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I have been working on my Social Media Policy  for my private practice. This will eventually be available as a download on my Forms page and I will also distribute it to current clients. Please note that this is currently a work in progress. There may be important things to add to this policy, but [...]

Clinical, Ethical, and Technical Issues Related to Social Networking and Psychotherapy with LGBT Communities I am offering a 3 hour CEU training in partnership with Gaylesta. This training is free for current Gaylesta members. It’s $10 per CEU for non Gaylesta members. Please note: CEU’s are available only to MFT’s and LCSW’s at this time, [...]

CrossCurrents: The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health, has released their Winter 2009/10 issue which is centered on “The Digital Couch.” This issue focuses on the Internet and mental health. I was interviewed for “MySpace is your space: Internet blurs professional boundaries,” and they have published my recommendations to clinicians who wish to avoid boundary [...]

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits The past two days, a subsection of the Internet was ablaze with commentary related to the Facebook privacy changes that I blogged about yesterday. Some users didn’t mind the changes. Some didn’t realize they had lost [...]

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Recently, when teaching a training for clinicians working in college mental health, I was discussing some of the multiple role conflicts that can come up when clinicians accept friend requests from clients. One clinician asked me [...]