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09/17/2014

Webinar Announcement: Rural Clergy and Confidentiality: An Ethics Review, Sept 30 2 pm

This interactive webinar will explore commonly occurring ethical issues surrounding confidentiality and privacy for rural clergy. The training will highlight several rural characteristics that impact ethical issues for today's clergy, including over-lapping professional-personal relationships, shared community culture, and the role of churches in small communities in an environment where everyone knows one another. These unique rural characteristics dramatically affect both the presentation and the response to confidentiality and privacy concerns arising in pastoral care. Through the use of case studies, the training will identify basic ethical standards for clergy and those occasions when there may be an ethical and legal justification for breaching confidentiality. The webinar will give participants the opportunity to share situations when questions concerning confidentiality impacted their ministry. The webinar will identify important resources that clergy might consider using in addressing questions of confidentiality.

Learning Objectives
Following the webinar, participants will be able to:
1) Identify the ethical basis for clergy confidentiality.
2) Explore common, recurring confidentiality situations that arise
for clergy members.
3) Recognize the need to clearly state statutes and laws regarding
clergy confidentiality, especially required reporting laws.
4) Discuss practical ideas that your community can implement to
help returning Veterans and their families.

REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR NOW!
You will receive the link to the webinar with your registration confirmation.

Your Presenter
Dr. William Nelson, a former VA chaplain is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Rural Ethics Initiatives in the Department of Community and Family Medicine; Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire. In addition to receiving a MDiv, he has earned a PhD in applied ethics. Dr. Nelson has received many awards, is a frequent speaker throughout the United States and abroad and has published over 85 articles. Despite leaving the VA he continues to collaborate with the National VA Chaplain Center and Rural Clergy Training Program
(RCTP) in fostering the important role of chaplains and clergy in the care of Veterans.

We hope you will join us for this informative interactive presentation.
Click this link to register:
http://www.ruralhealth.va.gov/ruralclergytraining/webinars/confidentiality-and-clergy.asp

Sincerely,
A. Keith Ethridge, M.Div., BCC, ACPE
Associate Director, National Chaplain Center Department of Veterans Affairs

Did you miss our first webinar, "Bringing Your Community Together to Bring Our Veterans Home"?
You can view it here: https://chapvaco.adobeconnect.com/p5g2cjl1vdc

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