Ethics: Top 10 Mistakes Made by Mental Health Professionals *Pre-Order* – Frederic G. Reamer

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This digital seminar is currently on pre-order meaning that the video will not be ready until 3-4 weeks after the program has taken place.

Some tough ethical situations can’t be taught in school. They can only be learned through personal experience or from hearing of other’s’ personal experiences.

This recording will teach you how to manage 10 of the most challenging ethical situations a mental health professional can face. These real-world issues are the greatest liability and licensing board threats and arise far more frequently than most realize.

Purchase today and:

• Learn How to Recognize and Avoid the Most Challenging Ethical Traps
• Hear Case Studies that Provide Examples of What to Do and What Not to Do
• Obtain Tips and Techniques that Can Be Implemented to Prevent Ethical Malpractice
• Learn from a Colleague Who Has Served as an Expert Witness in hundreds of Court and Licensing Board Cases Nationwide

1. Identify high-risk areas for mental health professionals, including confidentiality, professional boundaries, dual relationships, conflicts of interest, and documentation, among others.
2. Establish how to maintain ethical standards when utilizing technology to deliver services remotely (for example, using video, social media, text, and email), communicate with clients, and manage and store sensitive information.
3. Apply practical, ethics-based protocols to protect clients and prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints.

How Would You Handle These Ethical Challenges?

1) Failure to Protect Confidentiality

• Scenario – A clinical psychologist disclosed clinical records in response to a subpoena without proper authorization.

2) Not Properly Balancing Minors & Parents Rights

• Scenario – The mother of a 15-yearold client requested a full copy of the psychotherapist’s notes.

3) Self-Disclosure – A Slippery Slope

• Scenario – A client in an addictions treatment program asked his clinician whether he is in recovery and who he voted for in the last presidential election.

4) Challenging Dual Relationship Traps

• Scenario – The clients of a marriage and family therapist offered her the free use of their vacation home.

5) Sticky Financial Issues – Billing, Fees and Gifts

• Scenario – A client who was an unemployed painter had a large unpaid counseling bill and offered to paint the counselor’s home to pay off the debt.

6) Duty to Warn – When to AND When Not to

• Scenario – A clinical social worker in a mental health center counseled a client who made threats against an unidentified estranged partner.

7) Inadequate Informed Consent

• Scenario – A clinical psychologist provided distance counseling services to a client who filed a licensing board complaint alleging substandard informed consent protocols.

8) Social Media Common Ethical Challenges

• Scenario – A case manager in a mental health agency received a Facebook “friend” request from a client with whom he often exchanged text messages using a messaging app that is not HIPAA compliant.

9) Distance Counseling

• Scenario – The client of an addictions counselor in private practice moved to another state and asked the counselor to continue providing services to him using Skype and text messaging.

10) Complex Documentation Decisions

• Scenario – The client of a mental health counselor divulged that he had committed a murder several years earlier while under the influence of illegal substances.