Ethics and Boundaries - 3 Session Series

This three-part series equips health care professionals with practical frameworks to navigate complex ethical dilemmas across various levels of practice. Rather than treating ethics as a rigid set of rules, the series addresses the real-world friction where ethical decision-making intersects with personal identity, cultural diversity, and workplace power dynamics. 

Available for free to facility members and $49 per session for non-members. 

When Culture Impacts Decision Making  | Sept 3

This course examines how one’s culture impacts decision making in various treatment settings. Providers are constantly faced with ethical choices resulting in ambiguous outcomes and difficult decisions that may be morally confusing. Understanding cultural concepts enables providers to bridge the difference between themselves and diverse populations. Participants will acquire a better understanding of the ethical decision-making process when cross-cultural conflicts occur while addressing implications of unconscious biases.

Objectives: 

1. Examine personal attitudes, values, beliefs and culture.
2. Recognize and respond appropriately to cultural differences to be linguistically competent and culturally sensitive in interventions with clients and our colleagues.
3. Identify professional and ethical obligations within social work, clinical and human services settings.
4. Utilize and incorporate James Rest’s Four Components Model in ethical decision-making.

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Considerations with Supervision in Cross-Cultural Settings  | Oct 6

Supervisors are responsible for several key factors in supervisees’ development and professional skills. Despite consultation and cultural competence being a standard for practitioners, supervisors are limited in how to provide adequate coaching and mentorship for supervisees from minoritized communities, thus exacerbating the power dynamics between supervisor and supervisee relationship.

Objectives: 

1. Relate the impact of intersectional identities and its trauma on minoritized supervisees during the supervisory process.
2. Utilizing the Systems approach to supervision, increase awareness on effective methods when supervising practitioners of color.
3. Practice applying ethics to understand countertransference and power dynamics in supervisory relationships.
4. Facilitate brave spaces to explore supervisory experiences to reduce biases and microaggressions.

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Practicing Self-Care in An Era of Moral Distress | Nov 3

In today's complex and demanding helping professions, practitioners often find themselves navigating ethical dilemmas and encountering situations that can lead to moral distress. This training course is designed to equip professionals in the human services field with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to address these ethical challenges while prioritizing their own well-being. The course will provide guidance on maintaining healthy boundaries in client interactions, organizational dynamics, and professional relationships. Participants will learn how to navigate ethical dilemmas with integrity and compassion, while safeguarding their own mental health.

Objectives:

1. Define moral distress and learn how to recognize the stages of stress.
2. Recognize the practice of human services and its impact on moral distress and burnout.
3. Develop effective self-care strategies to mitigate burnout.
4. Utilize Kidder’s nine ethical checkpoints to navigate ethical dilemmas of self-care with integrity and resilience.

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Continuing Education Available: Nursing Home Administrator, Social Worker, and certificate of attendance

Presenter: Sheng Lee Yang, CEO, Us 2 Behavioral Health Care 

Sheng is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Perinatal Mental Health–Certified therapist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her career spans human services, healthcare, and higher education, with extensive experience addressing mental health, trauma, and systems change. From 2018 to 2023, Sheng served as a professor in the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay’s Social Work Department and continues to teach continuing education courses on ethics, boundaries, diversity, and leadership. Sheng is the Founder and CEO of Us 2 Behavioral Health Care, a multicultural mental health organization committed to advancing equity and access in behavioral health.