If you are facing an allegation around emotional boundaries in a professional setting this course is for you.
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25 Feb 2025 - 27 Feb 20253 days, 9:00 AM GMT - 5:30 PM GMT
IS THIS THE RIGHT COURSE?
If you’re not sure about which course is the right one for you we have provided a guide to help you here.
Description
The course is for where the issue of concern is about crossing emotional boundaries. Please read the list in the section 'When is the course helpful?' for the kinds of issues this covers. If in doubt please contact us for a discussion about the most suitable course for you.
It is helpful where there are concerns, allegations or findings – it is important to understand that our courses have been helpful to people who face allegations, including where allegations are contested.
Please note, if there is any allegation that concerns sexualised behaviour then the appropriate course is Maintaining Professional Boundaries.
When The Course Is Helpful
The course is for professionals who have a need to look at professional boundaries where there is any concern around emotional boundary issues, alleged or proven, including:
- Over familiarity / regarding a client like a family member or friend
- Socialising / personal contact
- Social media: personal contact
- Excessive self-disclosure
- Emotional over-involvement with patients
- Non-sexualised inappropriate interactions with patients.
Symptoms of emotional boundary problems often include blurring of normal professional boundaries, for example appointment times, money issues, where the work takes place, disclosure.
Emotional boundary concerns may arise in relation to clients or colleagues.
The course can be taken at any stage after a concern has been highlighted. If there is a formal investigation we recommend taking the course at an early stage, so that appropriate relevant plans can be put in place.
Goals & Intended Outcomes
- To increase responsibility and awareness of emotional boundaries
- To learn techniques for establishing and maintaining boundaries
- To increase awareness of vulnerabilities and risk factors
- To put in place a Personal Development & Restoration plan
- To improve understanding of personal history and antecedents to problems
- To increase understanding of the effects of boundary transgressions on others
- To consider needs for further professional assistance and personal development
Indicative Content
- Attitudes towards power and authority
- Belief and its functions
- Blind spots
- Cognitive distortions
- Commitment
- Consequences of over-involvement
- Distinction between context and cause
- Dynamics of risk
- Dynamics of interpersonal relationships
- Emotional boundary types
- Establishing safe boundaries
- Healthy emotional boundaries
- Insight
- Impact and consequences
- New ways of relating and being
- New ways of communicating
- Notion of responsibility
- Power differentials
- Relationship with vulnerability
- Risk factors for Emotional Boundary concerns
- Signs of unhealthy emotional boundaries
- Stages of moving on
Learning Methods
- Pre-course reading
- Conversations with the trainer
- Evidence from research
- Film and TV Clips
- Group discussion
- Working in pairs
- Acted Scenarios
- Presentations
- Playing The Professional Boundaries Game®
- Creating a Personal Development Plan
Who is the course for?
The course is for those in roles working with people, including medicine, nursing, social work, ministry, education, psychotherapy, counselling, criminal justice, corporate, legal and political settings.