Ethical, Legal, and Risk-management Challenges in Behavioral Health: Cutting-Edge Issues

Behavioral health professionals face a wide range of ethical and risk-management challenges that require sound judgment to protect clients, practitioners, and employers. What are the limits of clients' confidentiality rights? How do I manage complex boundary and dual relationship issues? What are common pitfalls in behavioral health documentation? How should I respond to a subpoena? What ethical and risk-management issues are associated with practitioners' increasing use of digital and other technology to deliver services and communicate with clients? Robert Landau, JD and Frederic Reamer...Read more, Ph.D. have teamed up to present this engaging discussion of these and other cutting-edge issues. Come watch this unique interdisciplinary approach as Landau and Reamer summarize major risk areas, share compelling case examples, review key legal and ethical standards, and offer practical advice about ways to protect clients and help prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints. Less...

Learning Objectives

Identify ethical and risk management issues in behavioral health.
Apply ethical, regulatory, and practice standards to protect clients.
Apply ethical, regulatory, and practice standards to help prevent ethics complaints and ethics-related litigation.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Levels

Intermediate

Friday, October 08, 2021

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT

$37.00

EARN 3 CE Credit Hours
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About the speakers

Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Frederic Reamer is professor emeritus in the graduate program, School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. His teaching and research focus on professional ethics, criminal justice, mental health, health care, and public policy. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers in 1996 and has served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers, Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed technology standards for the profession. Dr. Reamer has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics, including in India, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and in various European nations. His books include Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints; Social Work Values and Ethics; Risk Management in Social Work; The Social Work Ethics Casebook; Ethical Standards in Social Work; Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services; Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Behavioral Health; Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services; and The Social Work Ethics Audit, among others. Dr. Reamer has served as an expert witness in many court and licensing board cases throughout the United States.

Robert P. Landau

Attorney, Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Pierce Inc.

Bob was the co-leader of the firm’s Healthcare Group from 2012 through 2016. Bob was selected for inclusion on the 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2012 Rhode Island Super Lawyers list. He is a seasoned litigator who focuses his practice on defending hospitals, physicians, nurses, dentists, social workers, psychologists and other health care providers in malpractice lawsuits and disciplinary proceedings. He has successfully represented clients in the state and federal courts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Bob has had numerous jury trials with a significant number of defense verdicts. In addition to trying cases to juries, Bob handles any appellate issues that arise from his matters. He has appeared regularly before the Rhode Island Supreme Court and has a number of reported decisions. In those instances where a trial is not the best course of action, Bob has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution. His presentations to mediators and arbitrators help clients resolve cases on favorable terms.

In addition to health care matters, Bob represents clients in general insurance defense litigation and has had significant commercial litigation experience.

Agenda

11:00am-12:30pm Lecture

12:30pm-12:45pm Break

12:45pm-1:55pm Lecture

1:555pm -2:15pm Q&A

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours including

3 Ethics Hour

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