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Believe it or Not!:
Ethical Issues in Regard to Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health Treatment (Ethics)

Previously Recorded
$59.99 Erik Hadden, MA, LCPC

3 CEUs - Ethics

What do you do when a devoutly spiritual client comes to you, wants to include their spirituality in their treatment and you are not very familiar with their spirituality? What ethical issues are raised by treating people from diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds? What ethical issues arise when you, as a provider, have strong religious or spiritual beliefs?

This interactive training will help participants understand the ethical issues that may arise in treating client from different religious backgrounds and how religious competency is an ethical issue. Participants will learn how to address a client’s religion and spirituality in an ethical way, if and when it is ethical to incorporate it into treatment, and some common issues pertinent to treating clients from different religions. (Trainer, Erik Hadden, MA, LCPC, Vital Sources Psychological Services)

Believe it or Not!:
Ethical Issues in Regard to Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health Treatment (Ethics)

Previously Recorded

Presenter: Erik Hadden, MA, LCPC

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Learning Objectives:

  1. 1. identify common ethical issues that arise when addressing religious and spiritual issues in mental health treatment.
  2. 2. Participant will be able communicate why religious competency is important in the mental health field.
  3. 3. Participant will increase their ability to establish a therapeutic environment that is safe and affirming for religious clients.
  4. 4. access and use religious/spiritual assessments.
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3 CEUs - Ethics

What do you do when a devoutly spiritual client comes to you, wants to include their spirituality in their treatment and you are not very familiar with their spirituality? What ethical issues are raised by treating people from diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds? What ethical issues arise when you, as a provider, have strong religious or spiritual beliefs?

This interactive training will help participants understand the ethical issues that may arise in treating client from different religious backgrounds and how religious competency is an ethical issue. Participants will learn how to address a client’s religion and spirituality in an ethical way, if and when it is ethical to incorporate it into treatment, and some common issues pertinent to treating clients from different religions. (Trainer, Erik Hadden, MA, LCPC, Vital Sources Psychological Services)

Learning Objectives:

  1. 1. identify common ethical issues that arise when addressing religious and spiritual issues in mental health treatment.
  2. 2. Participant will be able communicate why religious competency is important in the mental health field.
  3. 3. Participant will increase their ability to establish a therapeutic environment that is safe and affirming for religious clients.
  4. 4. access and use religious/spiritual assessments.


This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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