Online Navigating Self-Disclosure: A Course for Human Services Professionals: October 12, 2023 (with Dr. Jamie Marich)

This is a LIVE, interactive webinar with sliding scale pricing available. More information on our sliding scale options available in course description.

Interested in this course? Email us at [email protected]

Navigating Self-Disclosure: A Course for Human Services Professionals (Online)

Thursday, October 12, 2023

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.

OBJECTIVES

After this course, participants will be able to:

Summarize the general contentions about self-disclosure in peer-reviewed literature from the human services professions
Discuss how documentation of lived experience from clients and professionals alike is both similar and different to what is in the peer-reviewed literature
Make decisions on self-disclosure in clinical setting using ethical code guidance from their specific professions and from their state of licensure (if applicable)
Identify one’s own intrapersonal and interpersonal blocks to engaging in appropriate self-disclosure, both clinically and in the public forum
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
Develop a personal plan for maintaining ethical boundaries while also emerging or further developing as a clinician-advocate

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.

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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.

About the Instructor

ICM Founder & Director Jamie Marich

Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they/we) began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Akron, OH. Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. Marich is the author of EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors, Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Marich co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care along with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger in 2018, and their new book with Springer Publishing Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide released in 2021. North Atlantic Books published a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps in the Summer of 2020, and they released The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery in 2022. Her latest release with North Atlantic Book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life came out in January 2023. She has three more projects in the works with North Atlantic Books, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God, due out in Autumn 2024. The Huffington Post published her personal story of being out as a clinical professional with a dissociative disorder in May 2023. The New York Times featured Marich’s writing and work on Dancing Mindfulness in 2017 and 2020. NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate. The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) granted Jamie the 2019 Advocacy in EMDR Award for her using her public platform in media and in the addiction field to advance awareness about EMDR therapy and to reduce stigma around mental health. Jamie also sits on the editorial board of the EMDR Journal of Practice and Research, and she was the 2008 winner of the Poster Research Award at the EMDRIA Annual Conference.

Continuing Education Approvals

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by the following organizations to offer 6 continuing education (CE) credit hours for this course:

State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for counselors, social workers, and marriage/family therapists. Approval: #RCS091306. 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.

American Psychological Association

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

National Board of Certified Counselors

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no. 6998. The ACEP is solely responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC Credits.

Association of Social Worker Boards

Institute for Creative Mindfulness, #1735, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/16/2021 – 03/16/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.