Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals: Best Practices
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Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals: Best Practices

Sat, Nov 5th, 2022
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

This workshop addresses therapist responsibility to ensure patient welfare in all aspects of practice. Participants will learn to deal with ethical dilemmas such as (1) Ethical decision-making for ethical dilemmas (3) Crisis intervention and proper intake, (2) when therapist values conflict with patient values (highlighting two precedent-setting legal cases, (4) Relationship between suicide, social media and substance abuse Literature updates, along with relevant Codes of Ethics and current expert opinion will be included in all areas of discussion. This program overviews the current research findings and knowledge that inform the practice of ethical and legal practice.

Live Event
This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Pamela Harmell

Pamela Harmell

Dr. Pamela Harmell, Ph. D. is a national lecturer specializing in legal and ethical issues in clinical practice. She is a Professor at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology and has written extensively in professional publications on ethical practice and has formally studied law. She is the Past President of the Board of Psychology. Dr. Harmell is the former Chair of the California State Ethics Committee and former Chair of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association Ethics Committee. She served on the Board of Directors of the California Psychological Association and is Past President of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 List the four ways clinicians are held accountable for their actions as they relate to licensing and disciplinary actions.
  2. 2 Summarize the trends in licensing and civil violations.
  3. 3 Describe two elements of a crisis intervention assessment.
  4. 4 Name two reasons why NSSI (non-suicidal self-injury) is related to suicide with minors and adults

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Asay, P., & Lal, A. (2014). Who’s googling whom? Trainees’ internet and online social networking experiences, behaviors, and attitudes with clients and supervisors. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 8(2), 105-111.

Bilsen, J. (2018). Suicide and youth: risk factors. Front Psychiatry, 9, 540.doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00540

Bohnert KM, Ilgen MA, Louzon S, McCarthy JF, & Katz IR. (2017). Substance use disorders and the risk of suicide mortality among men and women in the US Veterans Health Administration. Addiction.112(7):1193-1201. doi: 10.1111/add.13774. Epub 2017 Mar 16.

Dunlop SM, More E, Romer D. (2018).Where do youth learn about suicides on the Internet, and what influence does this have on suicidal ideation? J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2011;52(10):1073–1080[PubMed]

McKaya, T. et al., (2019). Suicide etiology in youth: Differences and similarities by sexual and gender minority status. Children and youth services review. 10, 79-90.

McNaughton, M. (2012, Jan 13). Social networking stTS: Facebook to reach one billion users by August. Retrieved 10/4/12 from http://therealtimereport.vom/2012/01/13/social-networking-stats-facebook-to-reach-one-billion-by-august-rltm-scoreboard/.

Hill, C. E., Knox, S., & Pinto -Coelho, K. G. (2018}. Therapist self-disclosure and immediacy: A qualitative meta-analysis. Psychotherapy, 55(4), 445-460. retrieved htt p:// dx.doi.org/10.1037/ost0000182 4/2/19

Harris, S. & Kurpius, S. (2014). Social networking and professional ethics: Client searches, informed consent, and disclosure. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 45(1), 11-19.

Hom, M., Podlogar, M., Stanley, E. & Joiner, T. (2017) Ethical Issues and Practical Challenges in Suicide Research Collaboration With Institutional Review Boards Crisis, 38(2), 107–114 DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000415

Remley, T. P., & Herlihy, B. (2014). Ethical, legal, and professional issues in counseling (p. 528). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

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