Institute for Creative Mindfulness

Navigating Self-Disclosure: 

A Course for Human Services Professionals

**ONLINE**

Friday, August 19, 2022

9:00am-4:30pm ET

One hour break from 12:00pm-1:00pm ET

ABOUT THE COURSE

How much do I tell my clients about my own mental and physical health struggles? Where does the line of therapeutic benefit exist in sharing of myself in clinical and larger work settings? What issues must I consider if I am feeling called to be candid about my own struggles in the public forum (e.g., blogging, videos, speaking, advocacy)? 

 These are the questions that many human services professionals pose as they navigate the critical balance between vulnerability, necessary boundaries, and protecting themselves. While there are many ethical issues at play in evaluating these questions that will be addressed in this course, the larger focus of the course is how we as a field can create a culture of advocacy and destigmatization of mental health and addiction struggles through our own appropriate self-disclosure. While literature on the topics at hand will be reviewed in the course, this particular course does invite you into a high degree of your own introspection that is essential to both personal and professional growth.

This course meets requirements established by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapists board for 3 CE credit hours for ethics.

Attendance at the entire event is required to receive CE. No partial credit can be given.

By Registering for this Training, You Acknowledge and Agree to the Following:

• Attendance: Your presence at the entire training is required at all sessions, on video, as an attendance verification. No partial credit can be awarded. 

• Sliding Scale Pricing: We are offering tiered pricing for this program, and you are asked to register at the level that most applies to how you describe yourself or your business at this time:

  -Standard pricing for this course: $125.00

  -Individual in need of a price break due to circumstances beyond their control: $80.00

  -Students at all levels: $55.00

  Please contact [email protected]   with any questions or concerns regarding your payment. Note that requests for refunds are governed by ICM's Organizational Policies.

• Refund/Cancellation Policy: You have read and agree to ICM's Organizational Policies, which stipulate the terms for refunds, cancellations, and resolving grievances and disputes.

• Correspondence from Training Organization: The Institute for Creative Mindfulness regularly sends correspondence about the training, including an email confirmation at registration and several emails leading up to each training. The emails presently come from [email protected]. Additionally, The Institute for Creative Mindfulness may send out emails from [email protected]. If you are not receiving these emails, you are required to check your Spam folder as correspondence from new organizations often ends up there. Once you receive your first correspondence, please save the email to your address book. If you have not received a confirmation email or other correspondence from the organization within seven days of the event, it is your responsibility to reach out to us by email or phone.

• Professionalism: You will show up on time and be fully present for each session, acting in a professional manner. You will reach out to your faculty member or any assistants if any unexpected problems arise. Staying present for online learning can come with its unique set of challenges, and you agree to take full responsibility for addressing your needs in the area of grounding and self-care during the training. You agree to refrain from all alcohol and illicit drug use during the training and agree to speak with your faculty member or an assistant if you anticipate that your impairment due to prescribed medications might pose a problem during the training. The faculty and staff reserve the right to remove trainees at any time if the trainee creates an unsafe or unprofessional environment for you or for other trainees, or for any other reason, at their sole discretion.

• Accommodations: The Institute for Creative Mindfulness follows the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We ask that if you are in need of any special accommodations that will allow you to take your training with us online, please email us with any special requests thirty days before the scheduled training. If, during the training, a need for an accommodation arises, you are expected to contact your instructor and/or practicum assistant immediately and we will discuss the best possible solution.
  
  
• Confidentiality: There is no client relationship or other privilege that would create a duty rising to the level of clinical confidentiality in this training setting; however, you are expected to respect the confidentiality of other trainees in the group, and your trainer will explain the importance of confidentiality. Trainees who observe a problem with another trainee are expected to bring the problem to the lead trainer or other training staff. Similarly, if a staff member observes an issue with professionalism, they reserve the right to discuss that issue with the lead trainer. 

Email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

OBJECTIVES

After this course, participants will be able to:

1. Summarize the general contentions about self-disclosure in peer-reviewed literature from the human services professions

2. Discuss how documentation of lived experience from clients and professionals alike is both similar and different to what is in the peer-reviewed literature

3. Make decisions on self-disclosure in clinical setting using ethical code guidance from their specific professions and from their state of licensure (if applicable)

4. Identify one’s own intrapersonal and interpersonal blocks to engaging in appropriate self-disclosure, both clinically and in the public forum

5. Contextualize and articulate how self-disclosure from professionals, both clinically and in the public forum, can play a major role in decreasing and eliminating mental health and addiction stigma

6. Develop a personal plan for maintaining ethical boundaries while also emerging or further developing as a clinician-advocate