Confidentiality and Privilege in Psychotherapy with Minors

Psychotherapy with minors presents many potential ethical challenges related to confidentiality and privileged communication. Noted authority Dr. Bruce Hillowe, trained both as an attorney and a psychologist, will lead this webinar for practicing clinicians. Topics to be discussed include: informed consent, minors and the necessity of parental involvement; reporting child abuse and neglect, limits of the mandate, and crimes against children; the SAFE Act and reporting of dangerousness; access to minors' records by parents and third parties; involvement in family legal matters and the role of t...Read morehe treating therapist/fact-witness. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • state 3 legal issues involved in the confidentiality of treatment information of minor patients.
  • state 2 risk management principles consistent with best practices involved in confidentiality of treatment information of minors.
  • state what is required vis a vis assent and consent with minors in therapy.

Learning Levels

  • Introductory
  • Intermediate

Friday, May 07, 2021

Live Interactive Webinar

12:00 PM EDT - 01:00 PM EDT

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EARN 1 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD

Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD

Attorney and Counselor at Law
Bruce V. Hillowe, J.D., Ph.D. is a mental healthcare attorney with a law practice in Garden City, New York. A graduate of Binghamton University, Duke University School of Law, and Adelphi University Derner Institute (Clinical Psychology and Postdoctoral Programs), he formerly practiced as a psychologist-psychoanalyst, including as a coordinator of clinical training and director of a forensic mental health service. He was a teaching attending psychologist in law and ethics at a major teaching hospital for 15 years. He currently teaches courses in ethics and law as adjunct faculty at the Derner Institute. He is legal counsel to numerous mental health facilities, institutes, and practitioners and sponsors legal plans for professional associations. He has written articles and book chapters including for law reviews and healthcare publications, is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in healthcare law and was a "SuperLawyer" featured in the New York Times Magazine.

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