When: November 1, 2024
9am-12:15pm (EDT)
Where: Silver Spring Civic Building
1 Veterans Pl, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Speakers: Brett Howard, PhD, APRN and Miranda Morris, PhD
Cost: Early Registration (Oct 1, 2024) $85
Standard Registration (After October 1, 2024) $105
CE certificate (3 hours) $10.00
Course Description
Supporting clients as they navigate the world of psychopharmacology can be difficult. Most therapists are not prescribers, and are thus ethically prohibited from giving what might be construed as medical advice. And yet we want to be helpful. Or we hear accounts that concern us. How can we effectively navigate ethical issues related to the complexities of psychopharmacological knowledge and effective collaboration with prescribers and our mutual clients? Psychotropic medication use is becoming increasingly prevalent, and therapists must navigate a nuanced ethical landscape that acknowledges the wide variance in treatment responses and the multifaceted nature of medication management. As therapists, it behooves us to navigate this unfamiliar context with skill, sensitivity and awareness.
The workshop will use a contextual behavioral lens to explore a number of ethical issues beginning with how to maintain appropriate professional boundaries while advocating for clients' best interests when collaborating with prescribers. With this foundation in place, we will explore ethical considerations in discussing medication effects, side effects, and alternatives with clients. This will include a review of the placebo effect and the diversity of client responses to psychiatric medications, illustrated through case studies. Finally, we will cover the importance of non-pharmacological interventions and the impact of client-provider relationships on treatment efficacy. Throughout the workshop, we will highlight the importance of therapist willingness, values-based action, and flexible perspective-taking in navigating these ethical dilemmas.
This interactive workshop combines didactic instruction with experiential learning. Participants will engage in small and large group discussions to explore ethical challenges and solutions. Role-play exercises will illuminate the complexities of ethical care and inter-professional collaboration
Target Audience
This workshop is suitable for therapists at all experience levels seeking to refine their ethical practice in the evolving landscape of mental health treatment, where the intersection of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology presents unique challenges and opportunities for client care.
After attending this training you will be able to:
- Describe at least 2 ethical implications of discussing psychopharmacology with clients
- Explain at least one strategy for setting appropriate boundaries when collaborating with prescribers
- Describe 3 ways in which therapists can support clients as they navigate psychopharmacological treatment.
Registration fee covers instruction only
CE Credits
- This activity has approval for 3 Ethics CE Credits for social workers, psychologists and counselors whose state boards accept ASWB or APA CE credits.
- You're Taking What?! The Therapist's Guide to the Ethics and Practice of Collaborative Psychiatric Care, course # 5937, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by True North Therapy and Training as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 8/23/24 to 8/23/26. Social workers completing this course receive 3 Ethics continuing education credits.
- The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- CE credits are not given for the 15 minute break.
ADA Accommodations: The workshop space at Silver Spring Civic Building
is ADA compliant. If there are ADA accommodations that you require, please contact us at Admin@TrueNorthACT.com
Your Trainers: Brett Howard
Brett D. Howard, PhD, NP is a psychologist and Nurse Practitioner who specializes in organizational psychology, practice management & human performance. Brett's clinical practice has specialties in career counseling, professional derailment, work and job dysfunction, failures to launch, ADHD and collaborative psychiatric medication management. Brett's recent organizational work includes his direction of Organizational Performance & Wellness at Hawaii News Now and internal performance coaching & organizational development consulting to businesses local to Honolulu, Hawaii. Brett also regularly consults with mental health and psychiatric business owners across the country on the strategic, personnel, organizational, and management aspects of private practice. Brett is an Adjunct Professor of Nursing at Chaminade University of Honolulu and has been an active practitioner and trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) for over 10 years.
Miranda Morris, PhD, is a psychologist in Bethesda, MD. She is a Peer Reviewed ACT Trainer, and she conducts regular workshops in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and related therapies including Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) and basic Relational Frame Theory (RFT) She is currently a Past President of the Board of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). In addition, Miranda is a member of the Mid Atlantic Chapter of ACBS Chapter and their ACT Carolinas affiliate. In her paid-work life, she is the Co-founder of True North Therapy and Training, a group dedicated to sharing contextual behavioral therapies with clients, practitioners, and the broader community.
Refunds
A $10 processing fee will be charged for registration refunds up to October 1st. We regret that after October 1st refunds cannot be made, but you may request credit toward a future program. If you need a refund, please contact us via email at DrMirandaMorris@gmail.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION Please email Miranda Morris at drmirandamorris@gmail.com
No commercial support was obtained for this CE program or for the instruction content that could be construed as a conflict of interest. No commercial support is being sought for an endorsement of any product (e.g., books, drugs, etc.).