Rhode Island Mental Health and The Law-2020 – Robert Landau and Frederic Reamer

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Watch Dr. Reamer and Mr. Landau as they collaborate to deliver an interactive, dynamic presentation on ever-changing mental health laws and protocols. Keeping up-to-date is essential in order to protect your clients and yourself. At this comprehensive one-day seminar you will gain an understanding of risk management, documentation, informed consent, confidentiality, privilege, and ethical issues from both the legal and the social work point of view, to stay on top of issues that arise in everyday clinical situations.

1. Evaluate ethical challenges and risks involving boundary issues from a legal perspective.
2. Determine risk management tips to avoid licensing board complaints and lawsuits.
3. Analyze ethical dilemmas clinicians face surrounding boundary setting with clients in clinical practice.
4. Utilize an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve or prevent ethical dilemmas in your clinical practice.
5. Analyze the limits of confidentiality as it relates to duty to warn law in Rhode Island.
6. Articulate ethical/legal standards of care as it relates to clinical practice.

Attorney-Based Risk Management Strategies – Robert Landau

• Insurance coverage
• Importance of documentation
• Best practices/Risk management: Tips to avoid claims and suits
• Importance of peer, ethics and legal consultation
• Licensing board complaints
• Responding to subpoenas
• Working with attorneys
• Defending lawsuits
• Trends in malpractice claims & ethics complaints
• Informed consent
• Confidentiality

Ethics & Risk Management: The Behavioral Health Perspective – Frederic Reamer

• Trends in malpractice claims & ethics complaints
• Ethical challenges & risks:
  • Confidentiality
  • Informed consent
  • Conflicts of interest
  • High-risk treatment
  • Defamation
  • Impaired professionals
  • Privacy
  • Boundary issues
  • Digital & remote services and relationships
  • Termination of services
  • Documentation
  • Privileged communication
• Key concepts: malpractice, negligence & ethics violations
• Handling difficult ethical judgments/decisions
• Ethics consultation & ethics committees
• Ethical/legal standards of care