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GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This intermediate-level course explores the complexities of bartering in the context of boundary crossings and dual relationships in psychotherapy. The course maps types of bartering (i.e. goods, services), discusses the relationships between and definitions of bartering, boundary crossing and dual relationships, explores the applications to poor clients and to those from different cultures, provides bartering vignettes, reviews the ethics codes on bartering, outlines the objections to bartering and offers clinical and ethical guidelines for employing, specifically, bartering and, more generally, boundary crossing and dual relationships.
Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
Summarize the complexities and potential risks and benefits involved in bartering arrangements.
List the different types of bartering arrangements.
Define and explain boundary crossings, boundary violations and dual relationships in psychotherapy.
Utilize guidelines for handling bartering, dual relationships and boundaries in therapy.
Explain the relationships between bartering, boundary crossings and dual relationships.
Outline what the different codes of ethics state in regard to bartering.
Summarize updates of the ethics codes and California law on bartering and offer guidelines for ethical decision making about bartering in therapy.
Utilize tools to make clinical and ethical decisions with regard to bartering, boundary crossings and dual relationships.
Course Syllabus:
Evolution of Bartering
Opposition to Bartering
Bartering, Boundary Crossing and Dual Relationships.
Types of Bartering: Goods, Services, Part of a Pro Bono or Low Fee, Others
Arranging Bartering: Direct Communication, Trade Associations, Online Bartering
Bartering and the Codes of Ethics
Case Studies
Beyond Risk Management
References
Guidelines for Bartering in Psychotherapy
California Regulations on Bartering in Psychotherapy
Boundaries and Dual Relationships in Psychotherapy:
Purpose and Definition
Dual Relationships - Key Points
Boundaries - Key Points
Dual Relationships - Guidelines
References to Online Articles and to Online Ethics Codes
Arguments Against Dual Relationships and their Rebuttals
