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Ethics and Supervision

Upcoming Classes

CEP13-ETHICS: Healthy Healer, Healthy Ethics

Ernesto Santistevan, Ph.D.

Saturday, June 29, 9am–4:30pm, $120/6 CECs

This workshop will attempt to illustrate how the cause of most ethical and unethical behavior is not a lack of basic knowledge, but is related to the use and misuse of the strengths that bring us into this field. We will address:

•Principles of ethics of the American Counseling Association and the American Psychological Association.

•Personal and professional factors influencing the application of ethical principles, identifying vulnerabilities, and building resilience as the core of an ethical approach.

•Individual factors including therapist fatigue and counter- transference.

•Staying healthy, balanced and managing risk.

•The applicability of ethical principles to clinical practice with regard to:

–Higher risk clients

–Managing requests for information in different situations

–Electronic records and communication

–Social media

–Specific ethical areas identified by workshop participants

 Dr. Santistevan is currently the director of the CARE Program of the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute in Las Vegas. This program provides services to adolescents who have a major mental illness and sexually harmful behaviors. He maintains a small private practice offering psychological testing, individual and family therapy.

CEP13-SPVSN: Creative Approaches to the Supervisory Process

Thursday, August 22, 2–5pm,  $60/3 CECs

Webb Garrison, Ph.D. 

Accessing and utilizing creative energies and impulses are essential skills in providing both effective psychotherapy and supervision. In this workshop, various creative approaches to supervision will be presented and explored. Additionally, participants will be asked to share creative and innovative approaches that they have used within the supervisory process.

 Webb Garrison, Ph.D., has worked in academic, research, and clinical settings, including community mental health, adolescent group homes, nursing/rehabilitation facilities, and private practice. Throughout his career, he has sought to integrate spiritual, psychological, and educational principles in concrete ways that positively impact local communities. Dr. Garrison is the academic dean of Southwestern College.