Description:

“What goes around….” and it’s focused on recent and emerging developments in law and ethics that will impact clinicians of all disciplines, starting with changes to child abuse reporting obligations, then moving to cover changes for custody evaluators, record-keeping and maintenance, emerging issues and risks regarding telehealth practice, updates on duties to inform and warn when violent behavior may occur, modifications of laws concerning “retirement” of professionals, receiving subpoenas, testifying in court, risk management for supervisors, suicide risk management, and “selected slippery slopes.”

Educational Objectives:

1. Identify at least three areas of practice for which legal/ethical changes have developed in the past 5-10 years.
2. State the most effective strategy for maintaining clinical records of patient/client care.
3. Identify two significant problems for clinicians who wish to provide telehealth services.
4. State two major cautions for clinicians who receive subpoenas for patient/client records.
5. State the differences between three classes of witnesses in courts.
6. Identify two “slippery slopes” of concern to clinician risk management.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*