Ethics and Boundaries: Survival-Based Connection and Dual Relationships in Human Services
January 15th, 2027 - 9am - 1 pm CST
Presented by Sheng Lee Yang, MSW, LCSW, PMH C
4 Ethincs & Boundaries CEHs
This ethics training examines how prolonged societal strain and ongoing system disruption have reshaped professional boundaries, relationships, and ethical decision-making among practitioners in helping professions. Drawing on core professional values and contemporary practice realities, the training explores how collective stress, isolation, and invisible emotional labor have contributed to trauma bonding, blurred boundaries, and complex dual relationships within professional environments.
Rather than framing these challenges as individual ethical missteps, this session situates them within broader relational, organizational, and sustainability contexts. Participants will reflect on how survival-based connection, shared professional stress, and increased emotional demands affect judgment, supervision, teamwork, and client relationships. The training emphasizes values-based ethical reasoning, human sustainability, and the role of healthy boundaries in maintaining trust, professionalism, and ethical integrity in times of sustained strain.
This training is appropriate for practitioners across practice settings, including clinical, school-based, community, and supervisory roles.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1.Identify how prolonged collective stress, isolation, and increased emotional demands contribute to trauma bonding, blurred boundaries, and dual relationships in professional practice.
2.Apply core professional values and ethical principles to analyze boundary and dual-relationship dilemmas within high-stress and resource-strained practice contexts.
3.Recognize the role of invisible emotional and moral labor as an ethical risk factor impacting judgment, sustainability, and professional boundaries.
4.Utilize a values-based ethical decision-making framework to support healthy connection, appropriate boundaries, and ethical accountability in practice and supervision.
COST:
Members - $85
Student & Retired Members - $65
Non-Members - $115
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