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Workshops, Seminars, & Lectures for Psychotherapists
To arrange for a workshop, seminar or lecture in YOUR AREA, click here.
The following topics can be presented in a workshop, seminar, or lecture format. Contact Dr. Zur for further details. To review Dr. Zur's C.V., click here.
Content and length of the presentation can be adjusted to the needs of each inviting organization. Dr. Zur is an APA, CA-BBS, ASWB, NBCC, NAADAC, BRN-CA, etc., Approved Sponsor and can provide the CE Credits for these presentations.
List Of Presentations:
Digital Ethics And Social Media: Ethical Complexities and Clinical Challenges, & Practice Opportunities
- The course can be adjusted for different states' requirements.
- This course will also qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This course fulfills the California Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP and for MFTs and Social Workers by BBS.
The presentation can cover the following topics:
- What is Digital Ethics
- Clinical and ethical issues in psychotherapy & social media
- Psychotherapy, online social networking, and ethics
- How the internet blurs professional boundaries
- Therapists Googling clients
- Clients Googling therapists - therapists' internet transparency
- How to deal with negative posting by discontent clients
- Managing Facebook as a mental health professional
- How to respond to 'friend request' from clients?
- LinkedIn for mental health professionals
- Psychotherapy, online social networking, and ethics
- To tweet or not to tweet?
- E-mail communication between therapists and clients: ethical and clinical considerations
- Record-Keeping of phone messages, email, and texts
- HIPAA & basic computer and laptop security
- Relevant professional codes of ethics
- Emerging standard of care regarding use of digital technologies
- Ethical and clinical guidelines
- Resources
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Ethics With Soul
- The course can be adjusted for different states' requirements.
- This course will also qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This course fulfills the California Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP and for MFTs and Social Workers by BBS.
The presentation can cover the following topics:
- Making sound ethical decisions based on integrity, critical thinking, clinical judgment, and knowledge of the law and ethics codes.
- Update on the ethics codes and examining ethical decision-making.
- Managing boundary issues ethically and competently. Discussion of issues, such as non-sexual touch, gifts, bartering, home visit, and more.
- How to deal with and use dual relationships in psychotherapy.
- Keeping sound clinical records, dealing with high-risk clients, and developing a treatment plan.
- Attending to issues of confidentiality, reporting laws and duty to warn.
- Navigating the concerns of termination, treating minors, and managed care.
- Responding to subpoenas, boards, and ethics committees' investigations.
- Comprehending the issues concerning computers, emails, e-therapy, tele-health, computerized billing and faxes.
- Becoming informed of California laws pertaining to psychotherapy and the Codes of Ethics.
- Moving beyond risk management, fear of boards and attorneys in order to be able to provide the highest level of care.
Presentation may include movie clips on therapeutic ethics from movies, such as What About Bob, Prime, Prince of Tides, Good Will Hunting, Ordinary People, and more.
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Boundaries And Dual Relationships In Therapy
- The course can be adjusted for different states' requirements.
- This course will also qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This course fulfills the California Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP and for MFTs and Social Workers by BBS.
The course covers the following topics:
- Making sound ethical decisions in regard to non-sexual, non-exploitative boundary crossings, and dual relationships in psychotherapy.
- Defining and identifying dual relationships (DR), boundary crossings, and boundary violations.
- Dealing with issues of touch, gifts, bartering, home visits, and many other potentially helpful boundary crossings.
- Dealing with unavoidable dual relationships in small communities, such as rural, church, disabled, gay and lesbian, or ethnic minority communities.
- Basing your interventions on clinical rationale and knowledge of the law and ethics, rather than on fear of attorneys and boards.
- Assessing when it is clinically advisable to enter into DR with a client.
- Assisting clients to understand informed consent in regard to DR.
- Avoiding harm and exploitation of clients in the course of therapy.
- Keeping sound clinical records concerning DR and boundary crossing.
- Integrating DR into your treatment planning and working with people in your community.
- Identifying sections in California law and guidelines and the Codes of Ethics that are relevant to dual relationships and boundary crossings.
