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Live Webinar

Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics

Clinical Strategies to Prevent Burnout, Uphold Personal Values & Adhere to Ethical Guidelines

Speaker:
Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC150179
Brochure Code:
PWZ95786
Media Type:
Live Webinar

Dates


Description

We spend our days taking care of others, then wonder why we are burnt out, sore, can’t sleep, and feel so irritable ….

But here’s the catch: when we neglect our own well-being, it’s not just us who suffer. Ethical missteps, poor judgment, and even client care can be at risk.

We know the importance of self-care, but often lack the time and skills to rejuvenate ourselves. Yet it is essential to learn and master these vital skills. This course goes beyond self-care basics. You’ll gain practical tools to set firm, ethical boundaries, manage risk effectively, and protect both yourself and your practice.

So join ethics expert Adrianne Sturtevant LICSW, who’s given countless trainings across the country on everything you need to know about when to say yes and how to say no. Through enlightening discussion, engaging activities, and practical skill building, she’ll show you how boundaries and self-care are interrelated and give you the tools you need to be compliant with ethical guidelines that mandate healthy self-care.

You’ll walk away knowing how to:

  • Set and maintain boundaries with confidence
  • Apply ethical decision-making by understanding how personal values shape professional ethics
  • Navigate the latest ethics codes and guidelines on boundaries and self-care
  • Integrate boundary-setting into your treatment planning for improved client outcomes
  • Use proven techniques to prevent burnout and sustain long-term professional well-being

And so much more!

Leave this training feeling refreshed and reinvigorated, with a personalized ethical self-care plan you can rely on for years to come.

Register Now!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Ethics

THIS ACTIVITY QUALIFIES FOR 6.25 HOURS  OF General ETHICS INSTRUCTION. Not all boards allow ethics credit for on-line programs. If ethics is not specified within your licensing board’s approval statement below, please contact your board to determine the applicability and amount of ethics allowed.


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2029. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Ethics continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous Distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 380 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 



Speaker

Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW's Profile

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Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience across a diverse range of therapeutic settings. She earned her Master of Social Work from San Diego University, where she focused her thesis on predictive factors for college graduation among low-income youth. Currently, Adrianne operates an online private practice, delivering evidence-based therapy to adolescents and adults in multiple states. In addition, she consults with organizations seeking to enhance their telehealth services by developing infrastructure to support clinician recruitment and multi-state operations.

Adrianne’s extensive experience prior to her telehealth practice includes work in emergency foster care, wilderness therapy, and community-based settings, where she has developed and implemented clinical processes for remote teams, trained and supervised staff, and provided evidence-based healthcare. She attributes her career success to maintaining healthy boundaries that allow her to balance professional and personal commitments, including participating in endurance events such as Ironman-distance triathlons. With a robust clinical background and a passion for promoting mental health, Adrianne remains a valuable resource for her clients and a leader in the mental health community.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Adrianne Sturtevant maintains a private practice and has an employment with MDLive. Adrianne Sturtevant receives compensation as a presenter. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Adrianne Sturtevant has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Determine the importance of both personal and professional boundaries for self-care.
  2. Identify how the NASW, APA, AAMFT and ACA Code of Ethics applies to boundary setting and self-care in the outpatient clinical setting.
  3. Develop strategies that minimize burnout.
  4. Develop a self-care plan that supports healthy boundaries.
  5. Analyze predictive factors of burnout.
  6. Choose strategies to communicate personal and professional boundaries.

Outline

Boundaries: The What and the Why
  • Personal v. professional boundaries
  • Types of professional boundaries
    • Self-disclosure
    • Dual relationships
    • Telehealth
    • Documentation
    • Countertransference
  • Law vs code of ethics
  • How the latest codes and standards inform boundaries
  • Duty to report colleagues – importance of this ethical standard
  • Identify personal values and how they related to boundaries
  • Connections between personal values and professional ethics
  • What to do if your values don’t align with ethical standards
  • Protect your clients: Self-determination, values, and more
  • Protect yourself: Burnout, ethical and legal obligations, and more
Ethical Self-care and its Importance for the Modern Clinician
  • How investing in self-care is upholding our professional ethics
  • Compare areas from the code of ethics (NASW, APA, ACA, AAMFT)
  • Difference in professional self-care and personal self-care
  • Pillars of self-care: Emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual, professional, and relational
  • Build a self-care plan to support healthy boundaries
  • Teach boundaries to clients as a form of self-care
    • How and when to say no
    • Listen to client’s needs rather than imposing our own
    • Teach clients reframing of obligations as a choice
    • Identify client values to facilitate their building their own boundaries
  • Recognize and manage transference and countertransference
  • When to refer out a client due to transference issues
  • Self-care specifically for therapists
    • Eliminate unethical dual relationships
    • Prevent burnout
    • Have structure of healthy boundaries around work
    • Support colleagues in being ethical
    • Accept or reject employment based on your needs
    • Supervision and peer support
    • Continuing education
    • Moral disengagement as result of poor work environment
Prevent Burnout
  • Predictive & protective factors of burnout
  • How environment of workplace contributes
  • Strategies for preventing burnout
    • Personal strategies
    • Seeking support
    • Use stress inventory
    • Time management
  • Explore what boundaries are needed to prevent burnout
Integrate Boundary Teaching Into Treatment Planning
  • Limitations, risks, and scope of practice
  • Examples on how to phrase treatment goals
  • Recognize personal boundaries within the clinical relationship
  • Use values and boundaries work with clients
  • Stay objective when our values don’t match our client’s values
  • Relevant ethical codes and us working in our client’s best interests
  • Intervention strategies if a client’s views are harmful vs. when they are different from our own
  • Communication skills for holding clients to established boundaries
  • Framework for interactions with clients
    • Consent and other paperwork that starts conversation
    • Boundaries on how and when to communicate
    • Teach clients about emergency services
    • Recognize differences in client needs without compromising self or acting unfairly to others
    • Modes of communication and limitations of each

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Physicians

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