Description
Webinar 7. OUR ETHICAL OBLIGATION TO OUR CLIENTS AND TO OURSELVES
6 Ethics HPCSA CPD Points
Part 1 Date: 8 October 2025 – Healthy ethical paranoia when working with clients
Part 2 Date: 29 October 2025 – Healthy ethical practice to look after ourselves
Time: 15:00 – 18:00
Price for Parts 1 & 2 Webinar: R1 100-00 for Both, or R550-00 Each
Total HPCSA CPD’s: 6 Ethics HPCSA CPD Points Total for Both Parts, or 3 CPDs per Part
Workshop Venue: Online
Presenter: Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs
Workshop Outline:
When we choose to become mental health practitioners we choose a lifelong journey of helping people improve and better their mental health AND a lifelong journey of staying ethical in the process.
Yet, we work with people in crisis, at the worst times of their lives; and even though the Health Professions Council’s ethical practice and standards are clear, it is often difficult to comply. It is thus imperative that we stay ethically mindful and constantly ethically awake and that we develop healthy paranoia in our practice with clients. As practitioners we also need to take care of ourselves and develop healthy self-care habits not only in our daily lives but in our offices as well.
Part 1 of this webinar will look at healthy ethical paranoia in our practice and will include:
- Boundary crossings, self-disclosure, dual relationships
- Healthy record keeping practices
- Confidentiality paranoia and what to do
Part 2 of this webinar will focus on the ethical necessity of therapist self-care. We will be discussing:
- Healthy self-care practices for therapists
- When to say NO
- How to charge for sessions and your time
- Time management in sessions
- Taking control of the number of negative narratives in a session
Aims:
- Discuss healthy ethical awareness
- Unpack healthy paranoia in our office
- Understand the difference between boundary crossing and boundary violation
- The necessity of note and record keeping
- Be clear on when to break confidentiality
- Be mindful of good self-care practices in the office
- Manage your time in sessions
- Treat only what you are trained to treat
- Be consistent in your billing
Outcomes of the webinar:
- Stay ethically awake and mindful
- Be aware of ethical necessities like record keeping and boundaries
- Be able to say no
- Be able to implement and keep healthy boundaries
- Protect the client and keep the client safe
- Protect themselves and keep themselves safe
- Financially be compensated for a job done
