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Upcoming Webinars & Presentations by Dr. Zur
| Date | Sponsoring Org. | # of CE | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5/20/22 | CAMFT Annual Convention | 2 | 25 Ways to Protect Your license |
| 5/31/22 (live) | Lutheran Community Services Northwest | 3 | Digital & Telemental Health Ethics |
| 9/24/22 (live) | CPA Annual Convention | 1.5 | Ways to Protect your License |
5/20/22, CAMFT Annual Convention
25 Ways to Protect Your license
Recorded on-demand speaker.
In this 2-hour continuing education workshop, Ofer Zur, PhD, the founder of Zur Institute, will review current standards of care that all licensed marriage and family therapists need to maintain. Dr. Zur will outline 25 specific ways in which therapists need to pay close attention to their practice in order to avoid board complaints or civil lawsuits and keep their licenses. Dr. Zur will also briefly attend to the some of the complex issues related to therapists engaging with clients via texting and social media and some of the main ethical considerations arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and telemental health.
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5/31/2022, 9am-noon PST, 3 CE Credits, 3-hour live webinar in Portland, OR
Digital and Traditional Boundaries and TeleMental Health
The presentation will cover the following topics:
- Defining & identifying the Standard of Care, differentiating between ethical boundary crossings, and unethical boundary violations and reviewing the ethical issues of digital and traditional boundaries and TeleMental Health.
Dealing Ethically with Issues of:
- Digital Boundaries: Social Networking with clients; Yelp exchanges; 'Texting into the night’; Therapists Googling clients; Clients Googling Therapists - Online self-disclosure; Disinhibition effect
- TeleMental Health: Cross States lines; Separate Informed Consent; Verifying clients’ identity-location-age, Emergencies: 911, Duty to warn, Danger to self or others, Child abuse reporting; Internet disruption, security & privacy; Additional Professional Liability policy; Clients, therapists, disorders and testing that are not suitable for TeleMental Health; No physical touch, gifts, etc.
- Traditional Boundaries: Boundary Crossings vs. Boundary Violations; Gifts, Touch; Dual Relationships; Self-disclosure; Bartering; Home visit; Home office; ‘Walk & Talk’ Therapy.
- There will time for polls and Q&A
In the live 3 CE credits webinar, participants will be able to raise questions throughout and at the conclusion of the course.
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Contact info:
Luba Gonina, MA, LPC, LCAT (she, hers)
Clinical Manager
Office: 503-231-7480
E-Mail: lgonina@lcsnw.org
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
605 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
9/24/2022, Wednesday, 1.5 CE Credits,1.5-hour live webinar
26 Ways to Protect Your Psychotherapy License From Licensing Board Investigations and Malpractice Lawsuits
In this 90 min. live presentation Dr. Zur will review current standards of care that all license psychologists and psychotherapists need to maintain. He will outline the 26 ways in which licensed psychotherapists need to pay close attention, in order to keep their licenses secured. The course will also attend to the complex issues related to therapists engaging with clients via texting and social media, issues of dual relationships, and much more.
This 90 min live presentation will be part of California Psychological Association (CPA) Convention to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento, CA.
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Exciting and Engaging Presentations Offered by Dr. Ofer Zur
- 23 ways to protect your psychotherapy, counseling, or social-work private practice license from licensing boards complaints and malpractice lawsuits. (1 hr. Online presentation)
- Truth, myths and faulty beliefs regarding the standard of care of psychotherapy
- Ethics with Soul: Traditional Therapeutic Boundaries and Digital Ethics in the Age of Google and Facebook
- Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Therapy
- Seeing Ourselves on the Silver Screen: Therapists as Viewed in the Movies
Ethics With Soul: Traditional Therapeutic Boundaries and Digital Ethics in the Age of Google and Facebook
The presentation can cover the following topics:
- Making sound ethical decisions in regard to non-sexual, non-exploitative boundary crossings, and dual relationships in psychotherapy.
