IC11 Law and Ethics 01 – L&E?s Greatest Hits Alerting You to the Most Frequent Problems for Mental Health Professionals – Steven Frankel

Description:

This workshop reviews the areas of professional functions that have been most associated with regulatory problems for mental health professionals, including sexual and non-sexual boundary violations, “law-psych” interfaces, competence, “moral” offenses, licensing board and malpractice actions. The work-shop covers causes for these problems and ways of avoiding them and/or managing them.

Educational Objectives:

1. List the most frequent causes for discipline of mental health professionals.
2. State the primary vulnerability factors for clinicians.
3. State the primary vulnerability factors for patients.
4. List two types of “moral” offenses.
5. List at least two steps in licensing board action procedures.
6. List at least two steps in the malpractice action procedure.