3 CEUs: Ethics and Risk Management Challenges in Social Work—Protecting Clients and Ourselves

Speakers: Robert Landau, JD and Frederic Reamer, Ph.D.

Virtual on Zoom |  February 17, 2023 (12 - 3:00pm EST)

Social workers who dedicate their professional lives to helping vulnerable people sometimes face difficult ethical challenges that can expose them to legal risk. In this webinar, attorney Robert Landau and social work ethicist Frederic Reamer will blend their unique perspectives to highlight potential risks and challenges in social work and present practical strategies to help prevent malpractice claims and licensing board complaints. The presenters will include extensive case examples and discuss relevant federal and state laws.

Learning objectives: 

• Identify ethics challenges and liability risks in social work.
• Apply social work ethics standards.
• Design and implement ethics-informed risk management protocols.

Attorney Robert Landau, JD: attorney with extensive experience representing social workers in MA and RI

Professor Frederic Reamer, Ph.D.: professor, School of Social Work, Rhode Island College; author of many publications on social work ethics, chair of national task force that wrote NASW Code of Ethics

Member $30 / Non-members $65

Webinar details (Zoom link and course evaluation form) will be shared a day before the webinar.

This program will be hosted by the NASW-RI Chapter (CEUs approved by NASW-MA)