- Dealing with issues of touch, gifts, self-disclosure, bartering, home visits, home base therapy and many other boundary crossings.
- Defining and differentiating between boundary crossings and boundary violations.
- Dealing with dual relationships in small communities, neighborhoods, and small communities such as rural, church, disabled, gay and lesbian, or ethnic minority communities as well in setting such as military, prison systems and many other situations and settings
- Comprehending the basic issues involved in TeleMental Health (undeniably the way of the future), which includes e-mails, texting, video and phone communications with clients.
- Basing your interventions on clinical rationale and knowledge of the law and ethics, rather than on fear of attorneys and boards.
- Differentiation between the standard of care and rigid risk management practices that are often taught in graduate schools and continuing education workshops.
- Update on the ethics codes and examining ethical decision-making.
- Keeping sound clinical records and developing a treatment plan.
- Responding to subpoenas, boards, and ethics committees' investigations.
- How the internet blurs professional boundaries
- Therapists Googling clients
- Clients Googling therapists - therapists' internet transparency
- Responding to clients’ negative Yelp reviews.
- Basics of dealing with e-mails and texts with clients
- Moving beyond risk management, fear of boards and attorneys in order to be able to provide the highest level of care.
Presentation may include movie clips on therapeutic boundaries from movies, such as Good Will Hunting, Analyze This, What About Bob, Prince of Tides, Ordinary People, Deconstructing Harry, Antwone Fisher, and more.
Fulfillment of requirement
- The course can be adjusted for different states' requirements.
- This course will also qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This course fulfills the California and other states Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP, MFTs, Counselors, Social Workers and other mental health providers.
Boundaries And Dual Relationships In Therapy
The presentation can cover the following topics:
- Defining and identifying boundary crossings, boundary violations, and dual relationships.
- Dealing ethically with issues of touch, gifts, self-disclosure, bartering, home visits, and multiple relationships.
- Dealing with unavoidable dual relationships in small communities, such as rural, church, or ethnic minority communities.
- Basing your clinical interventions on clinical rationale and knowledge of the law and ethics, rather than on fear of attorneys and boards.
- Developing informed consent and keeping sound clinical records in regard to boundary crossings and multiple relationships.
Presentation may include movie clips on therapeutic boundaries from movies, such as Good Will Hunting, Analyze This, What About Bob, Prince of Tides, Ordinary People, Deconstructing Harry, Antwone Fisher, and more.
Fulfillment of requirement
- The course can be adjusted for different states' requirements.
- This course will also qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This course fulfills the California and other states Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP, MFTs, Counselors, Social Workers and other mental health providers.
Seeing Ourselves on the Silver Screen: Therapists as Viewed in the Movies - Excellent educational and entertaining presentation
Want to know how American society sees therapists? Go to the movies or watch a TV series. Projected on the screen have been, literally and figuratively, every fantasy about therapists - good and bad, comic and tragic - that lurk somewhere in the popular imagination.
In this long parade of therapist types, there are wise, daring, confrontative, saintly nurturers (like Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting); therapists who can't keep their private lives from leaking, or pouring, over into their professional life (like Kirstie Alley in her home-office in Deconstructing Harry); noble, anguished souls almost too pained themselves to soothe the pain of others (like Gabriel Byrne of In Treatment); therapists who are buffoonishly inept (like Richard Dreyfuss in What About Bob?); and therapists who are flat-out evil (like Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs).
Whether these screen shrinks make us proud, outrageously embarrassed, sympathetic, or exasperated, they provide revealing perspectives on our own profession and the preconceptions our clients bring to therapy. Get ready for a fascinating journey of discovery as host Dr. Ofer Zur explores what the movies tell us about who we are, what people think we do, and what we can learn from these always entertaining - if not always accurate - film versions of ourselves.
To invite Dr. Zur to present a lecture or a workshop on Ethics and Boundaries or a keynote for your organization on Seeing Ourselves on the Silver Screen: Therapists as Viewed in the Movies, click here.