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Ethical Use of Social MediaPresented by Kathy G. Slaughter, LCSW
Soaring Heart Counselingwww.soaringheartcounseling.com
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The Wild West
Ethics: Different than Law, Different than Policy
Activity Time!Brainstorm what kind of ethical dilemmas you might encounter online or offline due to
social media, for example:
• You are in recovery and tweeting about your own 12-step meeting. A new client learns about it through twitter and attends your meeting.
• You follow a personal blog about depression regularly. You realize a new client is the writer of that blog while reading the blog at home. The client discloses something in her blog that is clinically relevant.
• You are part of an online community for a minority subculture of which you are a member. An acquaintance from that community contacts you about therapy services.
• Your specialty is sexual assault. You write a blog post about having compassion for pedophiles. You also work with childhood sexual assault survivors.
Discuss how you would handle them
Professional Standards
The “Anonymous” Web
General Strategies:• Publish a social media policy • Maintain your privacy settings• Trim your networks• Be intentional & remember no absolute privacy or anonymity• Educate your friends & family about privacy needs
• Optional: use separate personal and professional accounts
Platform Specific Tactics
Thank you!Kathy G. Slaughter, LCSW
[email protected]: @SoaringIndy
Blog: www.soaringheartcounseling.com