Description: In this presentation, participants will learn how to utilize eight principles that can guide ethical decision making in the clinical relationship; how to use countertransference as a gift to avoid ethical dilemmas; how to terminate the clinical relationship in an ethical manner; how to utilize five types of transference and how they can impact ethics; how to establish healthy boundaries in the clinical relationship; and how individual counselor/social worker unfinished business can impact ethics.

Learning Objectives:

1. Utilize 8 principles which can guide ethical decision making

2. Use countertransference as a gift to avoid ethical dilemmas

3. Terminate the clinical relationship in an ethical manner

4. Review 5 types of transference and how they can impact ethics

5. Establish healthy boundaries in the clinical relationship

6. Discuss how individual counselor/social worker unfinished business can impact ethics

Speaker Bio: Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant in the behavioral health field whose work has reached thousands throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, West Indies, and Guam. Mark is the author of five books, which focus on behavioral health. Recent writings include Slipping through the Cracks: Intervention Strategies for Clients Multiple Addictions and Disorders, Recovery Management: and Relationship Detox: Helping Clients Develop Healthy Relationships in Recovery. He has had two stories published in the New York Times best-selling books series, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Mark has been a certified addictions counselor for 34 years. He has received numerous awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois Addiction Counselor Certification Board, the NAADAC prestigious Enlightenment Award, 2 the Barbara Bacon Award for outstanding contributions to the Social Work profession as a Loyola University of Chicago Alumni. Mark is co-founder of Serenity Academy of Chicago, the only recovery high school in Illinois. He is past president of the board of the Illinois Chapter of NAADAC. He has had a 30-year career as a university educator having taught at the University of Chicago, Illinois State University, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, and Loyola University of Chicago, School of Social Work.