Professional Issues, Ethics, & Laws

Law & Ethics Update
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. • 6.0 C.E. Hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION This intermediate course examines familiar clinical issues from a risk management perspective. It is loaded with practical suggestions and illustrative case examples to prepare you to examine problematic issues before they arise, and to teach you what to do when facing various clinical situations. This course is designed to satisfy the California BOP requirement that all Psychologists complete a laws and ethics course each licensing cycle, and the BBS’s new rule that all MFTs and LCSWs complete six or more hours of CE in laws and ethics each licensing cycle.
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TOPICS • Professional Issues, Ethics, Laws, Rules, Regulations Update • Licensing Board Trends, Tips & Traps • Confidentiality & Privilege • HIPAA Update & Compliance Tips • Record-Keeping & Storage Guidelines • Boundary Issues & Dual Relationships • Consultation & Supervision • Dangerousness & Duty to Warn • Suicide Risk Management & Prevention • Unique Risks for Group Practices & Agency Clinicians BONUS • Attending this risk management course annually may entitle you to a 5-10% malpractice premium credit. Please refer to your policy or consult your carrier (e.g., APA, APAIT, NPG, TIG) for details. • This risk management course is approved by the American Professional Agency, Inc. and qualifies for a 5% discount on psychology policies.
GOALS At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to: • Understand and implement new laws, rules, and regulations. • Manage the unique risks associated with your specialty. SPEAKER PROFILE
	A. Steven Frankel, Ph.D., J.D., ABPP is both a Psychologist (#PSY 3354) and Attorney at Law. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He serves as an expert case reviewer for the Board of Psychology, has served as an expert for the Board of Behavioral Sciences, and is General Counsel for the California Association of Psychology Providers (CAPP). He is a Clinical Professor of Psychology at USC, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law where he teaches Mental Disorder and the Law. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School where he taught health care law, bioethics, and the regulation of health care practice. His expertise, sense of humor, participant ratings, and ability to bring life to a potentially dry topic such as laws and ethics earned him our Instructor of the Year award in 2000. Dr. Frankel will be the sole presenter in...
	Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., ABPP is a Psychologist (#PSY 3567) and Psychoanalyst in private practice specializing in the training of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, the director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the founding director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of numerous publications on the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including the following texts Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy, Interpreting the Countertransference, Strategic Emotional Involvement, Working the Organizing Experience, and Remembering, Repeating & Working Through Childhood Trauma. His books on professional issues, ethics, and risk management in psychotherapy include Therapists at Risk and Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively. Dr. Hedges will be the sole presenter in... For a home-study course on laws and ethics by Dr. Hedges, simply click here.
	John L. Fleer, Ph.D., J.D. is an Attorney at Law specializing in the representation of of mental health professionals in civil litigation and licensing board matters. He has been an Attorney At Law for more than 22 years. As an attorney, he specializes in representing medical and mental health professionals in both civil (e.g., malpractice cases) and administrative (e.g., licensing board) matters. His clients include individual professionals as well as hospitals. He served on the Task Force that oversaw the Revision of the APA Ethics Code and was hired by APA to consult on the APA ethics code revisions. He has written many articles and made numerous presentations about psychotherapy ethics, record-keeping, patient violence, patient rights, suicide, involuntary treatment, dual relationships, sexual misconduct claims against professionals, and the legal regulation of mental health and medical services. Additionally, he has served as a hospital hearing officer as well as a Judge Pro Tem. In case of an emergency, Dr. Fleer serves as a substitute for Dr. Frankel and Dr. Hedges.