Presenter Bio: Kirsten Lind Seal, PhD, LMFT holds an MA in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Lind Seal teaches Ethics at two universities and regularly conducts trainings on Ethics and Cross-Cultural issues at the local, regional and national level. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and Core Ethics Faculty (adjunct) at Chaminade University of Honolulu. She has extensive training in teaching and learning: at Saint Mary’s she was a Teaching Fellow (2013-2014), and she completed the Preparing Future Faculty Certificate Program at the University of Minnesota in 2014. Dr. Lind Seal’s research has been published in Psychology Today, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and Family Process. She has published several case studies and an Ethics-focused “In Consultation” piece in the Psychotherapy Networker and has reviewed for The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (UK). She is currently conducting a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research project examining the impact of her Cultural Context Ethical Decision-Making model on graduate students’ cultural growth and ethical decision-making at Chaminade University of Honolulu. Dr. Lind Seal’s professional memberships are with the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy, for which organizations she has created, presented and recorded numerous trainings and webinars on a variety of Ethical issues. She has been participating in ongoing monthly Anti-Racism groups through NEAFAST for the last four years. She has a completely virtual private practice where she works with individuals, couples and family, and offers ethics consultations to colleagues. She has been interviewed as a content expert by MPR, CNN.com, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune and is in her tenth year as a regular on-air creator/contributor on Relationship Reboot, a weekly segment on relationships on WCCO TV’s Channel 4 (CBS Twin Cities)
Description: Are you Googling your clients? Are they Googling you? How do we think about boundaries when there is so much personal information out there online? What if our previous protocols around self-disclosure no longer serve us or our clients given that self-disclosure may be inadvertent or unknown? And, even more important, how do we talk to our clients about this new reality? Ethical questions and dilemmas abound. The reality is that therapists must better understand the digital world in which we are currently practicing. Though boundary issues are an ongoing challenge traditionally for therapists, this new online reality magnifies the myriad issues surrounding how we manage and conceptualize therapist boundaries and choices around self-disclosure. This session will zero in on the most important aspects of “Self-of-Therapist" work, including practical guidance on boundaries, both traditional and digital, and how to reconceptualize self-disclosure in this new digital age of ours. You will learn how to bring yourself fully into sessions in ways that are both productive and ethical, and that protect you and your clients as you work together. This training will benefit clinicians throughout their careers, especially those clinicians who are not digital natives but digital immigrants. Join us for practical, clinically applicable interventions and new ways of thinking for clinicians of every level.
Objectives:
1. Describe three different “self-of-therapist” orientations and how this might affect the therapeutic alliance and decisions around self-disclosure
2. Develop a usable plan for deciding on when, if and how much self-disclosure to use in session
3. Recognize and name the difference between boundary crossings and boundary violations, both traditional and digital, and explain why this difference is crucial for ethical practice
4. Develop plan in order to better recognize and minimize porous boundaries in clinical practice, both traditionally and digitally (in-person and online) 5. Integrate relevant ethical principles and AAMFT Code of Ethics into managing boundaries and decisions around self-disclosure
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