South Piedmont AHEC

Moral Courage (Ethics)

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Target Audience

Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, and other health care professionals.

Description

Frequently, ethical challenges in the helping professions don’t involve knowing the right thing to do. Rather, the dilemma is in having the courage to act ethically under adverse circumstances—a corrupt organizational climate or amid a risk to one’s livelihood. Yet without the courage to stand for those standards we value, what meaning do the standards have? This session explores the current thinking about moral courage, examines situations where it is called for, and offers exemplars and strategies for gaining and demonstrating moral courage.

Speaker
Dr. Kim Strom, PhD
Smith P. Theimann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work

This presenter is being supported through a partnership between UNC-CH, School of Social Work and the NCAHEC Program.

Webinar Information
This webinar will be broadcast with Zoom. Instructions to join the webinar will be emailed prior to the event. You can test your computer by going to the Zoom Test Page.

South Piedmont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. South Piedmont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.



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Objectives

  • Identify situations that call for moral courage.
  • Identify at least three exemplars of moral courage in the helping and health professions.
  • Analyze what moral courage is and is not.
  • Explore the barriers to acting on ethics.
  • Apply these concepts to case examples.
  • List resources for learning more about dilemmas in this domain of practice.

Sessions

Status
Open
Presenter(s)
Kimberly Strom MSW, LISW, PhD
Date(s)
Dec 3, 2025
Time
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM Eastern Time
Check-In Time
8:30 AM
Credit
0.40 - CEU
4.00 - Contact Hours
4.00 - NBCC Hours
4.00 - Contact Hours (category A) CE for NC Psychologists
Location
South Piedmont AHEC
Room
Live Webinar

75907Open


Dec 3, 2025
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM Eastern Time
South Piedmont AHEC
Live Webinar
Gabriela Staley MEd
704-512-6523

Fees


$85.00
Pre-registration Fee (before November 26, 2025).

Credits


0.40
CEU
4.00
Contact Hours
4.00
NBCC Hours
4.00
Contact Hours (category A) CE for NC Psychologists