Common, Often Overlooked Ethical Issues in Counseling Practice

Description: The counseling code of ethics makes sense and is simple in theory. However, counselors work with real people, and real people are messy and do not fit into perfect boxes. This leads to ethical issues arising in daily practice that are not easily recognized. Further, counselors can easily become desensitized to these issues, as they happen so often. This can lead to counselors acting unethically without realizing it, resulting in clients being harmed. This presentation will identify and examine ethical issues that commonly arise in counseling practice that are often overlooked. Practical ways of improving ability to identify issues will be explored, as well as ways of ethically dealing with these issues in the future.

CE Broker Tracking #: 20-1273072

This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify often overlooked ethical issues that commonly arise in counseling practice
2. Evaluate issues that come up in counseling practice through the principles of the counseling profession 
3.  Incorporate into daily practice ways of improving ability to identify, examine, and resolve ethical issues as well as ways of ethically dealing with these issues in the future. 

Leslie Delaney is a licensed mental health counselor in private practice specializing in treating anxiety, depression, eating disorders, OCD, issues with sports performance, and trauma. Her past clinical experience includes working at a long-term inpatient facility for children with Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health; as an outpatient therapist at a children's community mental health facility, Child Guidance Resource Centers in Coatesville, PA, where she worked primarily with Spanish-speaking children and their families; and as an outpatient therapist at a community mental health agency, Central Behavioral Health, in Norristown, PA. Leslie was most recently a primary therapist at Monte Nido Miami, an eating disorder facility, where she worked at the residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels. Leslie received a Masters in Professional Clinical Counseling from La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA and a Masters in Medical Ethics from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. Leslie is passionate about pursuing ethics research in the counseling profession and in making continued professional ethics development attainable for everyone. Leslie recently presented on the ethics surrounding involuntary tube feeds for people with eating disorders and the code of ethics for mental health providers at the Saint André International Center for Ethics and Integrity in France.