Ethics & Risk Management: Expert Tips I

Ethics & Risk Management: Expert Tips I is organized by Professional Development Resources (PDR), Inc.

Accreditation:
CE Credit: 2 Hours

Course Description:
Ethics & Risk Management: Expert Tips I is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE) course that addresses a variety of ethics and risk management topics.

This course for psychotherapists of all specialties addresses a variety of ethics and risk management topics in the form of 11 archived articles from The National Psychologist. Included are monographs on special handling for high-risk clients, risks of online therapy, identification of high-risk clients, protecting privacy, a HIPAA update, ethics in teaching, therapist/patient sex, the psychological autopsy as a risk management tool, insurance and the ethics of termination, and privacy concerns in group therapy.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify the two types of clients most commonly identified in licensing board complaints and malpractice suits
• List four risks involved in the practice of online therapy
• Name two aspects of HIPAA's privacy rule that have benefits for psychotherapists
• Identify a significant causal factor in the rise of lawsuits over non-sexual boundary violations
• Describe the circumstances under which a psychologist's obligation for a client's well being ends
• List three strategies for preserving privacy in group therapy

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.