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Ethical Dilemmas: Managing Risk with Clarity (2HR)

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Build your ethical decision-making skills for tough clinical situations. The workshop covers frequent ethical challenges such as confidentiality dilemmas, dual relationships, informed consent complications and high-risk clients. Case studies, discussion and practical frameworks teach you to assess risk, uphold ethical standards and answer dilemmas with confidence and integrity. You will take away concrete strategies for working through ethical gray areas while protecting clients and your practice.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to

  • Identify different types of ethical dilemmas
  • Identify ways to protect clients ethically
  • Implement best practices to protect oneself ethically as a clinician

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Introduction

Objective #1: Identify different types of ethical dilemmas

  • Dual relationships
  • Confidentiality
  • High-risk clients

Objective #2: Identify ways to protect clients ethically

  • Client autonomy
  • Do no harm
  • Supervision

Objective #3: Implement best practices to protect oneself ethically as a clinician

  • Informed consent
  • Managing counter-transference

Summary/Q&A

Social workers completing this course receive 2 Ethics asynchronous continuing education credits.

For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 2 Ethics continuing education training.

Instructor: Dreya Blume, LCSW

Recording Date: July 18, 2025

CEUS On-Demand, LLC, provider #2274, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/7/2026 - 08/6/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 2hrs Ethics continuing education credits.  

CEUs On-Demand, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEUs On-Demand, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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Request for Special Accommodations: Learners can request special accommodations by contacting the administrative team at admin@ceus-ondemand.com


Course Instructor: Dreya Blume is a licensed clinical social worker, with her MSW from Radford University and an MA in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. Dreya has twenty years of experience working in mental health, from case management to intensive in-home services to leading groups for addicts in recovery. Dreya began a part-time counseling practice in 2004, and as a psychotherapist, her focus has been on serving the LGBTQ+ community. Dreya also has been a teacher for thirty years. Prior to her career in social work, she taught English in places such as Japan, Thailand, Australia, and Hawaii. Since 2010, Dreya has been an adjunct professor for Virginia Western Community College, preparing future social workers for the field. In her spare time, Dreya loves to write. She is the author of a number of books (published under her former name, Andy Matzner), including “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” and “The Buddha Diet: A Guide to Creating a Positive Relationship with Food and Eating.”

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