Workshop Description

Are you allowed to work with students in your private practice? What do you tell parents? How should you handle gifts? Are you a mental health professional, educational personnel, or both? School Social Workers are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but the obligation isn’t always so easy to discern. This session focuses on the scope of service and ethical and legal responsibilities of social work practice in an education setting.  Issues of boundaries, complicated confidentiality responsibilities, relationships with students and family members, and unique roles in the school community will all be explored. 

NOTE: This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries (effective April 2023).

This course is not New York state specific and can satisfy the ethics and boundaries training requirements for any state.

Learning Objectives

After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of School Social Workers to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with the students and families they serve. 
• Describe how to apply a framework for ethical decision-making in the school environment.   
• Define dual relationships within a school and community setting. 
• Explain how to demonstrate that a youth/student has not been exploited or coerced, intentionally or unintentionally.

Continuing Education Credits: 3.0

This workshop is approved for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed psychologists.

Fees

• NASW-NY Member - $45.00
• Other Chapter Members (e.g., NASW-NJ, etc.) - $75.00
• Non-Member - $90.00
• NASW-NY Student and Transitional Member (Non-CE Eligible) - $0.00

Presenter: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W.

Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W., Principal Consultant with Krase Consultant, is an expert on the professional reporting of suspected child maltreatment. She has authored multiple books and articles on the subject. She has years of experience consulting with government and community based organizations to develop policy & practice standards.

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