Ethics in the Clinical Relationship & Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice | In-person | Friday, July 19, 2024 | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Mental Health Board, 620 Dakota Street in Crystal Lake | Presented by Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, of On the Mark Consulting. EVENT FLYER

TRAINING IS FULL. TO BE PUT ON THE WAITLIST, EMAIL kdoherty@mc708.org. 
In order to be eligible for CEU’s, you must attend the entire training. Lunch on your own. 

Ethics In the Clinical Relationship

Summary: Topics covered in this skill-building workshop include: principles which guide ethical decision making; diagnosis and ethics; strength based ethical practice; the ethical use of evidence-based practices; the ethics of boundaries, physical touch, self-disclosure and verbal communication; ending helping relationships in an ethical manner; ethics and online counseling.

Objectives: by the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Use principles to guide ethical decision making.
• Work with clients from a strength-based perspective.
• Use ethical principles when making diagnoses.
• Use ethical principles to establish healthy boundaries with clients.
• Examine evidence-based practices from an ethical lens.
• Explore ethics as it pertains to verbal communication with clients.

Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice

Summary: Topics covered in this skill-building presentation include: The differences between cultural competence and cultural humility; What culturally responsive helping professionals do; addressing microaggressions, micro-insults and micro-invalidations in clinical practice; utilizing intersectionality to build rapport with clients cross culturally; integrating cultural responsiveness and evidence based practices; blind spots: how to turn unconscious bias into conscious bias and implications for clinical practice.

Objectives: by the end of this workshop you will be able to:

• Define cultural competence.
• Define cultural humility and culturally responsive practice.
• Address microaggressions in helping relationships.
• Utilize principles of intersectionality to build rapport with clients cross culturally.
• Integrate cultural responsiveness and evidence-based practices.
• Turn unconscious bias into conscious bias.

PRESENTER

Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, is an international speaker and consultant in behavioral health whose presentations have reached thousands throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, West Indies and Guam. He is the recipient of four lifetime achievement awards including the prestigious NAADAC Enlightenment Award. He was one of three finalists for the National Association for Addiction Professionals 50th Anniversary Legends Award. Mark is also the recipient of the Illinois Certification Board’s Professional of the Year Award, The Illinois Certification Board, Jessica Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award and The Barbara Bacon Award for outstanding contributions to the social work profession as a Loyola University of Chicago alumni. 

Mark is the author of five books on behavioral health recovery. Recent writings include: Slipping Through the Cracks: Intervention Strategies For Clients With Multiple Addictions Disorders and Relationship Detox: A Counselors Guide To Helping Clients Develop Healthy Relationships In Recovery. He was lead writer on a trauma informed gun violence prevention curriculum which is being implemented in several large cities in the United States. His groundbreaking monograph Recovery Management co-authored with historians William White and Earnest Kurtz helped shift addictions treatment and recovery from the acute care model solely towards a Recovery Oriented System of Care. Mark has had two stories published in the New York Times bestselling book series, Chicken Soup for The Soul.

Mark has also had a 30 year career as a university educator having taught at The University of Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago and Illinois State University School’s of Social Work. He is co-founder of Serenity Academy Chicago, a program which sponsors recovery-oriented peer groups in local high schools.