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• Law & Ethics of the Clinical Use of Artificial Intelligence

  • When
    05/09/2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Live Synchronous Zoom Event

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  Description:

  While new and emerging technologies can provide clinicians with powerful and effective clinical tools, such technologies also have the potential to create a range of new challenges. In this workshop we will address the specific legal and ethical implications of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning within the practice of psychology. We will identify and discuss the evolving standards found in federal law, state law, and in the professional codes of ethics.  Participants will gain the ability to identify and implement a legally and ethically sound approach evaluating and implementing new AI technologies in clinical practice.

  Objectives:

  After taking part in this training, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the emerging ethical standards relating to clinical use of AI 
  • Apply federal HIPAA standards to the use of AI powered clinical tools
  • Create strategies to effectively evaluate the clinical applicability of new technologies
  • Apply legal and ethical standards regarding the use of AI to clinical practice

  About the Presenter:

  
  

  Eric Ström is an attorney and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, Washington. As an attorney, Eric provides legal counsel, consultation, and guidance to mental health professionals. Eric’s clinical practice is focused on providing counseling services to combat veterans and those in other high-stress professions.  Eric currently serves on the American Mental Health Counselors Association Ethics Committee, and is the ethics advisor for the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association.  Eric has taught a range of courses in counseling and professional ethics at a variety of graduate and undergraduate programs.

  
  

  Eric earned a PhD in Counseling at Oregon State University, graduated cum laude from Wayne State University School of Law in Detroit Michigan, earned a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology from the Northwest School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University Seattle, attended the Hague Academy of International Law in the Hague Netherlands, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Michigan.

  

  WMHCA Cancellation Policy: To receive a refund, less a $15 cancellation fee, cancellations must be made by contacting sara@wmhca.org at least 48 hours prior to workshop date. There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the workshop date. Please make sure you have the link 24 hours prior to the event starting.  

  
  

  This course is approved for 3 CE hours for LMHCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, and all  associate-level licensees in Washington State.

  
  

  Washington Mental Health Association (WMHCA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 2079. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. WMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  
  

  3 NBCC clockhours will be awarded at the conclusion of the course.
  

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• Are We OK? Potential Impacts of Telehealth Structural Changes on Clinician Wellness

  • When
    05/15/2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Live Synchronous Zoom Event

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  Description:

  Though the era of COVID was not the origin of telehealth, licensed mental health providers across the country were forced to shift to this treatment modality in COVID, regardless of preference or personal beliefs around the efficacy of this modality.  As we continue to emerge from the pandemic, we can look back on where we have been, and cast a vision for where we are going as a mental health counseling field.  In reflection, then, what have been the impacts of the structural changes (e.g. transitions to home offices, not sharing physical space with clients, changes in commutes and other lifestyle changes, etc.) on clinician’s reported sense of health and wellbeing?  How does telehealth practice contribute to or detract from clinicians’ self-care?  What are the benefits, and what susceptibilities (potential areas for impairment) increase?

   

  Join us as we share our research team’s engagement around this topic.  We will provide a review of the literature that is pertinent to clinician wellness and to telehealth practice.  We will expose gaps in the literature, especially related to how the structural changes associated with telehealth practice impact clinician wellness.  We will offer themes that have emerged in our interactions with research participants and other licensed mental health providers. We will also walk through the current status of our research project intended to contribute to the extant literature, given the dearth of resources currently available there.  Potential impact(s) and points of consideration will be offered as well.

  Objectives:

  Participants will be able to:

  • Apply working knowledge of the relevant literature on clinician health and wellness, self-care, and telehealth to clinical practice.
  • Foster ongoing self-awareness and telehealth-specific practices of self-care and wellness related activity.
  • Dialogue around study findings and the themes that are emerging from the data.
  • Advocate for and participate in increased consultation and collaboration to develop shared nomenclature and understanding of issues.

