Full Course Description
Ethics 2.0: When Clinical Goes Digital
Program Information
Objectives
- Explain how a practical model for ethical decision-making informs the clinical practice setting.
- Articulate the legal and ethical codes that relate to utilizing technology while providing mental health services.
- Establish ethical practices to ensure client safety, maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent when utilizing distance mental health services.
- Consider cultural differences when using technology and articulate how this may inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Establish clear ethical guidelines to address the potential for a dual relationship when interreacting with clients via technology.
Outline
Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory
- How theories of ethical decision-making inform practice
- What’s your ethical theory? (And yes, you do have one)
- Consequentialism, Deontology, and other theories
Understanding Ethical Decision Making
- Models of ethical decision-making
- The pre-critical process of decision-making
- Values, morals, laws, and other “cousins” of ethics
Identify Contemporary Challenges
- Technology
- How the codes written for paper records apply to electronic records
- Digital communication
- Distance therapy
- Professional guidelines and positions papers
- Skype anyone?
- Social media
- Internet
- Website content and structure
- When and if to blog
- Navigating consumer review sites
Informed Consent
- What information should be included?
- How much information is enough?
- Updated content for your Informed Consent Form
- Case examples
- “I know what I signed-but that’s not what I understand”
- “And now my insurance won’t pay”
Clincial Completence
- Boundaries of competence
- Understanding emotional competence
- Addressing cultural competence
- Supervision vs. consultation
- Case examples
- “Re-specializing”
- “When you can’t refer”
Confidentiality
- Online disclosures
- ICD-10, HIPAA, and communicating with third party payers
- Encryption, storage, and the cloud
- Case examples
- “Confidentiality online”
- “Alternate forms of communication”
Multiple Relationships
- What kind of online relationship is really a “relationship”?
- Managing beneficial multiple relationships
- Gifts, bartering, and social contact
- Case examples
- “One of 5,000 friends”
- “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to”
Put it all Together
- Anticipating future ethical challenges
- Using a decision-making model that will work in the future
- Understanding the role of ethics in quality client care
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/24/2018