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about the conference
Staying Clinically Centered
in an Online World
Laura W. Groshong, LICSW
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Friday, September 28, 2012
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Laura W. Groshong, LICSW
6 Ethics CEU Hours Available
Staying Clinically Centered
in an Online World
“I Googled You!”
Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work
PO Box 77264
Seattle, WA 98177
“I Googled You!”
Friday, September 28, 2012
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
presented by
The WA State Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers
and
Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work
What:
Almost everyone in the world
today, including mental health
professionals, has some kind of
online identity. Mindful
crafting of our online identities
is crucial to developing solid
treatment relationships in
which treatment boundaries
are maintained. An awareness
of the meaning of Internet
communication with clients is
also necessary. What has come
to be known as “social media,”
or websites which allow people
to discuss in varying levels of
detail their personal and public
lives, has changed the world.
Mental health professionals
need to be as mindful as
possible about the impact their
Internet identities can have
upon their clinical work. Your
online presence is a form of
self-disclosure and a responsibility all clinicians need to
consider.
Join us for a discussion on
clinical issues the evening
before on Friday, September
28.
Where:
University of Washington
School of Social Work
Room 305 A/B
4101 15th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105
When:
Pre-Conference Clinincal
Discussion
Friday, September 28, 2012
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
All Day Conference
Saturday, September 29, 2012
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
registration opens at 8:30 a.m.
Events schedule:
8:30 – 9:00 am
Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 12:30 pm
Clinical Presentation
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 4:15 pm
Clinical Presentations
4:15 – 4:30 pm
Evaluations and CEUS
Continuing education:
2.5 CEUs for pre-conference
6 ethics CEUs for the full
day conference.
CEUs for social workers, marriage
and family therapists, mental health
counselors and associates of these
groups.
Directions, map & parking
information:
Found on the WSSCSW
website & in the registration
confirmation email.
Questions:
Contact the registrar Aimee
Roos at admin@wsscsw.org
For more information, go to
www.wsscsw.org
more information
There is a continuum of the
ways that mental health
professionals have a presence
on the internet, from professional websites for business
purposes to personal websites
for social purposes. The
permanence of information on
the internet is important in
deciding what information to
post, professionally or personally. The type of treatment that
the clinician conducts may
have some impact on the
degree to which a clinician
reveals personal details of his or
her life. The success of coaching or case management may
not be as affected by a patient’s
access to personal information
about the clinician as psychotherapy, particularly psychodynamic psychotherapy, where
personal knowledge about the
therapist’s life may hinder the
development of the transference. Further, the information
about the clinician that a
patient gleans from the
internet may not be brought
into the treatment. The
meaning such information has
to the patient may be kept
unconscious and unavailable to
the reflective treatment
process. It is certain that
patient will read meaning into
any information posted about
the clinician, driven partly by
the type of nascent transference that they have to the
registration
clinician. Fears and wishes may
be hidden if the patient’s views
of internet information about
the clinician, and the desire to
find such information, are not
explored.
While privacy has always been
a major tenet of clinical ethics,
the arrival of the Internet has
vastly changed the ways that
privacy is maintained. Any
information on the Internet is a
form of self-disclosure, but one
that has a more ambiguous
meaning than the information
we choose to selectively share
with patients in the privacy of
our offices. Having a Facebook
page, even have one that is
“private,” will have meaning to
a patient. The analytic precept
of being a “blank slate” has
long been questioned in terms
of giving a patient no
information about the therapist
as a person (Goldstein, 1999).
Thoughtful self-disclosure,
however, is light years away
from posting personal
information on the Internet.
The use of the Internet for
professional purposes is also a
disclosure that patients would
not have had access to 10-15
years ago, which may have
ambiguous meaning to the
patient.
Conference objectives:
Provide an overview of
professional and personal
websites and the possible
impact on treatment
Review meanings and
possible complications of
Internet communication
between clients and clinical
social workers.
Apply codes of ethics, state
and federal laws/rules
concerning client privacy to
the use of the Internet:
1) by patients and clinical
social workers to find
information about each
other and
2) as a means of communication between
patients and clinical
social workers.
About our Sponsors:
The WA State Coalition of
Mental Health Professionals
and Consumers, and the WA
State Society for Clinical
Social Work, are
collaborating to bring you
this conference because of
their mutual dedication to
ethical practice and
legislative advocacy. For
more information about the
mission and activities of
these organizations, visit
www.wacoalition.org and
www.wsscsw.org.
About the Presenter:
Laura Groshong, LICSW, BCD
earned her Masters in Social
Work in 1974 from the School
of Social Service
Administration at the
University of Chicago and
received advanced training in
Adult Psychotherapy at
Seattle Psychoanalytic
Institute. She has been in
private practice with
individuals, couples, and
families for 32 years.
“I Googled You!”, Staying Clinically Centered in an Online World
Laura W. Groshong, LICSW
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Since 1996, she has worked as
a Registered Lobbyist in the
state of Washington for eight
mental health groups, passing
several bills promoting access
to mental health treatment.
Since 2006, she has served as
Director of Government
Relations for the Clinical Social
Work Association, a national
organization which advocates
on behalf of clinical social
workers.
Ms. Groshong has written
several articles on legislative
activity and co-authored
social work licensure laws in
ten states. Published in 2009
her book, Clinical Social Work
Regulation and Practice,
compares clinical social work
licensure laws and scopes of
practice across all states and
jurisdictions in the US.
Course fees (includes CE credit):
Friday preconference
WSSCSW/Coalition member
$40
Nonmember
$50
early registration
by Sept 8, 2012
after
Sept 8, 2012
WSSCSW/Coalition member
$110
$125
WSSCSW associate member
$95
$110
Student
$80
$95
Nonmember
$125
$140
Saturday full-day conference
Cancellation policy: Fees may be refunded, minus a $30 administrative charge, up to
Sept 8th. No refunds will be allowed after Sept 8, 2012. No refunds for the
pre-conference due to administration fees associated with registration.
Make your checks out to WSSCSW and mail with this form to:
Aimee Roos, Registrar,
c/o WSSCSW, PO Box
, Seattle, WA
Register & pay online at www.wsscsw.org