Webinars

Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling (Part 1):
Competence, Consent, Confidentiality
With Louis Gamino, PhD, FT
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Webinar Time:
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EDT
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. CDT
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MDT
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. PDT
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. HADT
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Ethical dilemmas are an inevitable part of counseling practice for any healthcare professional.  For those difficult times, are you familiar with a credible, accessible decision-making model to apply? How do you know what is the best thing to do for clients and families, while at the same time honoring your professional standards and maintaining personal integrity?

In this webinar, Dr. Louis Gamino will teach his "Five P Model" for ethical decision-making and demonstrate its application with problems related to ensuring professional competence, securing informed consent and preserving confidentiality in grief counseling.

Participants will gain familiarity with a practiced decision-making strategy as well as knowledge of the key ethical principles and grief counseling issues involved.

Learning Objectives:
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Articulate a working definition of death competence for grief counselors.
2. Describe the elements of informed consent desirable in a contemporary practice of grief counseling.
3. List eight common exceptions to confidentiality encountered in grief counseling.

This is one of two webinars Dr. Gamino will offer on ethics in counseling in 2010. Those professionals who are required to earn three credit hours with a concentration in ethics can fulfill that requirement by attending both webinars and completing the CE evaluation.

About your instructor:

Louis A. Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology on staff with the Scott & White Healthcare in Temple, Texas. Dr. Gamino is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine where he teaches medical students and resident physicians about psychological aspects of dying, death and bereavement. He is Program Director for the Scott & White Bereavement Conferences held biennially in September since 1997.

Dr. Gamino’s research in bereavement is focused on adaptive grieving after loss. He is the author of Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling (2009, Springer Publishing Company) and When Your Baby Dies Through Miscarriage or Stillbirth (2002, Augsburg Fortress; now translated in Italian). He is former editor of The Forum, the quarterly publication of the Association for Death Education and Counseling® (ADEC). In recognition of excellence in clinical care of the dying and the bereaved, Dr. Gamino was the 2008 recipient of ADEC’s Clinical Practice Award.

CE Credits: 1.5
Nursing Contact Hours: 1.5

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Cancellations for this session will be accepted through end of business on Monday, June 14, 2010. Registrants who cancel within that time will receive a refund, minus a $10 service fee. Cancellations received after that day will not be refunded.