Professional Boundaries
Understand the purpose and function of boundaries in behavioral health practice and why they are essential to ethical care.
Crossings vs. Violations
Learn to clearly distinguish between boundary crossings and boundary violations in real-world clinical contexts.
Rural Resolutions
Explore practical strategies for resolving common boundary challenges that arise in rural and small-community practice.
About the course
Learning Objectives By the end of this presentation, learners will be able to: 1. Describe the nature and function of boundaries in the behavioral health professions 2. Articulate the difference between a boundary crossing and a boundary violation 3. List 3 potential resolutions to common boundary concerns that arise in rural practice
Meet Your Instructor
Cynthia M. A. Geppert, MD, PhD is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist, palliative care and addiction medicine physician, clinical ethicist, and theologian who spent 23 years in the Veterans Health Administration: retiring at the end of 2025 from the position of senior ethicist and legal liaison at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care .She is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. As adjunct professor of Bioethics at the Alden March Bioethics Center at Albany Medical College, she teaches courses in mental health and end-of-life ethics, law and policy and religious ethics and supervises and mentors graduate students. Dr. Geppert holds graduate degrees in religion, theology, health law, clinical ethics, bioethics, public health and the history of medicine and has performed or been involved in thousands of ethics consultations. Her more than 300 publications focus on end-of-life, religion and spirituality, medical and clinical ethics education, and psychiatric and addiction ethics.
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Join now to enhance ethical decision-making skills. Please note all trainings are recorded.
$60.00