Ethics & Risk Management: Expert Tips 8 is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE) course that addresses a wide variety of ethics and risk management topics, written by experts in the field. Topics include:

Can Confidentiality be Maintained in Group Therapy? - Discusses ethical issues involved in conducting group psychotherapy.

A Short Course on Encryption and Cloud Storage - Provides answers to common questions about encryption, cloud storage, confidentiality, and HIPAA.

Retiring Ethically - Reviews the professional aspects of preparing for retirement and the various tasks and challenges involved.

Coping with Disruptions in Practice Due to Death or Disability - Shares two stories of a practice lost to sudden death, and the steps you can take to prepare for unexpected disruptions.

Informed Consent: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities - Provides an overview of the ethical obligations related to informed consent and outlines three ethical challenges.

Ethical Practice and the Challenge of Vicarious Trauma - Examines how vicarious exposure to traumatic material can dramatically impact clinicians both personally and professionally.

Competence for Execution: the Ethical Binds - Summarizes the complex issues involved in determining if a person is competent for execution.

Sorting through Professional Liability Insurance for Needed Coverage - Offers guidance and considerations for choosing between Occurrence Form Coverage and Claims Made Coverage.

Closing a Practice: Practical, Ethical and Clinical Dimensions - Reviews the tasks and challenges involved in terminating a psychotherapy practice.

Is it Ethics or Law? - Discusses the similarities and differences between ethics and law, and what to do when they conflict.

21st Century Changes Ethics for Private Practice - Shares personal experiences dealing with security breaches and offers guidelines for using technology in your own practice.

Ethical Considerations for Clinical Supervisors - Examines the impact of supervision on supervisees and their clients, including competence, clinical oversight, and informed consent. 

Correcting vs. Altering Records - Discusses the importance of keeping good treatment records and offers guidance for what to do (and not to do) when needing to make a correction to your records.

Ethical Considerations for Media Presentations - Offers considerations to keep in mind when using the media for professional purposes (the article focuses on radio and television, but can also be applied to the internet).

‘Ghosting’ May Create Ethics Issue - Discusses the passive-aggressive strategy of "ghosting" and offers guidance for what to do when it happens to you, the therapist.

Reducing Risk in Treating Divorcing Families - Provides an overview of several risk management practices for therapists who work with divorced or divorcing families, particularly the children of divorcing families.

Who Let that Doggie on the Airplane? - Examines the growing trend of Emotional Support Animals (ESA) and what to do when you are asked to provide an ESA support letter.

Informed Consent: Records and Fees - Highlights areas of the treatment relationship and issues related to informed consent in the areas of providing records when requested and in establishing fees. 

Cloud-Based File-Sharing Can be HIPAA Secure - Shares several options for storing and sharing information securely through the cloud, so therapists no longer have to rely on the burdensome methods of faxing or sending patient documents via proprietary networks.

Social Media and Ethics - Offers guidance to help clinicians engage in meaningful self-reflection prior to engaging in social media for the purpose of preventing ethical breaches.

Therapists Must Keep Pace as Technology Changes Practice - Discusses the change in the method of creating and maintaining patient files, evidenced by the increased use of electronic records, and the areas of concern involved.

Ethical Ways to Counteract Negative Reviews Online - Explains how to manage your online reputation, including what you can ethically do if you receive a negative review - real or not.

The Wounded Psychologist: Adverse Effects from a Licensing Complaint - Explains why licensing boards were created, how licensing board complaints are dealt with, and the negative effects of complaints on clinicians.

Disclosures for Forensic Evaluations - Discusses the requirements for disclosure in forensic evaluations.

Reimbursement Diagnoses may be Co-Morbid - Reviews the ethical, legal and professional challenges of balancing concern for diagnostic work with insurance reimbursement issues.

Giving Professional Commentary on Public Figures - Offers advice on what you can or shouldn't say when asked to comment on public figures.

Managing Risk with Alcohol-Abusing Clients - Provides guidance on developing a dual-purposed informed consent agreement with working with special populations such as alcoholics or those characterized by high risk (e.g., suicidal or borderline personality disorder) behaviors.

Direct Secure Messaging is Best Electronic Option for Mental Health Records - Discusses use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), concerns about the potential unrestricted flow of Protected Health Information (PHI), and how Direct Secure Messaging (DSM) can help.

Closeout Course #30-99 | 2017 | 49 pages | 20 posttest questions