LA26RM_131: "NASW-LA New Orleans Region Sponsored Workshop" FREE for Members. Topic: Ethics - Not Just for the Cool Kids: Treating Clients Outside Cultural Favor. Presented by: Elizabeth Black, LCSW-BACS, LICSW. During this presentation participants will: 1. Identify relevant sections of the NASW Code of Ethics that govern professional responsibility when working with culturally stigmatized or socially disfavored populations, such as right-leaning clients, sex workers, kink-identified individuals, firearms owners, and members of hate groups. 2. Differentiate between personal values, cultural biases, and professional ethical obligations, particularly in cases where a client’s identity, beliefs, or lawful behaviors conflict with the clinician’s own moral, political, or social views. 3. Analyze common ethical pitfalls—such as implicit bias, selective empathy, value imposition, and differential standards of care—that arise when serving groups perceived as “uncool,” controversial, or socially marginalized. 4. Apply ethical decision-making models to case scenarios involving unpopular or stigmatized client populations, with attention to competence, self-determination, dignity and worth of the person, and non-discrimination. 5. Evaluate the ethical limits of clinician self-disclosure, boundary-setting, and referral decisions when personal discomfort or ideological disagreement is present. 6. Demonstrate strategies for maintaining ethical, clinically appropriate engagement with clients whose identities, lifestyles, or political beliefs are legally protected but culturally contentious. 7. Recognize when discomfort, countertransference, or moral distress rises to an ethically actionable level requiring supervision, consultation, or additional training rather than avoidance or termination. 8. Formulate an individualized plan for ethical self-monitoring and bias mitigation to support equitable, competent care across diverse and unpopular cultural groups. 3.00 Ethical hours. Pre-registration is required to be awarded CEU credit.