Ethics and Technology: Protect Your Clients and Avoid Litigation – Frederic Reamer

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$199.99   $60 – Ethics and Technology: Protect Your Clients and Avoid Litigation – Frederic Reamer

• Extensive Ethics Case Examples
• Social Network Boundary Issues
• Electronic Documentation Challenges
• Crossing Licensing Jurisdictions
• E-Therapy Limitations

You help people – it’s what you do as a behavioral health professional and your practice is about relationships.

But, you are now facing unprecedented ethical challenges in this digital age.

Technology forces you to:

• Rethink the way you deliver services
• Communicate with clients
• Access and store sensitive information

You need information to meet licensure requirements to insure that your client’s rights are protected and to help you practice within complex legal expectations.

Your practice can thrive or fail depending on your decisions and knowledge, especially in ethical issues.

This intense workshop will address these emerging issues, along with a wide range of enduring complex ethical challenges in behavioral health. Through extensive use of case material, Dr. Reamer will move far beyond introductory ethics concepts to investigate ethical dilemmas and challenges related to technology and relationships. Ample opportunity will be provided for audience participation.

1. Identify ethical challenges that are unique to practitioners’ use of digital and other technology.
2. Describe ethics guidelines and protocols that address challenges in the digital age.
3. Compare standards of care and ethical standards.
4. Explain practical ethical decision-making frameworks and protocols for digital technology.
5. Identify ethical issues that pose malpractice and liability risks.
6. Discuss strategies to protect clients and practitioners from digital pitfalls.

ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN THE DIGITAL AGE: THE ANATOMY OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PRESENTATION OF DIFFICULT CASES

• Communicating with clients using technology
• Managing and storing electronic information
• Delivering services using technology

COMMON ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

• Managing online social networks: Boundary challenges
• Using online search engines: Challenging privacy issues
• Clients’ access to practitioner’s electronic records: Documentation challenges
• Providing services across licensing jurisdictions: Legal risks
• Counseling clients you never meet in person: Ethical implications

RISK-MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO PROTECT CLIENTS, PREVENT ETHICS COMPLAINTS AND LITIGATION

• The relationship between standards of care and ethical standards

ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES

• Decision-making protocols in the digital age
• Codes of ethics
• Ethics literature
• Ethics committees
• Relevant regulations, statutes, and case law
• Professional practice standards: Standard and digital

$199.99   $60 – Ethics and Technology: Protect Your Clients and Avoid Litigation – Frederic Reamer