Description
Moral Injury in Behavioral Health Care: Ethics in the Big Picture | May 23 and 24, 2023; 8:30 AM to 11:45 AM | 6 Contact Hours | One 15-minute break a day
Clinicians receive ethical guidance in our work from professional ethics codes, employer or payer requirements, and the law. In the “big picture” of our society, however, struggles between right and wrong affect both our clients and ourselves all the time. It is much less clear how we can resolve these moral dilemmas, if they can be resolved at all. This workshop will present moral injury as a psychosocial phenomenon leading to mental health distress and other harmful effects. Participants will learn to work with moral injury in clients and in their own professional lives.
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Learning Objectives
1. Define moral injury and understand its causes and consequences
2. Become familiar with existing research on moral injury across contexts
3. Gain skills to recognize and address moral injury in clients with mental health and/or substance use disorders
4. Explore sources of moral injury in working as a mental health provider, and learn strategies to address it
Learning Outcome
Learn to work with moral injury in clients and in your own professional life
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About the Presenter
Rosalie Genova, LCPC, CCS
Rosalie Genova is private practitioner in Portland. She specializes in clients who work in public service fields such as education, health care, social services, and the military. Before opening her practice, she worked in recovery residences, intensive outpatient, and partial hospital settings. Rosalie also holds a PhD in US History, and is interested in the social and cultural context of mental health distress and treatment.
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Criteria for Successful Completion
100% Attendees required to participate and be present in the full duration of the learning activity and complete/submit an evaluation form. Partial credit will not be awarded.
Conflict of Interest
This educational activity does not include any content that relates to the products and/or services of a commercial interest that would create a conflict of interest. There are no individuals in a position to control content for this activity or have any relevant financial relationships to declare.
Commercial Support
There is no commercial support being received for this CNE offerings.
Approval Statement
CCSME is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Contact Hours
- 6 contact hours for nurses
- 6 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals
- 6 Category I contact hours for psychologists are provided. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
- 6 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
- 6 contact hours pending for alcohol and drug counselors from the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors