Maintaining Ethical and Legal Boundaries While Using Technology (PSYPACT Required Course)
General Information
Title: Maintaining Ethical and Legal Boundaries While Using Technology in Your Mental Health Practice (PSYPACT required Course).
Presenter: Melissa J. Westendorf, J.D./Ph.D
Date: Thursday February 15, 2024. 12 PM-3 PM EST. (9 AM-12 PM CST)
Fee: $95. Earlybird special (until 1/1) $70. Includes full technical support, handouts, 3 CE credits, and 2 months access to recordings.
Venue: Online Webinar
Maintaining Ethical and Legal Boundaries While Using Technology (PSYPACT Required Course)
Description
The challenges you face are clear…If you are going to be successful in your practice, you need to adapt to your clients’ growing expectations of your technological competence. The problem is, technology is the most likely way you’ll get caught up in a legal and ethical nightmare! We will address the ethical and legal requirements for becoming competent in the practice of telemental health, reviewing the ethical guidelines of multiple organizations and discussing the legal implications of not following the rules and requirements of delivering competent telemental health services.
Instructor
Dr. Melissa Westendorf is a clinical and forensic psychologist and founder of the Technology Wellness Center. She is a proactive psychologist and educator dedicated to assisting parents, children, adolescents, and adults navigate and understand the complexities of technology use and the impact of technology use on our brains, emotions, and interpersonal relationships. Dr. Westendorf is a frequent speaker at schools, parent organizations, professional organizations, and business and community groups, offering preventative tools and resources that teach others how to manage their technology use in a healthy manner. Dr. Westendorf routinely presents on the ethical use of technology in mental health care. She draws on her own experiences in practicing telepsychology while teaching social workers, licensed professional counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals about the ethical and legal ramifications of a telemental health practice.
Dr. Westendorf also provides forensic psychological services to courts, lawyers, and families. She has expertise in answering various psycho-legal questions that arise in adult and juvenile, criminal and civil courts, including risk assessments, competence in a variety of contexts, sentencing evaluations, and mental health commitments. Dr. Westendorf has been appointed as an expert in legal criminal cases that feature the psychological ramifications of technology use. Her expertise has been relied upon by a wide variety of articles, podcasts, radio segments, and television programming. She has been featured on NPR, ABC’s 20/20, and several documentaries.
Maintaining Ethical and Legal Boundaries While Using Technology (PSYPACT Required Course)
Objectives
- • Establish and maintain ethical standards and compliance while utilizing social media technology, email, and texting.
- • Consider the legal and ethical challenges posed by communicating with patients via email and text for mental health professionals.
- • Explore the ethical boundary challenges that are arise when using technology.
Application Deadline
February 13, 2024 or until all training spaces are filled, whichever comes first.
Notification of Acceptance
Applicants will be notified, via email, of acceptance when registration is complete, and payment is received.
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Tuition/registration payments are refundable (minus $10) until January 15, 2024. Cancellations after this date are non-refundable. In this situation, we will attempt to find someone to take your slot (based on our waiting list).
Accessibility
Conference is via webinar. For live options, there will be handicap accessibility.
Course level
Level of clinician
Accessibility
If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification
CE Information
Participants must have paid the tuition fee, signed in or logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (for pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% is required.) Failure to sign/log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available electronically after satisfactory course completion. A link will be provided for those who have completed the training.
Three Continuing Education Credits are granted through Nefesh International for the following professions: Psychologists, Social workers, Mental Health Counselors, and LMFTs. It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.
NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0048.
This program is co-sponsored by NEFESH International and Neuhoff Psychological Consulting . NEFESH International is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NEFESH International, maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Satisfactory Completion:
Participants must have paid the tuition fee, signed in or logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (for pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% is required.) Failure to sign/log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available electronically after satisfactory course completion. A link will be provided for those who have completed the training.
References
Langarizadeh, M., Mohsen, S.T., Tavakol, K., et. al (2017). Telemental health care, an effective alternative to conventional mental care: A systematic review. Acta Informatica Medica, 25(4): 240–246. doi:10.5455/aim.2017.25.240-246
Lin, T., Heckman, T. G., & Anderson, T. (2022). The efficacy of synchronous teletherapy versus in-person therapy: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(2), 167–178. doi.org/10.1037/cps0000056
Fernandez. E., Woldgabreal, Y., Day, A., Pham, T., Gleich, B., & Aboujaoude. E. (2021). Live psychotherapy by video versus in-person: A meta-analysis of efficacy and its relationship to types and targets of treatment. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 28(6), 1535-1549. doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2594
Maintaining Ethical and Legal Boundaries While Using Technology (PSYPACT Required Course)
Schedule
| February 15,2024 | 12:00 PM (EST) Welcome and Introduction 12:15–1:00 The Changing Landscape of Mental Health Today 1:00-1:45 Ethical and Legal Compliance related to Technology in Mental Health Practice 1:45-3:00 Maintaining Boundaries Through Social Media Through Email Through Texting Ethical Scenarios – The Slippery Slope |
