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Current Perspectives on Critical Legal and Ethical Issues for Psychotherapists: Best Practices

In-Person
3.5 CE Hours
Ethics, General

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Description

This workshop addresses the therapist’s responsibility to ensure patient welfare in all aspects of practice. Participants will learn about ethical concerns such as ethical decision-making and introduction to law and ethics, relationships among suicide, social media, and substance abuse, including suicide assessment, cultural humility, intersectionality, and ethical guidelines. All discussion areas will include literature updates, relevant Codes of Ethics, and current expert opinions. This program overviews the current research findings and knowledge that inform ethical and legal practice.

Target Audience
  • • Counselors
  • • Addiction Counselors
  • • Social Workers
  • • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • • Physicians
  • • Nurses
  • • Psychologists
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • List the 4 ways psychotherapists are held accountable for their actions as clinicians.

  • Explain why cultural humility is mandatory for ethical practice

  • Define NSSI and describe how at least 3 aspects of NSSI are important when working with teens.

  • List 2 reasons why Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectionality is important for understanding cultural issues.

References

  • Mitchell, L. (2017). Suicide and social media, Healthfeed. Downloaded 9/26/17 healthcare.Utah.edu/healthcare/posting

  • Modic, D. (2018). The dark triad and willingness to commit insurance fraud, Cogent Psychology, 5(1), 1-12

  • Mosher, B. et al, (2017). Cultural humility: A therapeutic framework for engaging diverse clients. Practice Innovations 21, 221-233.

  • Rimes, K., et al. (2019). Research Trends Psychosocial Factors Associated With Suicide Attempts, Ideation, and Future Risk in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth The Youth Chances StudyCrisis 40(2), 83–92 https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000527

  • Schmidt, C. & Gelhert, N. (2019) Couples tx and empathy: an evaluation of the impact of imago relationship treatment on partner empathy levels, The Family Journal, 25(1)

  • Sue, D. et al (2019). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (8th Ed.) NY: Wiley.

  • Wasserman, D.(2019) Review of health risk behaviors, mental health problems and suicide behavior in youth. Psychiatry Pol. 50(6), 1093-1107

Introductory
Ethics
General
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3.5 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Physicians

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.health.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

Physicians (ACCME)

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.health.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 3.5 ANCC contact hours.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Pamela Harmell, PhD

Dr. Pamela Harmell is a national lecturer specializing in legal and ethical issues in clinical practice. She is a Clinical 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 the Past President of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.

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