OVERVIEW

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

Accreditation:
CE Credit: 2 Hours

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

This course addresses a variety of ethics and risk management topics in the form of 12 archived articles from The National Psychologist. Topics include: the risks and benefits of alternative treatment; Medicare puts providers in peril; the treatment of children whose parents are in the process of divorcing; keeping client needs uppermost in termination; the pitfalls facing psychologists who become involved in their patients’ custody disputes; security is necessary for test validity; tips for working with the duty to protect; are anger, violence and radical ideologies mental illness or different beliefs?; the role of the psychologist; issues in determining top authorship in publications; managing multiple relationships; and LGBQT issues in psychotherapy. This course is intended for psychotherapists of all specialties.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify the risks and benefits of alternative treatment
• List strategies for working ethically with children whose parents are divorcing
• Differentiate between the needs of the client and the needs of the therapist during termination
• Describe appropriate security measures to be used in preserving test validity
• Name seven tips for working with the duty to protect
• Differentiate between ideologies that constitute different beliefs and those that constitute mental illnesses
• Name strategies for identifying and managing multiple relationships