Sliding Scales and Cancellation Fees: Competing Clinical and Ethical Considerations | Jan 8 | 10 AM–1 PM ET (9:30 AM Arrival) | Glenside, PA 19038

Some basic policy questions: How did you determine your service fee? Do you offer a sliding scale? If so, to whom, under what circumstances? What is your late cancellation policy?

Some harder questions: Do you ever feel guilty or underappreciated based on your fee? Is your sliding scale based solely on presenting economics, or do factors like client likability, clinician
guilt, difficulty of the presenting issues, etc. play into your decisions?

And how about late cancellation policies? Are they individually applied, sometimes with internal punitive impulses, sometimes with internal avoidance of conflict with your client?

It shouldn’t surprise us that issues related to payment are ripe for both client and clinician enactments of anxiety, guilt and aggression. Our management of these issues pose ethical risks and opportunities.

This 3-hour ethics workshop will be primarily didactic as we explore issues that arise for both client and clinician in this pinnacle element of the therapeutic frame, that helps define the boundaries of the clinical relationship.

Facilitator is particularly skilled at evoking a shame-free
environment for clinicians to explore unchartered territory ripe with accidental enactment.

Wanderhome Retreats, #2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/26/26–6/26/27. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.

Friday January 8th

Time: 10am-1pm ET (with 9:30 arrival)

Location: Live, Glenside 19038