Presentation may include movie clips on therapeutic boundaries from movies, such as Good Will Hunting, Analyze This, What About Bob, Prince of Tides, Ordinary People, Deconstructing Harry, Antwone Fisher, and more.
For Dr. Zur's guidelines, articles and book on dual relationships, click here.
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Psychology Of Technology, Internet Addiction, Online Gaming Addiction & Cyber-Wellness
Understanding, Assessment, Intervention & Creating Healthy Balance
- Length and level can be adjusted as necessary.
- Available for interview for TV, radio, newspapers, journals or magazines. Call 707-922-6422 or email info@zurinstitute.com
- For sample Syllabus, click here.
- This presentation, keynotes, workshop, full course, interview can be geared towards parents, educators, clinicians, families, administrators, or policy makers.
The presentation covers the following topics:
- Psychology of technology: Positive and negative impacts of technology on everyday life.
- Modern technology, time, and stress.
- Importance and significance of the Internet and Web: Advancements and positive & negative aspects.
- How different generations use technology and multitasking.
- Internet Addiction and Online Gaming Addiction: Scope, causes, assessment and interventions.
- Technology and Internet permanence: Ways to create positive balance and Cyber-Wellness.
- On Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives: How to deal with the digital divide that often results in intense and destructive conflict between parents & children, teachers & students, and the older & younger generations.
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Enjoy A Fee-For-Service Private Practice Outside Managed Care
The course covers the following topics:
- Developing and sustaining a 100% fee-for-service private practice.
- Marketing yourself with integrity and joy.
- Developing marketing plans.
- Understanding the complexities and hazards of managed care.
- Educating your present and prospective clients about the benefits of private pay therapy.
- Using the basic clinical forms (can be included in the course).
- Producing treatment plans and keeping excellent records.
- Preventing burnout.
- Implementing the principles of effective therapy.
- Broadening your approach beyond DSM and pathology, and working with people, intermittently, throughout their lives.
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Psychotherapy With Clients With HIV/AIDS: Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Complexities
- The course can be adjusted for different states' requirements and agencies' needs.
- This course may qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This course fulfills the California Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP and for MFTs and Social Workers by BBS. It also fulfills the legal and ethical requirement of other states.
The presentation can cover the following topics:
- Introduction to ethics.
- Clinical, ethical, and legal complexities of working with clients with HIV/AIDS.
- Confidentiality, privacy, and reporting with clients with HIV/AIDS.
- Working with non-compliant clients with HIV/AIDS.
- Boundaries in therapy: Dual relationships, self-disclosure, leaving the office, etc.
- HIPAA: Overview and application to clients with HIV/AIDS.
- The standard of care: What it is and what it is not.
- Framework for ethical decision-making.
- Critical thinking and moral reasoning in clinical work with clients with HIV/AIDS.
- Ways to support clinicians in their work with clients with HIV/AIDS.
- Avoiding therapists' burnout.
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Supervision
- This course fulfills the California and other states' Supervision requirement for Psychologists by BOP and for MFTs by BBS.
- Depending on the length of the course, it also fulfills the Supervision requirement for LCSWs by BBS.
The course covers the following topics:
- What is supervision?
- How supervision is different from psychotherapy.
- Theories and types of supervision.
- Supervision Models: Psychotherapy-based: Psychodynamic, Client Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, & Systems.
- Non-Psychotherapy-based: Developmental & Role Perspective.
- California requirements for supervision.
- Supervision ethics & ethical decision-making.
- Theoretical Orientation, Interaction and Learning Styles.
- Assessment of the Trainee.
- Dual nature of supervision.
- Impacts of Culture and Diversity on the Supervisory Relationship and Process.
- California laws and regulations on supervision.
- Boundaries in supervision.
- Avoiding risk and increasing effectiveness in supervision.
- Supervisee: Attachment Style, Self-presentation and Self-disclosure, Interaction and Learning Styles, Theoretical Orientation.
Presentation may include movie clips on mentoring from movies, such as Star Wars, Mask of Zorro, The Guardian, Bullet Proof Monk, The Office and the Gentleman, Prime, and more.
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HIPAA-Friendly & Ethics With Soul
- This course may qualify you for a discount on your insurance premium. Check with your provider.
