Social workers frequently encounter complex ethical challenges involving boundaries and dual relationships. Examples include navigating relationships with clients when practitioners live and work in small or rural communities; managing practitioner self-disclosure; managing friendships and social contact with current and former clients; managing favors, gifts, and invitations; hiring of former clients; and managing online and social networking relationships and communications, among others. Using extensive case material, Dr. Frederic Reamer will acquaint participants with a typology of boundary issues and dual relationships.

What’s Happening in 2025 for Private Practitioners

Presenter: Mirean Coleman, LICSW, CT, NASW Director of Clinical Practice

For informational purposes only. No CEs will be issued.

Incorporating Cultural Competence as a Tool for Providing Ethical Private Practice

Presenter: Karen Bullock, PhD, LICSW, NASW National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity

For informational purposes only. No CEs will be issued.

Presenter: Mirean Coleman, LICSW, CT

NASW Director of Clinical Practice

For informational purposes only. No CEs will be issued.

In the midst of stress and chaos sometimes we are advised to just start by doing one thing: drink more water. Or, we want to make a change but we don't. We want to be more healthy and we can't even do the simplest thing: drink more water. This workshop will help bring a new understanding to why we do the things we do by teaching the components of the IFS model, such as multiplicity of personality and the Authentic Self.