Reach Out and Shrink Someone-Clinical Practice in the Age of Technology

The 21st Century has brought innovations that require therapists to consider confidentiality, record keeping, and boundary controversies especially in this time of online therapy during and post the covid epidemic. This workshop will address therapist competency, working across state lines, expectations of privacy working online, required informed consent, record keeping, and reputation protection. Literature updates, expert opinions, and relevant ethics codes will be discussed. Less...

Learning Objectives

Discuss the importance of the “Third party rule” in the age of technology.
Prepare an informed consent form for online therapy.
Identify ethical issues related to when psychotherapists can practice across state lines.

Target Audience

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

Learning Levels

All Levels

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT

EARN 3 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Pamela Harmell, Ph.D.

Professor, Pepperdine University

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.

Agenda

11am - 12:30pm ET
•    The basics of practicing vigilant ethics
•    The “Four Sorting Bins” ethical decision making
•    Four mechanisms holding psychotherapists accountable
•    Types of unethical practice
•    Definitions and terminology for telepsychology
•    What does the APA say about working across state lines
•    Psychotherapists as “essential” workers?
•    Providing teletherapy across state lines
•    Working across state lines in the time of covid
12:30am - 12:45am Break
12:45pm - 2:15pm ET
•    Third party rule
•    Handling social media
•    Social media policy
•    Including Texts and emails in patient records
•    Ethical issues related to patient-therapist online searches
•    Barriers to telepsychology
•    Statistics and prevalence of internet users
•    Research on use of internet by psychotherapists
•    Confidentiality issues (Internet Information; Difference between confidentiality and privilege)
•    Recommendations for therapists who use the internet
•    How to protect your patients
•    How to protect your practice
•    Reputation protection (Legal and ethical issues/ Yelp & other online issues)

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours including

3 Ethics Hour

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Reach Out and Shrink Someone-Clinical Practice in the Age of Technology, Course #5084, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by CE Learning Systems, LLC. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 07/18/2023 - 07/18/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits. ACE individual course approval meets the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners requirements for individual course approval pursuant to NJ Code 13:44G-6.4.16.

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