Mitigating Bias in the Treatment of Clients with Chronic Pain

Description

Objective 1: Learn about ethical considerations when treating clients with chronic pain, including how implicit and explicit bias and self-disclosure can affect the client, the therapeutic relationship, and treatment goal outcomes.
Objective 2: Begin practicing the application of journaling techniques centered on exploring bias to promote ethical treatment when working with clients experiencing chronic pain

Course Description:
The prevalence of chronic pain is rising, and, as therapists, the likelihood of treating clients with persistent or intractable pain is high. As clinicians, whether or not we have specialized training in chronic pain, we all have the potential to unintentionally bring our biases into the therapy room in an effort to provide quality care for our clients. In this course, we discuss ethical issues related to the treatment of clients experiencing chronic pain, including how our biases, self-disclosure, and countertransference might influence the therapeutic relationship. Participants will be guided through a brief experiential journaling exercise aimed at exploring some of these ethical issues and learn additional journaling techniques to use for further exploration moving forward

Elisa Friedlander, LMFT, LPCC, is a psychotherapist, Certified Journal Therapist, and journaling coach and consultant. She facilitates journaling, poetry, and therapeutic writing workshops, including her groundbreaking six-week curriculum “Pain Meets Pen: Quieting Chronic Pain and Illness with Therapeutic Writing™,” worldwide. She is a faculty member at the Therapeutic Writing Institute and an international conference presenter, bringing her extensive clinical expertise and lived experience to teach psychotherapists how to reduce bias and work more ethically and effectively with clients experiencing chronic pain and illness. She is the founder of Ink To Insight, LLC (www.inktoinsight.com). Please review the Cancellation & Refund Policy: https://events.ce-cafe.com/cancellation-refund-policy/