Digital Ethics and Social Networking in Psychotherapy and Counseling

This presentation will review cutting-edge clinical and ethical complexities that clinicians face in the 21st century. It will review how the Internet and computers have affected the way therapists and clients interact and get informed about each other. It will cover issues such as online transparency, clients Googling therapists, emails and texting between therapists and clients, therapists Googling clients, ways to respond to clients' friend requests on Facebook, and much more. It will also review the evolving standard of care issues and provide guidelines for office policies, informed consent, and ethical ways of record keeping for e-mails, texts, and social networking communications. The course will also explore the digital divide between older therapists (aka "digital immigrants") and younger clients (aka "digital natives") as well as between older and younger therapists and parents and children.

Outline of web conference:

• Psychology of the Web and the Digital Divide
• Effect of modern technologies on psychotherapy and counseling
• Online transparency: clients Googling therapists
• Therapists Googling clients: Is it ethical?
• Use of e-mail in psychotherapy
• Use of texting in psychotherapy
• Clients who text during sessions
• Therapists who text during sessions
• Record keeping of e-mail and texts
• Standard of care and digital ethics
• How to respond to friend requests from clients on Facebook
• Social networking and online marketing

This web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. List the basic elements of digital ethics;
2. Describe ever-increasing online transparencies;
3. Review the impact of technology on psychotherapy;
4. Explain ways to ethically respond to clients' friend requests on social networking sites.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. GoodTherapy.org solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.

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To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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