Learn the differences between clear and unclear boundaries as well as how to recognise and report breaches of professional boundaries within the workplace.
What are therapeutic relationships? What is a professional boundary? Why are professional boundaries important within the workplace? What are some consequences of poor professional boundaries? How are professional boundaries established? Who should negotiate boundaries? What can be involved within a boundary violation? What factors impact professional boundaries? What are the 3 stages of burnout? What are some examples of healthy boundaries? What drives a healthy boundary? What is vicarious or secondary trauma? What is boundary transgression?
Our Professional Boundaries course will help you to answer the questions above and more.
Professional boundaries are a set of guidelines, expectations and rules which set the ethical and technical standards in the social care environment. They set limits for safe, acceptable, and effective behaviour by workers.
Through our Professional Boundaries course, you will gain an understanding of what a professional boundary is. You will develop an understanding of how to identify responsibilities in practice. You will learn why professional boundaries are important in health and social care. You will learn how to distinguish between clear and unclear boundaries. You will learn what professional and unprofessional behaviour is. You will learn how a boundary may be broken. You will learn what processes should be in place to prevent a boundary from being breached.
What you'll learn.
- What therapeutic relationships are as well as what a professional boundary is.
- Understand the consequences of poor professional boundaries on staff within the workplace.
- Understand the impact a breach of a professional boundary can have on an individual.
- Recognise the importance of what factors are impacted upon.
- Understand what stress and a burnout is.
Who is Professional Boundaries Training for?
Our Professional Boundaries course is for everyone. Whatever care or non-care sector you work in our session would be suitable to provide knowledge of the importance of setting boundaries within the workplace as well as the managers role during a breach.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of this course, you will be able to…
- Explain what a therapeutic relationship is.
- Discuss professional boundaries and identify responsibilities in practice.
- Recognise and report breaches of professional boundaries.
- Be able to state the meaning and risks of dual relationships.
- Demonstrate professional behaviour and identify risk factors and boundary concern.
- Develop knowledge, skills and strategies that will increase your knowledge about professional boundaries.
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