Could Therapists Be Harming Clients With OCD Without Realizing It?
Unintentional harm in OCD treatment often comes from good intentions and mismatched tools—not unethical intent.
#OCD #ClinicalEthics #TherapistEducation

Join us for the 31st Annual Healthcare Ethics Consortium Conference, March 23/24. 10.75 hours of Social Work Ethics Credits are approved. CME and CNE credits under review. Virtual or In Person #HEC2026 #EmoryEthics #NarrativeMedicine #healthcareethics #bioethics #clinicalethics #healthcareCEUs

New Clinical Ethics Case Study 🩺

Ethicists examine a complex ER scenario involving a patient w/ suicidal thoughts, and a preexisting DNR order—and whether that directive should be respected.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4jJj6Ic

#ClinicalEthics #EndOfLifeCare #MentalHealth #DNR

🎄 The Gift of Presence is the best gift a therapist can give.

We wish you Self-Compassion, Ethical Clarity and Clinical Agility this festive season. Rest, restore, and be ready for the New Year.

Merry Christmas from the team at CICS 🥂

#TherapistLife #ClinicalEthics #CICS

Attire is never neutral. The dilemma: How to balance professional safety (managing transference/eroticism) with authenticity (challenging code-switching).

🔗 Read the full post. Link in bio.

#TherapistAttire #ClinicalEthics #CICS

Supervision is where you grow. It's the critical space to process difficult cases, check your ethical blind spots, and manage your own clinical baggage. If you're not challenged in supervision, you're not utilizing it fully. 🧠
#SocialWork #Supervision #ProfessionalDevelopment #ClinicalEthics

Does it matter what a therapist wears?

Julie Sale & Marcelline Menyié team up to explore this ethical question. It’s about transference vs. authenticity, and why what you wear is never neutral.

What you wear is an extension of identity.

🔗 Link in bio.

#TherapistAttire #ClinicalEthics #CICS

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Are we running ahead of the client? 🤔

The pressure to "fix" or find solutions can make us sprint past where the client actually is. Ethical practice means respecting their pace. Slowness is a clinical tool.

#TherapeuticPace #ClinicalEthics #Psychotherapy #CICS

What's the hardest word to say in the room? 🤐

Ethical practice demands that we name and address systemic issues like "power", and "privilege". We train therapists to develop the courage to speak the unspeakable.

#AntiOppressivePractice #ClinicalEthics #TherapistTraining #CICS (300 characters)

Refuting the Claims and Reframing the Reality of Nursing The Claims We’ve Heard 1. “The system runs on the back of nurses — breaking themselves to keep it from collapsing.”2. “We (nurses) are the safety net for a system with holes too big to mend.”3. “It’s ...

www.nursewhowrites.com/post/refutin...

#NursingShortageMyth #NurseStaffing #HealthcareEconomics #MedicalErrors #HospitalUnderstaffing #PatientSafety #NurseAdvocacy #HealthcareReform #NurseWhoWrites #ShiftWorkersParadox #SystemicChange #NursingLeadership #WorkforceReality #ClinicalEthics

The 2026 National Nursing Ethics Conference Call for Poster Abstracts is now open! Submissions will be accepted through midnight PST on Saturday, December 6, 2025.

Apply now at ethicsofcaring.org/abstracts.

#2026NNEC #nursing #ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics
#dontclockout #ANA #DAISY #aacn

In Psychology we pay such close attention to ethical practices & rigour in research- why is this different for @ouhospitals.bsky.social @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social?

Using patient data without due consent processes 🤔

#ClinicalEthics #ReproEthics #InformedConsent

July ‘24 I complained to @ox.ac.uk re the use of patient data collected via MNVP FB survey w/o ethical approval or patient consent by academics, #OxfordUniversityHospitals staff & the MNVP (funded by NHS BOB ICB)- jme.bmj.com/content/51/5/j…

Oxford University said no issues…🤷‍♀️

#ClinicalEthics

And yet while women are ignored & not listened to by maternity staff at OUH, their data is used for research projects, & they are suddenly of interest when the harm they experienced can be ‘showcased’ in medical journals.

#Clinicalethics?

familiesfailedbyOUH.co.uk
#HealthPsychology #ReproEthics

#sundayvibes #firstfullyearofgradschool #postjd #bioethics #publichealth #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #gratefulthankfulblessed

A little of what I've been doing this summer to build a foundation in clinical and public health ethics.

