Ethics & Guidelines which help support your Practice

Human service workers are often working with populations that are vulnerable or oppressed. They have the ability to directly improve the quality of life for their clients, but in order to do this well and with integrity, they will need to maintain professional boundaries. In social work, these boundaries are the guiding ethical behavior limits that ensure the client-provider relationship remains professional, safe, transparent, and empowering. Human services providers need to be conscious that they hold a position of power and avoid behaviors that reinforce or exploit that power imbalance. Professional boundaries ensure providers can avoid misconduct as well as unhealthy dependence or inappropriate emotional attachment.

By the end of the workshop, learners will be able to…

1. Understand the structure of the National Human Services Association  Code of Ethics.
2. Identify each of NASW's six values of social work and related ethical principles.
3. Utilize an eight-step ethical decision-making framework to analyze an ethical dilemma using child welfare casework scenarios.
4. Apply the eight-step model to child welfare casework scenarios.
5. Recognize the emotional and cognitive struggle in ethical dilemma resolutions.
6. Utilize self-care techniques, models of best practices, and other resources effectively.

Presenter: Melinda Marasch, LCSW
Aspire Training & Consulting

It is my honor to do exciting work with the amazing, compassionate people in the nonprofit world! It has been my life’s passion to help others, first as a psycho-therapist and now as a consultant. I specialize in clinical supervision in the form of training (in-person and online), as well as individual and group sessions. We serve licensed and unlicensed individuals, as well as programs and organizations. I have expertise in many areas, including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, mental illnesses and much more. I also provide coaching to clients who are motivated to maximize their assets. 

Eligible for 3 hours Certificate of Completion