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ForwardSession Eight: Case by Case: Ethics for Mental Health Professionals
This seminar will cover professional boundaries, confidentiality, and duty to warn/protect cases, as well as emerging ethical issues concerning electronic health records, interstate licensing requirements, social media, virtual therapy and a virtual world and legislative updates. Dr. Anderson will review major ethical issues in mental health practice and will lead case discussion including cases from participants. Focus will start with ethical principles, methods for resolution of ethical dilemmas, and then will move to informed consent and to emerging issues in ethics for mental health providers.
Target Audience
- Physician
- Nurse Practitioner
- Physician Assistant
- Nurse
- Pharmacist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Psychiatry Residents
- Medical Students
- Allied Health Professionals
Learning Objectives
- Review ethical issues including ethical principles, methods for resolution, informed consent, and virtual therapy issues.
- Describe ethical issues in professional boundaries, confidentiality, and duty to warn/ protect cases.
- Discuss emerging ethical issues concerning electronic records, interstate licensing requirements, social media, and legislative updates.
- Discuss ethics cases from participants
Thursday:
- Introduction
- Analyzing and resolving ethical issues;
- Ethical principles of psychologists (and others) and code of conduct;
- Informed consent;
- Special roles of mental health professionals;
- Cases for discussion.
Friday:
- Professional boundaries;
- Knowing your limits;
- Confidentiality and duty to warn;
- Licensure board and sanctions;
- Emerging issues;
- Electronic records, interstate licensing, new communication technologies, and legislative update;
- APA suggestions to avoid ethical problems;
- Virtual mental health care.
- Cases for discussion from audience
Professor of Psychiatry and
the Institute for Health and Equity-Bioethics and Humanities
Medical College of Wisconsin
Program Director
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Medical College of Wisconsin
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Science
Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Physician Assistant
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Medical College of Wisconsin
Accreditation Statement
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians
Designation of Credit Statement
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Hours of Participation for Allied Health Professionals
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for up to 15.0 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.
"This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886840778-5635) for 15 continuing education contact hours."
Psychology CE Credit Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Medical College of Wisconsin maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
This activity contains content or processes that may be potentially stressful.
Available Credit
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
- 6.00 Hours of ParticipationHours of Participation credit.
- 6.00 NASW
Price
Early bird registration NOW EXTENDED through June 14th, 2023:
Tuition for 2-day sessions will be reduced to $265 and to $175 for graduate and medical students and resident physicians with a letter from the training director.
Refunds, minus a $50 administrative fee, may be obtained if requested in writing no later than 15 days prior to the beginning of each session. There will be no refunds thereafter.
**The deadline for claiming credit is November 30, 2023, after which you will not be able to obtain your credits. From December 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 you can claim credit for a $25 fee paid to the Office of Continuing Professional Development.**
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