Description: Everyone faces ethical dilemmas throughout their career. Being able to appropriately navigate these potential land minds is critical to the successful practice of social work. This training will cover ethical issues commonly faced by social workers during their career and offers strategies to effectively deal with them, as well as, to lessen the changes of such concerns arising in the future.

Learning Objectives:

1.  Identify common ethical issues faced by social workers

2.  Identify strategies to effectively deal with common ethical issues

3.  Identify strategies to lessen ethical concerns arising in the future

Speaker Bio: Peggy Reed-Lohmeyer is an LCSW in the state of Missouri. She earned her BSW from Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri & her MSW from University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked in a variety of fields, including youth residential, outpatient mental health, home health & hospice, corrections, as well as providing consultations at a medical hospital. The bulk of her clinical work was at Fulton State Hospital. After 25 years of service, she retired from full-time state employment, as FSH’s Risk Manager. She continued to work part-time for the hospital for 4 years, overseeing Peer Support Services. She has provided clinical supervision to numerous social workers over the years and continues to do so. She has taught college classes for the past 13 years, working at four area colleges. She has volunteered her social work services in the community over the years, including leading critical incident debriefings, grief support groups, suicide prevention education, and being the mental health professional on call at various events. She is Secretary of the Missouri Chapter of NASW & served as the Ethics Committee Chair.