Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals, Volume II

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Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals, Volume II: Dual Relationships, Boundaries, Standards of Care and Termination

A pragmatic, informative and entertaining video offering solutions to the common ethical dilemmas that mental health practitioners face. This video is ideal for classrooms, clinical trainings, and licensed clinicians completing their CE requirement.

Do you know…

Good recordkeeping is what can help you the most if a complaint is brought against you by your licensing board?
Ethical rules vary by licensing board and state when it comes to such vital issues as confidentiality and privilege?
What makes a boundary crossing a boundary violation, and when that violation becomes unethical and exploitive?
The different standards of care as treatment provider and evaluator?

Volume II of this series addresses ethics, and the particular concern of being investigated by one’s licensing board for an alleged violation. Specifically, these four lively discussions between a psychologist, lawyer and journalist cover such murky matters as: bartering, boundaries, touch, self-disclosure, gifts, multiple-member clients such as couples and families, the initiation of treatment, breaches in confidentiality, ending treatment, electronic records, HIPAA, client debt, client suicide and a clinician’s death. Presented by Stephen Feldman, an expert in mental health law, this video lays out simple changes all clinicians can make to protect themselves and their practice. This is an invaluable resource that will dispel doubts and fears, enabling therapists to practice more confidently.

From watching this video, you’ll be able to:

Explain different forms of dual relationships and boundary crossings and the complexities they can bring to your practice.
Define exactly who your client is, what your role is in the therapeutic relationship, and what legal and ethical obligations you have towards your client.
Describe the different purposes, forms and benefits of recordkeeping, and ethical procedures for ending and referring treatment.

About Stephen Feldman, JD, PhD

Stephen Feldman, JD, PhD, is an attorney and psychologist who has practiced and taught both law and psychology from Harvard in the east to Seattle University in the west. He holds a law degree from Harvard and a psychology degree from the University of Nebraska. He has lectured extensively on the law and ethics of mental health practice at conferences and in academic settings. His numerous articles and books include the Washington state volume of the American Psychological Association's series, Law & Mental Health Professionals (co-author). He currently is on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine, and in private practice consulting with counseling services and individual practitioners on legal and ethical problems that arise in the course of practice. He was named the "Distinguished Psychologist" for 2006 by the Washington State Psychological Association.

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