Course

26410 - Resolving and Avoiding Ethical Dilemmas - September 18 at 1 pm Central

3 credits

$69 Enroll

Full course description

Title: Resolving and Avoiding Ethical Dilemmas

Presented By: Peggy Reed-Lohmeyer, MSW, LCSW

Program #: 26410

Date(s): Thursday, September 18, 2025

Time: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Central Time

Format: Live Interactive Webinar, Synchronous Distance Learning

Location: Online

CE Credit Awarded: 3 [Ethics] CE Credits

Total Minutes of Educational Instruction: 180 Minutes

Fee: $69; fee collected at registration includes attendance for the training and CE certificate issuance

 

Agenda:

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (90 minutes)

  • Review of the purpose and importance of professional ethics
  • Identification by attendees of ethical dilemmas they most often face
  • Review of ethical issues faced by social workers

 

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM – BREAK

 

2:45 PM– 4:15 PM (90 minutes)

  • Review the ETHIC Model of Decision Making
  • Apply ETHIC Model of Decision Making, provided with scenarios and discussions
  • Review good practice strategies to lessen risk of ethical concerns arising

 

Speaker Bio: Peggy Reed-Lohmeyer is an LCSW in the state of Missouri. She earned her BSW from Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri & her MSW from University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked in a variety of fields, including youth residential, outpatient mental health, home health & hospice, corrections, as well as providing consultations at a medical hospital. The bulk of her clinical work was at Fulton State Hospital. After 25 years of service, she retired from full-time state employment, as FSH’s Risk Manager. She continued to work part-time for the hospital for 4 years, overseeing Peer Support Services. She has provided clinical supervision to numerous social workers over the years and continues to do so. She has taught college classes for the past 13 years, working at four area colleges. She has volunteered her social work services in the community over the years, including leading critical incident debriefings, grief support groups, suicide prevention education, and being the mental health professional on call at various events. She is Secretary of the Missouri Chapter of NASW & served as the Ethics Committee Chair.

 

Learning Objectives:

1.  Identify common ethical issues faced by social workers

2.  Identify strategies to effectively deal with common ethical issues

3.  Identify strategies to lessen ethical concerns arising in the future

 

Description: Everyone faces ethical dilemmas throughout their career. Being able to appropriately navigate these potential land minds is critical to the successful practice of social work. This training will cover ethical issues commonly faced by social workers during their career and offers strategies to effectively deal with them, as well as, to lessen the changes of such concerns arising in the future.

 

Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, and/or other Mental Health Professionals

 

Accreditations:

Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH)

The University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri Institute of Mental Health will be responsible for this program and will maintain a record of your continuing education credits earned.

MIMH awards 3 clock hour(s) or 3.6 contact hour(s) (.36 CEUs) for this program, including 3 clock hour(s) towards ethics, 0 clock hour(s) towards suicide prevention, and 0 clock hour(s) towards cultural competency.

 

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

MIMH is an NBCC - Approved Continuing Education Provider, No. 6339 (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC - approved clock hours for events (or programs) that meet NBCC requirements. Sessions (or programs) for which NBCC – approved clock hours will be awarded are identified in the program bulletin (or web site). The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects for the program.

3 clock hour(s) are offered to the participant for this program.

 

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) ACE

University of Missouri - St. Louis, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Professional Training Center, provider number: 1880, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: September 5, 2025 – September 5, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive [3] [Ethics] continuing education credits.

 

NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, Approved Education Provider

This course has been approved by the University of Missouri - St. Louis, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Professional Training Center, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for [3] CE(s). NAADAC Provider #312308, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Professional Training Center is responsible for all aspects of its programing.

 

Accommodations Policy: Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to contact MIMH, Professional Training Center in writing at conferences@mimh.edu , as early as possible to request reasonable accommodations, such as ASL interpreters, alternate format materials, and map of accessible features.

 

Grievance Policy for UMSL | MIMH, Professional Training Center:

Complaints about Course Content, Speakers, Facilities, Nonreceipt of Certificates, Miscellaneous:

UMSL | MIMH, Professional Training Center is committed to providing quality professional continuing education trainings. If you experience dissatisfaction with the quality of services provided, the course content, speakers, facilities used, certificates or nonreceipt of certificates, etc., please email conferences@mimh.edu to notify UMSL | MIMH, Professional Training Center of your grievance. UMSL | MIMH, Professional Training Center CE Director, Kelly Gregory (kelly.gregory@mimh.edu ) and Social Work Consultant, Megan Galmiche (megan.galmiche@mimh.edu ) will review the grievance and will provide a response within 10 business days of communication. All grievances and actions taken to resolve the grievance will be documented, kept confidential, and only used to improve future courses.

 

Refund and/or Cancellation Requests:

If you are unable to attend and/or exhibit, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible at conferences@mimh.edu . Cancellations received in writing 5 business days prior for online programs, and 30 business days prior for in-person programs prior to the date of the program will be refunded, less a processing fee. For registrants, you may send a substitute, but we ask that you notify us in writing of this change at conferences@mimh.edu . If you do not attend or send a substitute, you or your employer will be responsible for the registration fee and/or exhibit fee in full.

 

Course Completion Requirements:

  1. Attend course
  2. Submit the online course evaluation
  3. Your CE Certificate will be available in your Canvas account upon submission of the course evaluation

 

Deadline to Register: Registrations may be taken up until one hour before the start of the program to allow for time to receive instructions and login.

 

System Requirements:

  • An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless (4G/LTE or 5G)
  • Speakers and a microphone – built-in, USB plug-in, or wireless Bluetooth. Participants’ audio and video functionality will initially be off during the webinar. Participants may choose to turn on their own video and/or audio, but are not required to. Participants may type questions in the Q&A or Chat functions in Zoom. The host or speaker will read each question/comment and respond to them during the training.
  • A webcam is not required for participants. Participants may choose to turn on their own video and/or audio, but are not required to. The speaker and the host will have their webcam and audio functionality turned on throughout the webinar, so you may see the speaker, host, and slides.

 

Certificate of Credit:

  1. Certificate of credit will be available in your Canvas account after the course evaluation has been submitted
  2. Save your certificate of credit and any pertinent course information (flyer, brochure, program, schedule, agenda, etc.) for your records
  3. UMSL | MIMH, Professional Training Center will maintain a record of your attendance and certificate of credit for seven years after program start date

 

Organization Responsible for Course:

UMSL | Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Professional Training Center

RCEW Building

8225 Florissant Rd.

St. Louis, MO 63121-2020

Website: www.mimhtraining.com 

Contact Information: conferences@mimh.edu | 314-516-8419