Mental health professionals are ethically tasked with maintaining their own competence and engaging in ongoing self-assessment and corrective actions when indicated. Unfortunately, this approach is ill-fated and inconsistent with our obligations to our clients. This webinar addresses the limitations of this approach, the ethical mandate to maintain our clinical competence, and how a communitarian approach to self-care is what works most effectively. Guidance will be provided on how to develop one’s personal self-care plan to help prevent burnout and problems with professional competence while promoting one’s wellness, thriving, and flourishing as a mental health clinician. The role of colleagues in this endeavor and the use of competence constellations will be emphasized. Each participant will learn how to develop their personal wellness plan that they will each hopefully implement moving forward.
References:
Johnson, W. B., Barnett, J. E., Elman, N. S., Forrest, L., & Kaslow, N. J. (2013). The competence constellation model: A communitarian approach to support professional competence. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 44(5), 343–354. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033131
CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) OBJECTIVES
Following this presentation, participants will be able to:
1) Identify the sources of distress in their life
2) Explain how self-assessment of one’s competence is ineffective
3) Articulate how a competence constellation should be used to promote and maintain their clinical competence and ongoing effective functioning.
This presentation is intended for licensed mental health professionals. Although advanced graduate student trainees with clinical experience are welcome, note that the instructional level of this presentation is beginner with assumption of postdoctoral participants.
About the presenter
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Psy.D., ABPP (he/him/his) is a licensed psychologist and is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology and in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Additionally, he is a Distinguished Practitioner in Psychology of the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Barnett also is a Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Maryland. He has served as chair of the ethics committees of the Maryland Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Board of Professional Psychology. He also has served as the Vice Chair of the Maryland Psychology Licensing Board. Dr. Barnett has numerous publications to include 13 books and over 250 articles and book chapters and over 400 professional presentations that focus on ethics, legal, and professional practice issues for mental health professionals.
This presentation is intended for licensed mental health professionals and advanced graduate student trainees with clinical experience. The instructional level of this presentation is beginner for a post-doctoral audience.
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is emerging as a novel form of mental health treatment that has been shown to be highly effective in early clinical trials. This workshop will provide an overview of this new clinical area. First, a history of the use of psychedelics will be reviewed that includes an appreciation for their long-standing use by many indigenous cultures. Next, the two major waves of psychedelic research will be summarized, with emphasis on more recent and rigorous clinical trials. The basic model of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy will be explained so that workshop participants will have a better sense of how this treatment works. The workshop will highlight the importance of preparation and integration, as well as how to use a harm reduction approach to provide therapeutic support to clients using psychedelics on their own now. Finally, the workshop will outline the ethical and legal risks for practicing psychedelic harm reduction and integration therapy given the legal status of psychedelics and that it is a new clinical area.
This presentation is intended for licensed mental health professionals and graduate student trainees. The instructional level of this presentation is beginner and no prior knowledge or experience with psychedelics is necessary.
Brian Pilecki, PhD: Dr. Brian Pilecki is a clinical psychologist at Portland Psychotherapy that specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, trauma and PTSD, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. He graduated from Fordham University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Brian practices from an orientation based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has extensive experience in the areas of mindfulness and meditation that he incorporates into therapy with clients. At Portland Psychotherapy, Brian is an active researcher and a study therapist on a clinical trial investigating the use of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of social anxiety disorder and understanding processes of change in how this novel form of treatment might work. He has given numerous workshops on topics related to psychedelics and is a consultant and instructor for Fluence, an organization that provides professional training in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration. Brian is co-chairperson for the Psychedelic Special Interest Group in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and co-hosts a podcast called Altered States of Context about the intersection of psychedelics and psychotherapy.
This presentation is intended for licensed mental health professionals and graduate student trainees. The instructional level of this presentation is beginner.
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