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Cultural Challenges in Military Clinical Settings: Clinical, Ethical, Legal, and Risk Management Considerations.

Susan S. Zoline, Ph.D.
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This workshop examines the clinical, ethical, legal, and risk management challenges that arise when current events, political issues, misinformation, or prejudiced views enter military clinical settings. Participants will review considerations related to boundaries, self-disclosure, countertransference, competing responsibilities, multicultural competence, and avoidance of harm. Case vignettes will illustrate practical strategies for balancing cultural humility, the therapeutic relationship, military policy, safety, and advocacy.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to enhance participants’ ability to navigate ethically complex discussions involving current events, misinformation, and prejudiced views in military clinical settings. Participants will develop greater sophistication in balancing cultural humility, therapeutic boundaries, military policy, safety, advocacy, and preservation of the therapeutic relationship.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Apply 3 key elements of a systematic process of ethical decision-making when clients raise “hot topics,” prejudiced or misinformed statements in clinical settings.

  • Formulate 3 key components of best practice responses with a focus on preserving the relationship, upholding one’s duties, and assessing a client’s receptivity to feedback.

  • Appraise 3 effective strategies relevant to maintaining clear boundaries and promoting well- being/avoidance of harm when culturally charged topics arise in the clinical space

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Susan S. Zoline, Ph.D.
Susan S. Zoline, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who has been involved in practicing, teaching, and consulting in the Chicago area for over forty five years. Dr. Zoline is a Professor of Psychology in the Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program at Adler University where she has taught doctoral students for seven years. She was previously a Professor of Psychology and University Fellow at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology (ISPP) at Argosy University, Chicago, where she taught clinical masters and doctoral Psychology students for over thirty years. Dr. Zoline’s areas of professional expertise include professional ethics, suicide, violence and abuse assessment and intervention, clinical supervision and risk management. Dr. Zoline is a longstanding member of the Illinois Psychological Association Ethics Committee, which she has co-chaired since 2010. Dr. Zoline has worked clinically in a broad variety of settings and regularly consults and provides workshops to mental health and other professionals on topics related to professional ethics.

Financially Sponsored By

  • APA Division 19: Society for Military Psychology