Educational Objectives:

This course will teach psychotherapists to
• Summarize the complexities and potential risks and benefits involved in bartering arrangements.
• List the different types of bartering arrangements.
• Define and explain boundary crossings, boundary violations and dual relationships in psychotherapy.
• Utilize guidelines for handling bartering, dual relationships and boundaries in therapy.
• Explain the relationships between bartering, boundary crossings and dual relationships.
• Outline what the different codes of ethics state in regard to bartering.
• Summarize updates of the ethics codes and California law on bartering and offer guidelines for ethical decision making about bartering in therapy.
• Utilize tools to make clinical and ethical decisions with regard to bartering, boundary crossings and dual relationships.

Course Syllabus:

• Evolution of Bartering
• Opposition to Bartering
• Bartering, Boundary Crossing and Dual Relationships.
• Types of Bartering: Goods, Services, Part of a Pro Bono or Low Fee, Others
• Arranging Bartering: Direct Communication, Trade Associations, Online Bartering
• Bartering and the Codes of Ethics
• Case Studies
• Beyond Risk Management
• References
• Guidelines for Bartering in Psychotherapy
• California Regulations on Bartering in Psychotherapy
• Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Psychotherapy:
  • Purpose and Definition
  • Dual Relationships - Key Points
  • Boundaries - Key Points
  • Dual Relationships - Guidelines
  • References to Online Articles and to Online Ethics Codes
  • Arguments Against Dual Relationships and their Rebuttals