Ethics and the Treatment of Spiritual Problems

Ethics & the Treatment of Spiritual Problems

A Workshop for LPCs, ALCs, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychiatric Nurses, Addiction Counselors and other Mental Health Clinicians

Presenter: Andrea Mathews, LPC, PhD
Friday, March 11, 2016
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Registration begins at 8:30 am

Homewood Public Library
1721 Oxmoor Road, Homewood, AL 35209

                                                                                           Register HERE

ACA has already approved the “Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling” put out by ASERVIC in 2009, and several other clinical boards approve a language for multicultural care that necessarily includes religious multiculturalism.  Have you increased your competencies to the level required in this area?  This workshop is meant to facilitate the building of your skills to the required level. It is intended to increase and enhance the current dialogue about how to be ethically responsible for the spiritual issues that arise in therapy.  Given that these issues are extremely common among our typical client population, it is time we learn how to deal effectively with these myriad religious and spiritual issues from an ethical and competent interfaith/interspiritual perspective. 

OBJECTIVES

Participants will define spiritual abuse, spiritual wounding, spiritual crisis, transpersonal and other spiritual issues, likely to present in therapy.
Participants will learn of the various ethical concerns regarding the therapeutic treatment of spiritual problems.
Participants will gain knowledge regarding spiritual diversity, particularly with regard to the accepted core competencies.
Participants will gain knowledge of the various transference/countertransference issues that may arise while working with spiritual problems and various ways to deal with them ethically and effectively.

                                                                                          Register at:
                                                                          www.andreamathews.com/events

                          REGISTER ONLINE $75                                                                             REGISTER AT THE DOOR $90            

                      (No Refunds after February 29)                                                                              (Cash or Check ONLY!)

Andrea Mathews, LPC, PhD has been approved as an NBCC Continuing Education Provider, ACEP provider # 6031.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Andrea Mathews, LPC, PhD, is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.