Dating, DMs, & Dual Roles: Modern Social Media Ethics for Trauma-Informed Clinicians
from $89.00
March 13th 1:00-3:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom
Social media has become one of the most used marketing channels amongst therapists, yet the current ethical guidelines have failed to provide clear guidance on how to use social media (White, Hanley, 2024). The boundaries between therapists’ personal lives and professional lives have become blurred with social media, dating apps, and online communities (Kolmes & Taube, 2016) . This training will explore the ethical dilemmas therapists face while navigating the complex intersections of technology, dating, and professional ethics for mental health providers.
Participants will explore real-world scenarios that therapists face when their personal and professional worlds collide on social media. We’ll cover scenarios including discovering your clients social media or dating profiles, navigating duals within niched communities, and how to ensure that therapists’ social media platforms are ethical and trauma-informed. This course aims to provide practical frameworks to establish clear boundaries for yourself and your digital presence.
Whether you’re a seasoned clinician adapting new technologies or a newer professional establishing your social media platform, this course will support you in developing tools, policies, and an ethical framework needed to navigate the complex terrain of modern clinical practice.
Learning Objectives:
Identify and analyze the unique ethical challenges social media and technology present for therapists.
Develop and implement a personalized social media and technology policy that aligns with ethical codes of conduct.
Apply ethical decision making frameworks and policies to evaluate complex examples involving dual relationships encountered through social media, dating apps , and niched communities.
Identify key ethical standards to maintain clients confidentiality
Cultivating Healers seeks to provide educational and engaging CEUs with liberatory information, pop-quizzes, and case studies to ensure your learning.
This training is eligible for 2 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors & NY LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs. Cultivating Healers is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
Want to seek your company’s financial support? Check out our request template to make the ask, and sign up using the organizational rate.
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March 13th 1:00-3:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom
Social media has become one of the most used marketing channels amongst therapists, yet the current ethical guidelines have failed to provide clear guidance on how to use social media (White, Hanley, 2024). The boundaries between therapists’ personal lives and professional lives have become blurred with social media, dating apps, and online communities (Kolmes & Taube, 2016) . This training will explore the ethical dilemmas therapists face while navigating the complex intersections of technology, dating, and professional ethics for mental health providers.
Participants will explore real-world scenarios that therapists face when their personal and professional worlds collide on social media. We’ll cover scenarios including discovering your clients social media or dating profiles, navigating duals within niched communities, and how to ensure that therapists’ social media platforms are ethical and trauma-informed. This course aims to provide practical frameworks to establish clear boundaries for yourself and your digital presence.
Whether you’re a seasoned clinician adapting new technologies or a newer professional establishing your social media platform, this course will support you in developing tools, policies, and an ethical framework needed to navigate the complex terrain of modern clinical practice.
Learning Objectives:
Identify and analyze the unique ethical challenges social media and technology present for therapists.
Develop and implement a personalized social media and technology policy that aligns with ethical codes of conduct.
Apply ethical decision making frameworks and policies to evaluate complex examples involving dual relationships encountered through social media, dating apps , and niched communities.
Identify key ethical standards to maintain clients confidentiality
Cultivating Healers seeks to provide educational and engaging CEUs with liberatory information, pop-quizzes, and case studies to ensure your learning.
This training is eligible for 2 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors & NY LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs. Cultivating Healers is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
Want to seek your company’s financial support? Check out our request template to make the ask, and sign up using the organizational rate.
Kenya Crawford (she/they/name), M.A., Ed.M, LMHC, is the CEO of Kenya Crawford Consulting, the Founder of Cultivating Healers, an award-winning licensed psychotherapist, racial equity consultant, and coach creating healing and liberating spaces to dismantle oppressive systems. As the Founder of Cultivating Healers Kenya supports therapists in building anti-racist, sustainable, and inclusive practices through CEU trainings, support groups, and coaching. Over the past decade, Kenya has supported international and domestic clients in their anti-racism journey. Kenya’s work has been featured in Huffington Post, Essence, Mindbody Green, and Popsugar, to name a few.
Due to the nature of this product, all sales are final and we are unable to offer refunds. If you are no longer able to attend a group, email us at info@kenyacrawford.com and we can transfer your confirmation to the following group.
Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0269. Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0736.
Kenya Crawford, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7470.
Reamer, F. (2018). Social work values and ethics. Columbia University Press.
White, E., & Hanley, T. (2024). Current ethical dilemmas experienced by therapists who use social media: A systematic review. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 24(2), 396-418.
Kolmes, K., & Taube, D. O. (2016). Client discovery of psychotherapist personal information online. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 47(2), 147.
Reamer, F. G. (2023). Ethical and Risk Management Issues. The Routledge International Handbook of Digital Social Work.
Zur, O. (Ed.). (2016). Multiple relationships in psychotherapy and counseling: Unavoidable, common, and mandatory dual relations in therapy. Taylor & Francis.
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