Date: December 9th, 2016
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Stonebridge Church, The Woodlands, TX
Fee: $35.00
“Mental Health Ethics and Social Media in the Digital Age”
Program Description:
The Internet and social networking are offering a number of new clinical and ethical challenges for those who provide mental health services. These challenges include extra-therapeutic contacts between therapists and their clients, questions about what distinguishes personal and professional activities online, and a lack of clearly developed policies related to our online behaviors and interactions.
This workshop offers an introduction to digital ethics and social networking sites and activities. The presenters provide guidelines for how to manage the concerns that may arise for practitioners who are using social media sites, especially Facebook and LinkedIn. Applicable ethical standards for professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers will be addressed. With a keen understanding of how to ethically participate in social media, participants will leave the workshop with a social media policy applicable to their practice.
Objectives: By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to . . .
- Distinguish between one’s personal and professional activities on the Internet.
- Identify the ethical challenges that may arise from engaging in activities on the Internet.
- Identify and describe social media sites and learn best practices for the use of two popular social media sites – Facebook and LinkedIn.
- Develop strategies for minimizing the risk of ethical violations on the Internet.
- Learn the relevant ethical issues that pertain to therapists’ web sites and social networking profiles.
- Write an ethical social media policy to use in their practice with clients.