Frontline Ethics: Issues in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling

Frontline Ethics: Issues in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling

Date:

Wednesday, April 9 at 9:30 AM CDT

Registration Fee:

Free

Program Description:

Ethical issues and dilemmas challenge the practitioner. What are the guiding principles that inform ethical decision-making? How do the codes of ethics under which clinicians practice fit with the guiding principles? This preview of our focuses on the use of the guiding principles, the codes of ethics, and practice applications.

Program Presenter:

Peggy J. Keilholz, ACSW, CASAC is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Advanced Substance Abuse Counselor in Missouri. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW), a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.In addition to maintaining a private practice in individual, couples, and family therapy, Peggy teaches part-time in the Family Therapy Specialization at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis. She is a past President of the St. Louis Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. From 2005-2007 she served as the Ethics Chair for the Missouri Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

During 24 years in practice Peggy has worked with numerous individuals and families coping with alcoholism and drug addiction and chronic mental and physical conditions. She has presented numerous workshops on social work ethics. Peggy received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Fontbonne College, a Master of Arts in Religion and Education from St. Louis University, and a Master of Social Work from Washington University in

St. Louis.

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