NASW Georgia Chapter
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Atlanta, Georgia 30345
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An NASWGA Chapter Continuing Education Event
Topic: Ethical Considerations of Spirituality and Religion in Mental Health Treatment
Date: August 30, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
(30 minutes Lunch Break & Two-15 Minute Breaks)
CE Credit: 5 Ethics Hours
Platform: Virtual Live-Streaming/Zoom
Registration Limited to: 100
Fees: NASWGA/NASW Members $100 | Retired Members $65 | Non-Members $120
Facilitator: Charlie Safford, LCSW, CEO yourceus.com
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Charlie Safford is the President and owner of yourceus.com, Inc., a company that develops and markets web-based and live continuing education training for mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis. Mr. Safford has been Charles Safford is the President and owner of yourceus.com, Inc., a company that develops and markets web-based and live continuing education training for mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis. Mr. Safford has been providing counseling services since he received his graduate degree from Boston University in 1981 and
has been in private practice since 1985. Since moving to Atlanta in 1988, he has also been involved in developing and delivering innovative training programs for numerous audiences. In 2001, he merged his training and therapy skills to create yourceus.com, Inc., a company that teaches and trains mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis, offering both live and web-based programs encompassing the best and most recent knowledge and skills in the field of mental health.
Program Overview:
For many clients, their religious and spiritual life is a central organizing feature that shapes their self-narrative, moral stance and behavioral choices. Clinicians cannot operate ethically without having a clear understanding of the role and influence the religious life of a client plays in both their strengths and challenges. This 5-hour ethics program will examine how to integrate an ethically appropriate approach to addressing the place of religion and spirituality in the client’s life and explore challenges associated with times when the client’s religious and spiritual life impedes effective adaptive work. To enhance the learning process, this program will examine a number of complex ethical scenarios.
Objectives:
1. Clarify personal values about the cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of religion and spirituality.
2. Apply guidelines from the Code of Ethics concerning how to address treatment of clients’ religious and spiritual life.
3. Establish and maintain a therapeutic context and appropriate boundaries between the clinician’s religious and spiritual orientation and practices and the religious and spiritual orientation of the client.
4. Comprehend strategies and tools for the ethical assessment of clients’ religious and spiritual life and the interaction of that aspect of their life with other life components.
5. Understand how to integrate aspects of a client’s religious and spiritual life from other presentations of cultural diversity.
6. Apply tools and techniques for ethical decision making to working successfully with clients’ religious and spiritual life.
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