians should be responsible to some degree for our clients’ entire family system.

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Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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