- Workshop Description: For over two decades, The Trust has worked to educate and support psychologists in improving their ethics and risk management skills and strategies by providing live workshops, webinars, risk management consultations, and expanding resources. This 15th Workshop in our Sequence series continues to emphasize applied, integrated, and strategic methods to help you stay grounded in ethical principles and practices, thereby protecting you from adverse disciplinary and legal actions. Psychologists routinely encounter complex, high-stakes situations that require sound clinical judgment, ethical decision-making, and proactive risk management. This advanced workshop provides a deep dive into five of the most legally and ethically challenging areas of practice: compassionate and competent treatment of suicidal patients while balancing clinical and liability concerns, navigating the complexities of duty to protect obligations, working effectively with high-conflict families, managing subpoenas and courtroom testimony, and ensuring
- Learning Objectives:
- Describe five principles that can assist in improving ethical, clinical, and risk management judgments and decision-making.
- List three erroneous myths regarding patients/clients who become suicidal
- Name three clinical and risk management steps to address imminent suicidality
- Define three elements of meeting standards of care related to the duty to protect
- Identify four dimensions of responding effectively to subpoenas for testimony and records
- Summarize four essential ethical and risk-management steps in clinician-initiated endings of care
- 6 Ethics Continuing Education Credits
- 15% of your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Policy premium (for 2 consecutive years at policy renewal).
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- * This course will not fulfill the requirements of all jurisdictions. It is essential that potential participants review their respective state licensing board requirements before registering for this workshop.
- Target Audience: The Trust’s workshops and webinars are appropriate primarily for psychologists and psychology students, but may also be useful to other related behavioral health practitioners. The Workshop is designed for an intermediate level.
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