Navigating the Intersecting - Sometimes Divergent - Paths of Ethics, Morality and Legality with Dr Dave Gussak

As art therapists, we often find ourselves navigating the often intersecting, sometime disparate, paths of ethics, morality and legality. This webinar will focus on recognising these intersections and the often-confusing divergence therein, and will offer various strategies art therapists may use to address and mitigate such challenges. Dr Gussak (Florida State University), who has taught ethics for various graduate programs for more than 25 years and has helped develop the field's ethics documents, will rely on his clinical, research and supervisory experiences to facilitate discussions from which attendees will learn to: differentiate between ethical, moral and legal expectations; explain various circumstances in which these three philosophical circumstances may support one another, intersect or challenge each other within an art therapy context; and recognise various decision-making strategies to mitigate any disparities to provide the best attention for our clients. This webinar is open to art therapists at all levels within our professional and developmental journey and we also welcome members of the public to attend..

PRESENTER:

Dr. Dave Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is Professor for the Florida State University's Art Therapy Program and Project Coordinator for the FSU/FDC Art Therapy in Prisons program. He has presented and published extensively on forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings, including Art on Trial: Art Therapy for Capital Murder Cases (2013), Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity (2019) and most recently, The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence (2022). He is also the co-editor [with Dr. Marcia Rosal] of The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy (2016). He remains active in the American Art Therapy Association, and currently serves on the editorial board for Art Therapy: The Journal of the American Art Therapy Association and Arts In Psychotherapy along with other professional journals.

When: Thursday 28 March 2024
Time: 11am - 12.30pm AEDT (8am HKT & WA, 10am QLD, 1pm NZT)
Florida time 27 March 8-9.30 pm EDT
Duration/CPD: 1.5 hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: $40  (+ GST for Australian members)
Open to: All members and non-members
Max Participants: Unlimited
Recorded session: No (privacy reasons)

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