About this course

Learning Objectives

• Identify ethical issues related to their use of technology to serve clients.
• Apply ethical, regulatory, and practice standards to protect clients.
• Apply ethical, regulatory, and practice standards to prevent ethics complaints and ethics-related litigation.

Learning Levels

• Intermediate
• Advanced

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.

  Professor Emeritus

  Frederic Reamer is professor emeritus in the graduate program, School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. His teaching and research focus on professional ethics, criminal justice, mental health, health care, and public policy. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers in 1996 and has served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers, Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed technology standards for the profession. Dr. Reamer has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics, including in India, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and in various European nations. His books include Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints; Social Work Values and Ethics; Risk Management in Social Work; The Social Work Ethics Casebook; Ethical Standards in Social Work; Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services; Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Behavioral Health; Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services; and The Social Work Ethics Audit, among others. Dr. Reamer has served as an expert witness in many court and licensing board cases throughout the United States.

Disclosure

References

• Reamer, Frederic G. (2017). Evolving ethical standards in the digital age. Australia Social Work, 70(2): 148-159.
• Reamer, Frederic G. (2018). Ethical standards for practitioners’ use of technology: Emerging consensus. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, 15(2): 71-80.
• Reamer, Frederic G. (2018). Evolving standards of care in the age of cybertechnology. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 36(2): 257-269.
• Reamer, Frederic G. (2021). Ethics and risk management in online and distance social work. San Diego: Cognella Academic Press.
• Reamer, Frederic G. (2015). Risk management in social work: Preventing professional malpractice, liability, and disciplinary action. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Steinberg, L., Alpert, J., & Courtois, C., Eds. (2021). Sexual boundary violations in psychotherapy. American Psychological Association.
• Zur, O. (Ed.). (2016). Multiple relationships in psychotherapy and counseling: Unavoidable, common, and mandatory dual relations in therapy. Taylor & Francis.