Law and Ethics 4: Phantom Issues in Risk Management

Course Description

This course on professional ethics considers the influence of unseen dimensions. Psychotherapists are weise to seek self-knowledge about any personal issues that could lead to clinical blind spots.

Effective risk management requires mature judgment and attention to detail. Laws, social expectations, standards of care, personal values, and unconscious elements all enter into applied ethics.

Phantom issues can be unmanaged stress, unacknowledged counter-transference, or life-stage transition struggles.

The course format is storytelling with discussion. We will use The Phantom of the Opera to illustrate how personal complexes can influence ethical choices. The principle texts will be the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical theater version and later film adaptation.

Throughout the day, we will reflect on philosophical issues underlying ethical behavior. It is open to anyone interested in honoring their best qualities and values.

This course meets mandated Law & Ethics requirements for Psychology, LMFT, LPCC and LCSW license renewal. It will also be of interest to members of other helping professions, especially educators, clergy, nurses, and physicians.

Learning Objectives

Demonstrate effective models of applied ethics
Apply systems to enhance professional reliability
Explain psychological foundations of integrity
Describe how reflective practices support reliability
Identify the expectations and ideals of the helping role
Explain use of dream analysis methods to draw insight from stories

Who Will Benefit?

This seminar is designed to advance the skills of practicing doctoral-level psychologists. Presentations cover updates on clinical expertise. The day is also useful to other mental health practitioners and to certain helping professions, such as physicians, clergy, and educators with mental health counseling responsibilities.

This seminar is taught at the introductory level and requires no advance preparation. However, participants are provided with a recommended reading list as part of their class materials.

The material is presented at an introductory level, requiring no background in mythic studies, narrative theory, or Jungian psychology.

CE Credit information

The material is presented at an introductory level, requiring no background in mythic studies, narrative theory, or Jungian psychology.

The following CE credits are available:

Psychology, LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, Ed Psych, NBCC : 6 CE hours
Nursing : 7 hours

Most teachers must get credits approved by their school administration. Center courses meet the requirements in most states. Contact us if you need more information about receiving credit in your state.

How to Register

Select a seminar location from the Current Seminar Dates and Formats
Register online or call the Center

Instructors

Jonathan Young, PhD is a psychologist (PSY10231) with an international online practice. He teaches at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. His books and articles focus on personal mythology. Dr.Young assisted mythologist Joseph Campbell at seminars and was founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. He is currently featured in several documentary series on the History Channel.

Dr. Young is the minister of the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Goleta, a suburb of Santa Barbara. Visitors are welcome Sundays at 10am in-person and on Zoom: LiveOakGoleta.org

Anne Bach, MS, MFT 38891 is a specialist in uses of writing in psychotherapy. She gives presentations on creativity as inner work at major conferences, and lectures widely on psychological dimensions of expressive writing. She also appears in memoir drama performances for various theater groups, including the Marsh Stage in Berkeley. Her clinical background includes poetry therapy with seriously mentally ill patients.

Day Schedule

Checking-in begins at 9:30 a.m. - Seminar 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

10:00 Foundations of Ethical Practice

11:15 - Break (approximate time)

11:30 - Integrity in Depth

12:30 - Lunch Break

- Please return on time

1:30 - Reflections and Ethics Choices

2:30 - Break (approximate time)

2:40 - Staying Steadily Conscientious

3:50 - Break (approximate time)

4:00 - Being Both Imagination and Methodological

5:00 - Course concludes: Sign out by completing the evaluation

Selections from the Reading List

Becker Christina (2004) The Heart of the Matter: Individuation as an Ethical Process. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications

Beebe, John (1992) Integrity in Depth. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press

Campbell, Joseph (2013) Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell(Safron Elsabeth Rossi, Editor), Novato, CA: New World Library

Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf (2000) Power in the Helping Professions. Putnam, CT: Spring Publications

Hollis, James (2020) Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times. Louisville CO: Sounds True

Hollis, James (2008) Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves New York: Avery

Hollis, James (2020) Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places. Toronto: Inner City Books

Le Grice, Keiron (2013) The Rebird of the Hero: Mythology as a Guide to Spiritual Transformation. London: Muswell Hill Press

Young, Jonathan (1996) Saga - Best New Writings on Mythology Vol. 1. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press

Young, Jonathan (2000) Saga - Best New Writings on Mythology Vol. 2. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press

Christine and the phantom