  About the Presenters:

  Doug Shirley is associate professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology.  Doug has been teaching and practicing counseling and psychology since 1999.  In and through his private practice, Doug has had the opportunity to walk with any number of helping and healing professionals tending to the fallout that COVID brought to multiple professional realms.  Doug has a passion for supporting the helpers themselves: those whose (early) life training has taught them to put others before themselves.  In his teaching he is also active in guiding the next wave of counseling professionals: those who will usher our field into its future, whatever that might be.

  
  

  Eric Ström is an attorney and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, Washington. As an attorney, Eric provides legal counsel, consultation, and guidance to mental health professionals. Eric’s clinical practice is focused on providing counseling services to combat veterans and those in other high-stress professions.  Eric currently serves on the American Mental Health Counselors Association Ethics Committee, and is the ethics advisor for the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association.  Eric has taught a range of courses in counseling and professional ethics at a variety of graduate and undergraduate programs.

  Eric earned a PhD in Counseling at Oregon State University, graduated cum laude from Wayne State University School of Law in Detroit Michigan, earned a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology from the Northwest School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University Seattle, attended the Hague Academy of International Law in the Hague Netherlands, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Michigan.

  

  

  WMHCA Cancellation Policy: To receive a refund, less a $15 cancellation fee, cancellations must be made by contacting sara@wmhca.org at least 48 hours prior to workshop date. There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the workshop date. Please make sure you have the link 24 hours prior to the event starting.  

  This course is approved for 1.5 CE hours for LMHCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, and all  associate-level licensees in Washington State.

  
  

  

  Washington Mental Health Association (WMHCA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 2079. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. WMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  
  

  1.5 NBCC clock hours will be awarded at the conclusion of the course.
  

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• Law and Ethics: Let Your Disclosure, Documentation, and Record keeping Work for You

  • When
    05/22/2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    Live Synchronous Zoom Event

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  Description:

  Documentation and record keeping are your opportunities to memorialize and explain events as they occur in real time. Documentation can demonstrate your knowledge of best practices, professionalism, and diligent attention to client care.

  Documentation requires skill and understanding of requirements as well as options that maybe available to you. In this interactive three-hour webinar, attendees will learn legal and ethical standards, in addition to other important factors that can aRect how you work with clients. We will discuss ways to optimize your disclosure, documentation, and record keeping so they will work for you rather than against you. We will discuss ways for you to do the work you love and stay safe as you do it!

  This course is intended to meet Law and Ethics CEU requirements.

  Objectives:

  Participants will be able to:
  

  • understand the difference between disclosure and informed consent.

  • identify three functions of the disclosure statement.

  • understand three ways session notes serve both client and provider.

  About the Presenter:

  FRANCES SCHOPICK, JD, MSW, is a Washington licensed attorney with an extensive background in Social Work and Psychology. Prior to becoming an attorney, she was a therapist and later a psychiatric researcher on the faculties of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She also worked in family practice with toddlers, children, teens, and adults in individual, group, and family constellations of all sorts.  

  Currently an attorney with clients throughout the State of Washington, Fran’s legal practice focuses on representing healthcare licensees who are under investigation by the WA State Department of Health (DOH). She also consults to healthcare providers for ethics, best practices, and risk management issues. Her background gives her unique insight to understand complexities of practice, and the need to timely address ruptures that may otherwise escalate. Her goal is to help you do the work you love and stay safe as you do it!  

  Fran completed her education at Barnard College at Columbia University (AB), Hunter College School of Social Work (MSW), both in NYC, and the University of New Hampshire School of Law (JD), in Concord, NH.  

  To learn more about Fran, feel free to visit www.francesschopick.com   

  

  WMHCA Cancellation Policy: To receive a refund, less a $15 cancellation fee, cancellations must be made by contacting sara@wmhca.org at least 48 hours prior to workshop date. There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the workshop date. Please make sure you have the link 24 hours prior to the event starting.  

  
  

  This course is approved for 3 CE hours for LMHCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, and all  associate-level licensees in Washington State.

  
  

  Washington Mental Health Association (WMHCA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 2079. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. WMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
  

  
  

  3 NBCC clock hours will be awarded at the conclusion of the course.
  

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