Linda Bianchi
Caldwell Auditorium
Friday March 3
9am to noon 3 CE credits
Registration
Regular Registration Rate: $60
Current NCSSS Field Instructor Rate: $45
Current NCSSS Student Rate: $25
Different traditions offer varying opinions on therapist self-disclosure. How can you determine whether a disclosure is appropriate in context, and adheres to the ethical treatment of a given client? This experiential workshop will use the technique of “future projection” to explore real-life, garden-variety self-disclosures that therapists make to clients. In a lab-like setting, participants will have the opportunity to enact and discuss the ramifications of self-disclosure. In slowing down the process through action, “choice points” can be assessed, and different possibilities can be considered without negative consequences. Discussion and processing will round out the experiential focus as peers benefit from each other’s wisdom and perspectives.
Objectives
- Identify and discuss ethical issues surrounding self-disclosure in a clinical relationship, using guidelines from literature on boundaries.
- Use action to explore clinically sound and ethically appropriate variations in self-disclosure.
- Practice a take-away technique to continue to refine ethical decision-making skills.
Linda Bianchi is licensed in DC and Virginia as a clinical social worker, and is nationally certified as a trainer, educator, and practitioner in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy. She worked for twelve years at the D.C. Department of Mental Health, where she was part of the award-winning psychodrama section. Practice settings have included inpatient psychiatric hospitals, community-based agencies, private practice, and an employee assistance program.