Ethics: Exploring Transference and Counter Transference and its Relationship to Moral Injury
Transference is a psychological phenomenon where emotions, expectations, and experiences from past or desired relationships is projected onto a current relationship. This session will examine the intricacies of transference within the clinical relationship, considering factors that contribute to its emergence on the part of both patient and clinician. We will explore strategies to mitigate its potential negative effects and explore the role of emotional intelligence in addressing compassion fatigue while dealing with complex clinical cases.
Target Audience
ISD Clinical Staff
Learning Objectives
RN & SW Learning Objectives:
- Explain the junction of bioethics and organizational ethics
- Summarize transference/counter transference and strategies to deal with it
- State the connection between transference and moral injury/moral distress
Pharmacy Learning Objectives:
- Assess individual understanding of the principles of transference and how it can adversely influence provider-patient relationships
- Apply strategies within clinical scenarios to mitigate the potential negative impacts of transference on health outcomes across all patient populations
Program begins at 10:00am and ends at 11:00am. Total Education Time = 1 Hour(s) | ||
TIME | CONTENT | PRESENTER |
10:00 – 10:20 am | Review junction of bioethics and organizational ethics | Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc |
10:20 – 10:40 am | Examine transference/counter transference and strategies to deal with it | Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc |
10:40 – 11:00 am | Discuss the connection between transference and moral injury/moral distress | Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc |
Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc
Rebekah Apple, MA, DHSc is the Director of the Master of Medical Management program at Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. She is responsible for the direction and strategy refinement for a degree program exclusively for physicians and serves as faculty for the Organizational Ethics course in the Master of Medical Management program. She works closely with faculty, staff, and external stakeholders to develop and deliver curriculum designed to increase physicians’ business, management, ethics, and leadership acumen. Rebekah has served as health care advisor, educator, and ethicist for over ten years in academic, clinical, and association environments.
She has customized world-known psychometric assessments to suit the clinician population and provides education on a consultant basis to hospitals and health systems throughout the country.
Rebekah currently teaches bioethics to first- and third-year medical students at the University of Pittsburgh and serves on three UPMC ethics committees. She teaches Applied Ethical Analysis to students in varied degree programs at Heinz College as well as the Leadership, Communications, and Organizational Culture graduate course for Mercy College of Ohio.
Rebekah holds a Masters in Bioethics from the University of South Florida and a doctorate in Health Science from A.T. Still University.
In support of improving patient care, 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.
Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides1 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit(s). Pharmacists Only: As required by the ACPE, credits will be uploaded to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). It is the responsibility of the pharmacist/pharmacy technician to provide the correct NABP Board ID and DOB in their UPMC continuing education account, http://cce.upmc.com and complete the evaluation by the required due date. Credit will not be uploaded to the NABP if the process is not complete by the required due date.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 contact hour(s).
This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics. Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for1 CE credit(s).
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 continuing education credit(s).
CCM CE will be provided: 1 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.
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.
NOTE: Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved. This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 ASWB
- 1.00 Attendance