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Maintaining Professional Boundaries

This course helps you to improve awareness and responsibility around establishing and maintaining professional boundaries. The course is helpful if you have concerns about boundary keeping, or have disciplinary processes. It is for situation where there are concerns, allegations or findings in relation to:

Inappropriate emotional or sexualised relationships with colleagues
Sexualised relationships with patients
Inappropriate use of touch

Sexual harassment
Sexualised or inappropriate language

Who Is The Course For?

The course is for people in roles working with people, including medicine, nursing, social work, ministry, education, therapy, criminal justice, corporate and political settings.

When The Course Is Helpful

The course is for professionals who have a need to look at professional boundaries. It may be helpful when there are concerns about inappropriate or sexualised behaviours, and when there are disciplinary or conduct hearings or other professional processes.

It is helpful where there are concerns, allegations or findings – it is important to understand that the course has been helpful to people who face allegations, including where allegations are contested.

Learning Methods Include

Pre-course reading
Conversations with the trainer
Evidence from research
Film and TV Clips
Group discussion
Working in pairs

Acted Scenarios
Presentations
Playing The Professionalism Game^®
Playing Lumination^®
Creating a Personal Development Plan

Content Includes

Attitudes towards power and authority
Belief and its functions
Blind spots
Cognitive distortions
Counter-dependent ways of being
Difference between personal and professional boundaries
Distinction between context and cause
Dynamics of risk
Dynamics of interpersonal attraction and intimacy
Dual relationships

Impact and consequences
Uses and misuses of physical touch
New ways of relating and being
New ways of communicating
Notion of total responsibility
Power differentials.
Practitioner self-disclosure
Relationship with vulnerability
Three stages of moving on

Goals & Intended Outcomes

To increase responsibility and awareness of professional boundaries
To Learn techniques for establishing and maintaining boundaries
To increase awareness of vulnerabilities and risk factors
To put in place a personal 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

Booking Process & Fee

There are five places on each course.

Each participant is required to have a telephone call with the course leader so that the context, substance of the issue and personal perspective is explored. This call will include a check to ensure that the most appropriate course is being booked.

The price for the course is £1,250 +VAT (£1,500) and a place is secured when payment is made.

All bookings are made in agreement with our [terms and conditions]. Payment is by bank transfer and places can be held for 24 hours to enable payments to be made.

Payment plans are available on request.

What Our Clients Say...

Brought out thoughts that would never have surfaced otherwise – thank you.

Maintaining Professional Boundaries Course

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