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Earn C.E. Credits in a Few Hours
Boundaries and the Movies: Learning about Therapeutic Boundaries through the Movies
6 CE Credits - Online Course - $60.00
Co-Developed by Birgit Wolz, Ph.D., and Ofer Zur, Ph.D.
Course fulfills the California and other states' ethics and law requirement.
Course may qualify for insurance discount. Check with your insurer.
CE Credits for Psychologists (APA), MFTs & LCSWs (BBS)
Social Workers (ASWB), Counselors (NBCC) and Nurses (BRN)
Save time & money with our Online Packages.
Movie Lover Package:
Four online courses that are based on popular films (20 CE)
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3. Submit online evaluation & post-test.
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GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This unique course will use popular movies to teach therapists ethical issues. This course focuses on the following topics: informed consent, gifts, home office, clothing, language, humor and silence, proximity and distance between therapist and client, and, finally, sexual relations between therapist and client. Each of the above topics is reviewed in depth followed by a series of movie vignettes and ethical commentary on the vignettes.
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Themes in movies have long shown a fascination with therapeutic boundaries. Good Will Hunting shows a counselor who grabs his client and uses foul language. Antwone Fisher describes a client who presents the gift of a poem to his therapist when he is invited to a family dinner. Prime demonstrates several accidental self-disclosures that a home office location can produce. Ordinary People shows how a therapist's clothing can make a client feel comfortable and help build a therapeutic alliance. Several movies, such as Basic Instinct, Bliss and Mr. Jones, depict the ultimate boundary issue -- sexual relationships between therapist and client. Prince of Tides puts a twist on boundaries and depicts a sexual relationship between a therapist and the client's brother.
Our other movies/ethics course, Therapeutic Ethics and the Movies, addresses different topics: Confidentiality, Self-Disclosure, Touch, Dual Relationships and Out-Of-Office Experiences. Click here.
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Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
- Apply their decision-making process to legal and ethical considerations for Informed Consent, Gifts, Home Office and Sexual Relationships.
- Ethically utilize considerations regarding therapists' and clients' Clothing and the use of Language.
- Ethically utilize decisions around Proximity to a client.
- Apply updates on professional organizations' codes of ethics and state law to the issue of Sexual Relationships with clients.
- Further utilize their ability for critical thinking as it pertains to ethical decision-making.
Course Syllabus:
- Informed Consent: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Informed Consent in the Movies (i.e., Good Will Hunting, Antwone Fisher, Girl Interrupted, Grosse Pointe Blank)
- Gifts: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Gifts in the Movies (i.e., Antwone Fisher, Bliss, Dressed to Kill, K-Pax, Prime, What About Bob? )
- Home office: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Home Office in the Movies (i.e., Antwone Fisher, Bliss, Deconstructing Harry, Dress to Kill, K-Pax, Francis, Prime)
- Clothing: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Clothing in the Movies (i.e., Bliss, Ordinary People)
- Language and Silence: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Language and Silence in the Movies (i.e., Antwone Fisher, Dressed to Kill, Frances, Girl Interrupted, Good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank, K-Pax, Prime, What About Bob? )
- Proximity: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Proximity in the Movies (i.e., Frances, Girl Interrupted, Good Will Hunting, K-Pax, Prime, Mr. Jones, Prince of Tides, What About Bob? )
- Sexual Relations: Ethical and Clinical Considerations
- Sexual Relations in the Movies (i.e., Basic Instincts, Bliss, Dressed to Kill, Girl Interrupted, Mr. Jones, Prince of Tides, Stay)
- Code of Ethics on Informed Consent, Home Office, Proximity & Sexual Relationships
- California Law in Regard to Therapeutic Boundaries
- References and Resources
For Author's Bio, Click Here.
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