- This presentation usually or can include Dr. Zur's best-selling HIPAA Compliance Kit. To review the Kit's content, click here.
- This course fulfills the California Ethics and Law requirement for Psychologists by BOP and for MFTs and Social Workers by BBS.
The course does the following:
- Teaches you what HIPAA regulations are.
- Provides you with simple steps to becoming compliant.
- Gives you basic ready-to-use forms and checklists (dependant on the state).
- Explains the security guidelines for medical records.
- Outlines the new record-keeping requirements.
- Identifies application of HIPAA to CA Law and Codes of Ethics.
- Explains the complexities of electronic billing and identifies various low and high tech resources for achieving billing compliance with HIPAA.
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Intimate Partner Violence
- This presentation can fulfill the California Spousal and Partner Abuse one-time requirement for California Psychologists by BOP and MFTs and LCSWs by BBS.
- Presentation-lecture for psychologists can be as little as 2 hours for a two CE credit course as BOP does not mandate a set number of CE credits for this requirement, only specific content areas, which are covered in this course.
- Presentation for MFTs and LCSWs must be at least 7 hours to fulfill the BBS requirement.
The course covers the following topics:
- Making spousal and partner abuse assessments.
- Detecting and identifying domestic violence.
- Carrying out domestic violence interventions.
- Identifying community and other resources.
- Psychology of victims.
- Women as abusers.
- Comprehending the complex system involved in domestic violence.
- Understanding cultural, same gender and other factors in domestic violence.
- Identifying the relevant CA laws and Ethics codes for domestic violence.
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The Art of Consulting: Beyond DSM and Outside Managed Care
The course covers the following topics:
- Shifting from the medical-pathological model to a health-developmental model.
- Liberating yourself from managed care and insurance companies.
- Working with people throughout their lives on an intermittent, long-term basis.
- Helping people deal with normal everyday issues such as: health, vocation, love, grief, death, and spirituality.
- Shifting from a model of pathology to one of prevention, healing, and strength.
- Using the principles of "positive psychology" and incorporating the concept of resilience into your practice.
- Helping people move from a victim-helpless-irresponsible mode to a place of integrity and responsibility.
- Marketing yourself as a consultant, guide, mentor, or coach on life's issues.
- Developing and sustaining a 100% fee-for-service private practice.
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Lectures And Additional Topics (Sample Topics)
To arrange for Dr. Zur to lecture in YOUR AREA, click here.
The Culture of Victims:
The psychology of victims, how psychotherapists contribute to the problem and re-thinking PTSD. (For an article on the topic, click here.
Speed.com: Conducting therapy in the era of speed:
Finding meaning in the culture of speed; different ways of experiencing time and how to help clients navigate the fast pace of modern life. (For an article on the topic, click here.)
Preventing psychotherapists' burnout:
Looking at the reasons therapists burn out and identifying ways to prevent it.
Psychotherapists and their families:
Therapists as parents and spouses.
Bartering, gifts, touch and out-of-office experiences (leaving the office):
Looking at different ways that ethical and legal boundary crossing can enhance therapeutic outcome. (For an article on the topic, click here.)
The Soul of Israel
Peace and war in the Middle East.
Effective Consultation and Psychotherapy:
How to conduct or benefit from psychotherapy.
In Praise of Dual Relationships:
How non-sexual dual relationships between therapists and clients can strengthen individuals and communities.
The Ethics of Healing:
On the importance of integrity, flexibility, and courage rather than fear and obedience in the art of healing.
A Nation of Victims:
Exploring America's obsession with victimhood, and ways to heal victims.
Illness as a Metaphor:
How to understand illness and explore the personal message of dis-ease.
Fighting and Loving:
Teaching couples how to fight better so they can love better.
Psychotherapists and Their Families:
How to enhance therapists' advantages and minimize the hazards.
To arrange for Dr. Zur to lecture in YOUR AREA, click here.
Remember, the content and length of the presentation may be adjusted to suit the needs of each inviting organization. Dr. Zur is an APA, CA-BBS Approved Sponsor and can provide the CE Credits for these presentations.
To review Dr. Zur's C.V., click here.
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