2024 ETHICAL GUIDELINES AND PRINCIPLES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

October 10, 2024

This activity will provide strategies and information that will allow social workers to interact with integrity and ethical competence with their interprofessional teams in scenarios where patients may disagree with treatment recommendations which will benefit the entire treatment team’s ability to deliver care to their patients.

Target Audience

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

Review principles of bioethics and concept of moral sensitivity

Explore challenges to the primacy of autonomy when patients/clients refuse recommendations

Examine morally supportable strategies when working with clients who disagree with recommendations

Additional Information

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File Jewish HC Fdn Right to Say No and Moral Distress_Final 10.10.24 Session.pptx370.96 KB
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/10/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
10/10/2024 - 8:30am EDT
Event ends: 
10/10/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
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This activity will provide strategies and information that will allow social workers to interact with integrity and ethical competence with their interprofessional teams in scenarios where patients may disagree with treatment recommendations which will benefit the entire treatment team’s ability to deliver care to their patients.

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Carol Frazer, MEd, LPC, Behavioral Health Specialist, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative

Bridget McNamee, MID, Behavioral Health Project Manager, Jewish Healthcare Foundation

Ariel Clatty, PhD, Ethics Consultant, University of Pittsburgh

Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc, Director, Master of Medical Management , Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
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