Setting Ethical Limits: For Caring and Competent Professionals

by Lisa Hutchison

The purpose of this course is to educate helping professionals how to provide compassionate care ethically to those they serve without causing burnout. In addition, members of the public may use this course to enhance their personal knowledge of the subject matter presented.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Define professional competence.
2. Describe the importance of cultural competence.
3. Outline components of the therapeutic relationship.
4. Define empathy and describe the difference between empathy and sympathy.
5. Identify compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout and describe their impact on mental health professionals.
6. Define transference and countertransference and discuss their implications for the mental health professional.
7. Identify the functions of professional boundaries in the therapeutic relationship and multiple relationships.
8. Discuss the guidance on giving and receiving gifts provided by professional ethics codes.
9. Discuss the legal and ethical considerations of providing distance therapy.

This 6-hour continuing education course is available for download for professional development; if continuing education credit is desired, please see instructions included in eBook.

Kindle Edition

Published December 9, 2018

About the author

Lisa Hutchison LMHC, a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts, brings over two decades of psychotherapy expertise to her program designed for caring professionals. This program aims to prevent and address energetic fatigue. Participants, through counseling or spiritual coaching, discover effective strategies to refresh, revitalize, and safeguard their personal energy.

Lisa, as an author, concentrates on the essential knowledge for counselors and helpers to be effective in their roles. She shares insights on what she wished she had known when beginning her career, identifies current learning deficiencies among helping professionals, and discusses the lessons not covered in academic training.

Lisa Hutchison is the Bestselling Amazon Author of I Fill My Cup: A Journal for Compassionate Helpers, Shoot for the Moon: A Manifestation Journal for Compassionate Helpers and is author of Setting Ethical Limits for Caring and Competent Professionals and #1 Bestselling Amazon Counseling Patients at the End of Life. She is an expert writer for CounselingSchools and a CEU faculty member writer for NetCE.

Lisa possesses a sensitivity to energy, which encompasses a psychic connection with angels and spirits. She has been providing angel card readings over the phone and in person since 2014. You can listen to Lisa's readings on her YouTube channel, Lisa Hutchison LMHC.

Lisa provides a nurturing environment for a range of services including psychotherapy, spiritual coaching, angel card readings, and creative writing classes, enabling individuals to express their truth, seek healing, and foster personal growth.

Lisa operates a spiritual mental health practice from Lakeville, Massachusetts, offering sessions in person, over the phone, or online to clients globally. Her counseling services are available to Massachusetts residents in the same formats. Additionally, Lisa is recognized as a national speaker and educator.

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Lisa enjoys spending her time traveling, climbing lighthouses, walking in nature, meditating, writing, and supporting animal rehabilitation efforts.

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