Ethics 2.0 When Clinical Goes Digital – Jeff Ashby

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Digital Technology Has Changed the Way We Serve our Clients. 

Including their interactions with you, their clinician.

Whether we like it or not, COVID-19 has ushered in the new age of social distancing—and the internet, telehealth and distance therapy are now a necessary part of the mental health landscape.

But working in the complex and rapidly changing world of technology makes many clinicians anxious about how to offer quality, ethical mental health treatment.

Renowned ethics expert Jeff Ashby, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S has devoted 20+ years of his career to ensuring clinicians like you understand—and can effectively apply in practice—the essential legal and ethical best-practices for using technology with clients.

Now you can join Dr. Ashby in this unique online training course that explores today’s ethical issues related to online privacy, informed consent, social media, and more. 

Using humor, story-telling, case studies, and exercises, Jeff equips you with the information necessary to identify possible areas of negligence within your practice, address complex ethical dilemmas, and establish ethical practices that ensure client safety, confidentiality, and quality mental health services.

You’ll end this training confident in your ability to address complex ethical dilemmas while maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice.

Bonus! Lock in your FREE eBook, Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Clinicians, (a $19.99 value) when you enroll today!

Are you using “the most up-to-date” encryption standards when storing and communicating client information?

Do you have an appropriate relationship to the readers of your blog or followers on your social media sites?

Are you breaking HIPAA and not even realizing it?

If you find yourself wondering about questions like these, this is the course for you!

This insightful and comprehensive online training will help you establish clear ethical guidelines and practices when using technology in your work with clients. You’ll discover:

• Potential road blocks that can occur within the client-therapist relationship when there’s a difference in digital or social comprehension
• The ethical decision making process you follow and the potential risks inherent in different ethical theories
• The limitations of your competence and how you would defend them if challenged

Here’s what you’ll learn in each of the course modules:

Ethics & Technology: Where We Are Today

Discover the five ethical-decision making processes and uncover the theory you most closely align with.

You’ll also find out how your decision-making informs your practice and how your personal values impact your conversations and recommendations with clients.

• Discuss the five primary purposes of ethics
• Understand the importance of knowing and understanding current codes, laws, and rules in relationship to technology
• Consider the possible—and implied—fiduciary relationships to your clients and the gray area technology brings
• Learn the risk of malpractice and negligence in today’s world
• Uncover whether you are a digital native or a digital immigrant—and learn to identify what your clients are so you can enhance your therapeutic work
• Discover what makes something an ethical dilemma
• Review the two levels of moral reasoning and how they can impact your decisions
• And much more…

Understanding Ethical Issues And How They Inform And Impact Your Practice

Understand the four primary ethical issues of informed consent, competence, confidentiality, and dual/multiple relationships.

• Have a complete understanding of informed consent—it’s much more than “a form clients sign”
• Understand the potential gray areas with technology and distance counseling/tele-mental health
• Recognize what it means to be competent in something and where you draw the lines in your own practice
• Learn the challenges with confidentiality when living in an age of information
• Be able to analyze the use of email and texting in your own practice and identify areas where you may be breaking confidentiality
• Understand what qualifies as dual or multiple relationships and how they (or an interaction) could be interpreted by someone else
• And a lot more…

Controlling Your Web Visibility & Self-Disclosure Practices

Get step-by-step guidance on how to analyze your web presence and how you—intentionally or not—self disclose on the internet. You’ll understand privacy settings, the importance of distinguishing personal and professional social networking sites, and how to maintain clear boundaries with clients.

• Know the importance of controlling your web visibility and the potential impact of posted information
• Understand the four different kinds of self-disclosure and what to consider when you choose to do so
• Be confident in how you establish appropriate relationships with clients—online and offline
• And SO much more…