DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/kp6tpc/ethics_and_laws) has announced the addition of the "Ethics and Laws for Mental Health Professionals (San Diego, CA - April 14th & 15th, 2016)" conference to their offering.
Mental health care practitioners work in today's diverse, fast-changing, multidisciplinary health care environment. Nowhere but in mental health is there such diversity of clinicians who provide the same or similar services of counseling and therapy. A potential client has a wide choice of mental health providers from whom to choose.
Yet each individual mental health profession has a unique education, training, and experience requirement for practice. While similarities exist, requirements differ from state to state and even from profession to profession with a single state. What are these requirements and how do they apply?
The state's authority and power over mental health practitioners often presents challenges to these mental health professionals that are not easy to navigate. Differing sources of legal and ethical authority govern each respective health care practitioner in ways that are similar but not the same. Ethics and law are similar, but not the same.
All mental health practitioners must adhere to standards of state law which govern their professional practices, including the very core of the doctor-patient relationship. Codes of ethics and state law may both apply to govern the conduct of this clinician. Even some state laws are referred to as ethical codes.
Complaints as to alleged misconduct or ethical failings are received and investigated by a state agency and leave the mental health practitioner with an uncertain process to handle and to defend the state action against them. With this background, this seminar empowers the full understanding and application of ethics and laws for mental health practitioners.
Learn to identify and understand an ethical framework for a sound mental health practice. An ethical framework is essential to having the right perspective to examine mental health dilemmas. Compare and contrast regulatory laws and codes of ethics to understand their differing applicability. Know the difference between laws and ethics, and even laws that are called ethics.
Describe the inherent risks in mental health practice where the protection of confidences and secrets of the patient are a core part of the doctor-patient relationship. Identifying risks will first help in addressing how to solve them.
Review the most common violations of law against mental health clinicians where state licensure complaints can be ruinous - even when they do not end a professional career. Mere suspension from practice and fines against the professional license will have long-term consequences. This seminar review actual cases before state agencies.
Learn practical tips about how to avoid liability and manage risk in clinical settings. Deal with the unique challenges faced by mental health professionals in complying with ethics and laws.
Avoiding liability and risk allows the mental health care practitioner to escape sanctions and to defend successfully against legal actions which may result in severe practice and career consequences for the mental health practitioner.
These issues will be explored during part of this continuing education in both a single group and also in small groups using various vignettes and hypothetical situations - but ones that come from real life case studies.
This program offers an objective, thorough review of ethics and law for mental health practitioners with an emphasis on the state laws and ethics that govern the practice of various mental health professionals. This continuing education looks at detailed case studies of licensure board actions from actual disciplinary actions. Finally, this program provides the defensive tools to minimize liability and risk with regard to ethics and the law governing mental health practitioners.
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