Course Overview
Using ethical humility when working with adolescents allows professional expertise and client self-advocacy to complement one another. Ethical decision-making is particularly challenging with adolescents because legal rights, ethical concerns, and guidelines change as clients age. An ethical humility framework enables you to support your client’s growth and development while upholding your professional responsibilities.
Exploring the micro and macro levels of ethical humility in your work with adolescents ensures that you support your clients’ rights to self-advocacy in your professional role. The complex interplay of individual and parental rights with varied laws and guidelines requires careful consideration. As a child progresses from adolescence to adulthood, their decision-making capacity evolves. Developing an ethical decision-making process ensures that adolescent clients receive appropriate care from professionals. Adopting an ethical humility perspective strengthens the professional’s ability to meet the client where they are.
Ethical decision-making is crucial for all professionals working with adolescents. This intermediate-level virtual course is appropriate for psychologists, social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals who work with adolescents in their practice.
In this training you will be able to...
Describe the framework of ethical humility as applied to working with adolescents.
Describe the impact of changing developmental stages in addressing ethical dilemmas with adolescents.
Utilize ethical humility principles in communication with their clients to prevent, assess, and manage ethical dilemmas.
Develop a plan regarding professional consultation to address ethical dilemmas.
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Laura Gaines, MSW, LISW-S
Laura Gaines, MSW, LISW-S. Laura is a trainer and researcher with a current focus on resilience as an individual and community skill. She has been an Ohio Child Welfare Training Program trainer and curriculum developer for over 20 years. Laura has served as a volunteer on the Crisis Text Line since April 2020.
Her career experiences include being a child and adolescent therapist for over 20 years, and 15 years working with children and adults who have developmental disabilities, thus providing thousands of opportunities to work with clients and their families in moments of crisis. Laura has specialized training in Trauma Informed Care and presented at the 2021 Ohio Children’s Alliance conference: Eighth Annual Trauma Informed Care Summit. Her trainings focus on child development, mental health, developmental disabilities, ethics, trauma-informed care, resilience, and each person’s individual solutions to their life’s challenges.