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Queerly Defined Boundaries: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas as Queer Counselors

Jack Rosile
Joe Charette, PhD, LPC, NCC
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the nature and scope of the unique ethical dilemmas that queer counselors face across diverse communities.

  • Identify how intersectionality and small community size add further complexity to unavoidable ethical dilemmas for queer counselors.

  • Explain the current state of research on ethical issues for queer counselors and intersectional subgroups.

  • Demonstrate the ability to navigate ethical dilemmas as a queer counselor

Educational Goal

Attendees will understand the complex and unique challenges encountered by queer counselors when navigating ethical issues and learn how to apply a queer lens to ethical decision making.

Description

Established approaches to teaching counseling ethics leave queer counselors without the proper tools to navigate uniquely queer ethical dilemmas. Queer counselors, particularly those also serving the queer community, encounter ethical dilemmas that arise due to community sizes and cultural differences. This webinar seeks to address these gaps in training through applying a queer lens to counseling ethics. Presenters will discuss ethical challenges they have encountered and the current lack of research about these topics.

Target Audience

  • Counselor

Presenters

Jack Rosile
Jack Rosile is a graduate student working towards a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Northwestern. He has an interest in supporting the unique needs of queer and transgender individuals, particularly youth, and is pursuing a specialization in counseling children and adolescents. Prior to changing his career direction, he worked in the software engineering industry in a variety of individual engineering and leadership roles. Jack holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joe Charette, PhD, LPC, NCC
Dr. Joe Charette is the Vice President of Programs and Operations at Bethany Children’s Home, a foster care agency serving survivors of human trafficking. He maintains a private practice working with QTGE (Queer, Trans, & Gender Expansive) clients, sex workers, poly and CNM (Consensual Non-Monogamy) relationships, and survivors of trauma. He is the President-Elect of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association (PCA), Secretary of SAIGE, and the Secretary NARACES (North Atlantic Region Association for Counselor Education and Supervision).

Dr. Joe’s research focuses on the lived experiences of QTGE people, including looking at queer identity development and management across the lifespan as well as sexual health as a fundamental component of mental health. Additionally, Dr. Joe’s research focuses on self-concealment, self-disclosure, uncertainty, and emotional labor among QTGE counselors, supervisors, and counselor educators. In education, Dr. Joe is interested in the integration of materials from related and other disciplines into counseling curriculum and the creation of justice through education. Finally, Dr. Joe’s supervisory interests are focused on exploring the role of shared identity among supervisors/supervisees and mentors/mentees as well as relational ethics in supervision.