Live Workshops

• Summarize the areas of high risk for professional psychology practice
• Describe how to implement risk management strategies from a conceptual perspective
• Discuss how to deal with healthcare record audits
• Recognize how state mandates impact professional conduct in order to maintain a client-oriented approach when dealing with ethical dilemmas
• Explain how to place limits on your role when called upon to be part of a legal proceeding

• Describe at least five basic principles of ethics and risk management, as applied to several specific clinical situations that frequently arise in professional practice.
• Identify three risk factors and warning signs of distress/impairment in ourselves and our colleagues, and list three primary interventions for managing professional distress/impairment, and delineate two factors to consider when preparing for a conversation with a potentially impaired colleague and for deciding the appropriateness of a formal or informal ethical resolution.
• Describe two methods for effectively engaging in challenging conversations regarding race and ethnicity with colleagues, supervisors/supervisees, and patients/clients.
• Define the Information Blocking Rule and explain two strategies for ethically managing risk related to this rule.
• Identify three types of immunity provisions that protect psychologists who make mandated child abuse reports; and list three steps psychologists can take to minimize their risk in these situations.
• Apply at least two risk management strategies for decreasing risks when involving collaterals in treatment and/or providing conjoint psychological services.
• List four broad categories of factors to consider when determining whether to provide cross-jurisdictional telepsychological services.
• Discuss four strategies for ethically and safely managing patients/clients who exhibit stalking, threatening, or harassing behaviors.

• Describe three general challenges to unbiased decision-making
• Identify three vulnerabilities that can affect clinician decision-making, in particular
• List four strategies to address decision-making bias and improve ethical and risk management choices
• Summarize three risk-related aspects to remote service provision
• Differentiate general areas in which professional advocacy is and is not appropriate
• Identify two issues when psychotherapy patients make quasi-forensic requests
• Evaluate three methods of engaging in self-care to support better practice and risk-management

• Describe basic principles of risk management, as applied to several specific clinical situations that frequently arise in professional practice.
• Identify core heuristics and biasing processes that can interfere with appropriate risk management and ethical decision-making.
• List three strategies to ameliorate decision-making challenges.
• Describe preliminary considerations prior to engaging in interjurisdictional practice.
• Evaluate potential issues and preventive responses to supervisory risks.
• Identify three methods for reducing privacy risks when using technology in clinical practice and responding appropriately to breaches if they occur.
• Name three strategies for handling subpoenas and deposition demands.

• Describe basic principles of risk management, as applied to several specific clinical situations that frequently arise in professional practice.
• Identify high risk boundary violations and multiple relationship situations.
• Recall important considerations when making therapeutic termination decisions.
• Evaluate potential risks when working with children in high conflict families.
• Formulate a plan for responding to disciplinary or legal complaints.
• Identify issues and strategies when psychotherapy patients make quasi-forensic requests.

• Summarize The Trust’s risk management philosophy, including strategies for identifying high risk situations and managing professional practice risks.
• Develop and review strategies for managing digital record keeping challenges.
• Describe risks regarding emerging approaches to telepsychology practice.
• Identify strategies for managing online and social media risks.
• List three aspects of psychology’s developing state compacts (PSYPACT).
• Identify three areas in which technology will increasingly impact the practice of psychology.

• Discuss The Trust risk management philosophy, including strategies for identifying high risk situations and managing professional practice risks.
• Identify strategies for managing potential conflicts in conjoint treatment with couples and families.
• Identify risk management strategies in working with children with an emphasis on the risks associated with divorced or divorcing families.
• Identify essential risk management strategies for assessing and managing outpatient suicide risk.
• Identify “post-vention” strategies for managing risk after a patient suicide.
• Identify “self care” strategies for psychologists who have suffered the loss of a patient to suicide.
• Describe the different professional retirement pathways.
• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of various strategies in planning for your own personal and professional retirement.
• Describe how to effectively and ethically close a professional practice.

• Summarize the basic principles of The Trust’s risk management philosophy.
• Identify the three major changes in the organization and delivery of healthcare services that will impact psychological practice.
• Develop a strategy for transitioning to, and working with, electronic health record systems.
• Develop documentation strategies for interacting with medical homes and other medical healthcare delivery systems.
• Describe three boundary implications of technology and steps to address them.
• Summarize the structure through which DHHS is increasing its HIPAA enforcement processes and their implications for practitioners.

• Identify the basic principles of a risk management strategy.
• Establish an approach to identifying and resolving complex, high risk dilemmas that frequently arise in professional practice.

Evaluate and better manage:

• Challenges presented by the “online world,” including online reviews.
• Difficult, high risk patients in a developing impasse.
• Uncooperative clients and multiple relationships.

• Apply basic ethical principles to evaluate risks, benefits, and appropriateness of using various electronic communication and social media networking in professional practice in different situations.
• Identify ethical, legal, and disciplinary trends concerning electronic communication to anticipate, plan, and adjust professional practices accordingly.
• Evaluate when and how to provide remote professional services in a way that minimizes disciplinary risk.
• Understand, apply, and integrate the laws and legal principles governing remote practice within and between states.
• Identify various kinds of professional credentials that increase professional mobility.
• Develop informed consent, documentation amendments, and professional consultation policies to accommodate remote practice and electronic communication.
• Identify important privacy and confidentiality issues created by electronic communication technologies, and clearly discuss these risks with clients.
• Evaluate and improve competency in utilizing electronic technology and providing remote services to clients.
• Discuss and apply ethically based strategies to manage disciplinary risks of remote communication and service delivery, focusing on documentation, consultation, informed consent, and competency.

• Familiarity with the fundamentals of ethical philosophy that are the foundation of all healthcare ethics codes.
• Understanding how these fundamentals drive the development of ethics codes and professional standards.
• Recognizing where these fundamentals are specifically expressed in the law and in the 2002 APA Ethics Code.
• Knowledge of the primary provisions of the 2002 APA Ethics Code.
• Awareness of how the law impacts ethics codes and the relationship of ethics to law.
• Expertise in how to use ethical fundamentals in decision-making.
• Interaction with other colleagues on specific ethical dilemmas, arriving at ethically based decisions on how to deal with difficult cases.

• Applying basic strategies for identifying high risk situations and managing professional practice risks.
• Better managing interactions with lawyers and the legal system, including responding to subpoenas and other information requests, providing testimony at depositions and in court, and using strategies for interacting with attorneys.
• Recognizing potential conflicts in conjoint treatment with couples and families, with particular emphasis on the special risks associated with divorce.
• Describing essential risk management strategies for identifying and managing outpatient suicide risk.
• Applying ethical and legal standards governing these areas of practice.

• Discuss and apply what is new in the world of ethics.
• Acquire an approach to identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas that arise in professional practice.
• Identify practice situations that present the greatest risk to clinical practitioners, both now and in the future.
• Acquire essential information about disciplinary complaints and malpractice actions.
• Review important HIPAA Privacy Rule issues and be introduced to the HIPAA Security Rule.
• Provide essential information about laws governing therapeutic confidentiality and exceptions.
• Understand the distinction between privilege and confidentiality.
• Determine how and when to consult with others to reduce the risk of disciplinary complaints and demonstrate compliance with the appropriate standards of care.
• Determine what information should and should not be included in the patient’s records.