Two available sessions: 8:30-noon or 1-4:30 p.m.
MLC M.G. Nelson Family Auditorium
This presentation will cover counseling ethics and the guiding principles that professional counselors must follow to ensure they are acting in the best interest of their clients:
- Respecting their autonomy
- Avoiding harm by implementing state laws, HIPAA and ethical codes
- Maintaining confidentiality in a post-pandemic world
- Upholding professional integrity
This event is open to Memorial Health colleagues, as well as other healthcare professionals and community members.
If you are a community member who would like to attend please click here.
If you are a colleague who would like to like to attend please click here.
Speakers:
Jim Klein has been on the counseling faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield for more than 20 years and also serves as the university ombudsman. Jim teaches the program’s ethics course and also spent nearly a decade serving on IDFPR Counseling Licensure and Disciplinary Board.
Tiffany Nielson has a master’s degree in marital, couple and family counseling and a doctorate degree in counselor education and counseling from Idaho State University. She has experience working with children, adolescents, couples and families, including child survivors of sexual abuse and their families and children with diagnoses such as depression, ADHD and anxiety.