#bioethics #publichealth #medicalhumanities #clinicalethics #publichealthethics #cwru

It is less than one month away from our Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics live conference! Our live sessions have interactive analysis components and open discussions with experts in the field. Registration is still open, we hope to see you there!

#MedicalEducation #ClinicalEthics #HealthJustice

“Don’t Tell Them Anything”: Should Surrogate Decision-Makers Be Allowed to Withhold Information from Other Family Members or Prevent Them from Visiting with a Patient? - HEC Forum While patients have the right to control who has access to their health information and designate visitors, it is not always clear whether—when a patient lacks capacity—their surrogate also exercises such rights. States and federal laws are often vague about the limits of surrogate authority. Even where legal or institutional guidance on this issue is clear, requests by surrogates to withhold information or restrict visitation with a patient can be a source of ethical uncertainty and distress on the part of the clinical team. This paper explores the ethical issues raised by such requests. To date, there has been little exploration of this issue in the clinical ethics literature. First, we summarize the scant existing ethical and legal guidance on this issue. Second, we present two potential approaches to navigating requests from surrogates to withhold information or restrict visitation. Third, we discuss the merits and limitations of both approaches, and introduce some additional considerations that further complicate the picture. We argue for a flexible restrictive approach to information-sharing, and a constrained permissive approach to visitation. Finally, we propose several considerations that clinicians and clinical ethicists might think through in these situations to help guide their practice.

🚨 our new article is out now in HEC Forum! in it, we explore how to navigate requests by surrogate decision-makers to withhold information from other family members or prevent them from visiting with a patient 🚨 #clinicalethics #medicaldecisionmaking

The 5 June issue of the British Journal of Nursing features infection prevention, clinical ethics, mental health in nurse education, and safeguarding vulnerable patients.

🔗 Access the full issue: magonlinelibrary.com/toc/bjon/34/11

#InfectionPrevention #ClinicalEthics #Safeguarding

I’m genuinely curious to hear from those working in this space—ethicists, geneticists, clinicians. Am I missing key safeguards or good practice models? Open to being corrected/challenged. I’m here to learn as much as to provoke.
#bioethics #genomics #clinicalethics

Genuine question: are all parents being offered genetic counselling before enrolling in these studies? Are there enough trained counsellors to do this well? If not, who is helping them interpret what these tests might mean—for now and for the future?
#clinicalethics #geneticcounselling

Yes, kids too. With expert guidance, cannabis is helping in epilepsy, autism, and more. Careful doesn’t mean reckless. #PediatricCannabis #ClinicalEthics #ScienceBasedCare

🍋 Turning Lemons into Lemonade: Studying the Emotional Impact of Clinical Ethics Consultation

NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum Essay by Anna D. Goff. Read 📖, bit.ly/4jdHX5N

#HastingsCenter #Bioethics #ClinicalEthics #HealthcareEthics #EthicsInMedicine

Thank you to our sponsors for helping Ethics of Caring create a space for learning, connection, and growth at the 2025 NNEC!

#nursing #ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics #socialworkers #socialwork #casemanagement #hospitalchaplain #chaplain #ethicsofcaring #NNEC2025 #nurseleaders #ANA #DAISY

Clinical Ethics in Disability: The Role of Decision-Making Competence Autonomy and decision-making competence are defined for their relevance in clinical ethics. The facilitators of decision-making competence for people with disabilities or diversity are then outlined. ...

“Disabled people have the right to make their own
decisions in all areas of life, on the same basis as
other people” UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability

Read our chapter on decision-making competence:

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#clinicalethics #healthpsychology

#nursing #ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics #socialworkers #socialwork #casemanagement #hospitalchaplain #chaplain #ethicsofcaring #NNEC2025 #nurseleaders #oncologynurses #palliativecare #dontclockout #ANA #DAISY #moraldistress #moralinjury #moralimagination #mattering #criticalcarenurse #aacn

Full interview with Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN here: ethicsofcaring.org/2025-speaker....

Register by Feb 18 to receive our lowest registration prices - ethicsofcaring.org/registration/.

#ethics #nursingethics #clinicalethics #ethicsofcaring #NNEC2025 #nurseleaders #dontclockout #ANA #DAISY