Mindful Ethics: An Acceptance-based Approach to Ethics for Mental Health Professionals (3 CEs)
Learn about how to use mindfulness and acceptance skills in your ethical practice while earning 3 Category II Ethics CEUs.
This is no ordinary ethics workshop! It doesn’t focus on risk and legalities, and it won't leave you stressed about your capacity to keep up with every detail of your ethics code. This workshop is about using mindfulness and acceptance skills to integrate your personal and professional ethics into your work - every day, moment to moment. It is about approaching ethics in a way that is personally and professionally meaningful.
Specifically, this training is designed to provide a mindful perspective to the ethical guidelines for mental health professionals. Dr. Martin will use the basic tenets of mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to explore how ethical dilemmas can be considered from a stance of mindful awareness, acceptance, and psychological flexibility. We will consider examples of challenging situations and discuss how processes such as experiential avoidance and inflexible thinking may contribute to negative outcomes. We also will discuss how approaching these situations from a mindful, accepting stance may increase the likelihood of actions that are consistent with ethical standards.
Finally, Dr. Martin will lead experiential exercises to encourage participants to connect with their values surrounding ethical work and their identities as ethical scientist-practitioners. Attendees will participate in large group didactic instruction and will have the opportunity to discuss ethical dilemmas in small groups.
Staci Martin, PhD (she/her) is a licensed psychologist who specializes in using mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in treating adolescents and adults with medical conditions at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. She is the Principal Investigator of two current ACT-based protocols. Dr. Martin is President Emeritus of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter (MAC) of ACBS Board, a Board Member-at-Large for the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science, and a peer-reviewed ACT trainer. She has been conducting trainings on mindfulness and ACT since 2014.