Attend an in-person Sequence live workshop, earn 6 CE credits, and take 15% off your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability policy premium (for 2 consecutive renewals at your next policy renewal).
Live Workshops
Ethics and Risk Management: Legal and Ethical Risks and Risk Management in Professional Practice
Experts agree that regardless of what happens with healthcare reform legislation at the state and national level, the industrialization of the healthcare system is going to continue. New practice models will require psychologists to confront an increasingly complex legal environment. The development of an effective risk management strategy will be essential for career and economic survival.
These are a few of the developments that have increased the liability and disciplinary exposure that psychologists now face. At the same time, many sources report an increase in the number of complaints to licensing boards and professional ethics committees, where even a minor disciplinary sanction can seriously damage or even destroy a career. It is not uncommon for managed care to reject practitioners who have been sanctioned by any disciplinary body or have lost or agreed to non-nuisance settlements in a malpractice case.
Workshops are designed to help you:
- Recognize the major elements of disciplinary complaints and malpractice suits;
- Identify situations that present the greatest risk to practitioners, both now and in the future;
- Implement a system of specific procedural strategies that will reduce the risk of malpractice actions and disciplinary complaints;
- Recognize essential information about laws governing therapeutic confidentiality and its exceptions;
- Implement an effective procedure of providing “informed consent” to clients, including a sample psychologist/patient contract; and,
- Determine how and when to consult with others to reduce the risk of malpractice.
Upcoming Live Workshops
Sequence XV: Risky Business: The Ethics and Risk Management of High-Risk Circumstances in Clinical Practice
Sponsored by: Minnesota Psychological Association
Presenter: Daniel O. Taube, J.D., Ph.D.
For information on this seminar, call the Minnesota Psychological Association at 651.203.7249. | www.mnpsych.org
Contact: Amber Schletty [email protected]
Learning Objectives
- Workshop Description: For over two decades, The Trust has worked to educate and support psychologists in improving their ethics and risk management skills and strategies by providing live workshops, webinars, risk management consultations, and expanding resources. This 15th Workshop in our Sequence series continues to emphasize applied, integrated, and strategic methods to help you stay grounded in ethical principles and practices, thereby protecting you from adverse disciplinary and legal actions. Psychologists routinely encounter complex, high-stakes situations that require sound clinical judgment, ethical decision-making, and proactive risk management. This advanced workshop provides a deep dive into five of the most legally and ethically challenging areas of practice: compassionate and competent treatment of suicidal patients while balancing clinical and liability concerns, navigating the complexities of duty to protect obligations, working effectively with high-conflict families, managing subpoenas and courtroom testimony, and ensuring
- Learning Objectives:
- Describe five principles that can assist in improving ethical, clinical, and risk management judgments and decision-making.
- List three erroneous myths regarding patients/clients who become suicidal
- Name three clinical and risk management steps to address imminent suicidality
- Define three elements of meeting standards of care related to the duty to protect
- Identify four dimensions of responding effectively to subpoenas for testimony and records
- Summarize four essential ethical and risk-management steps in clinician-initiated endings of care
- 6 Ethics Continuing Education Credits
- 15% of your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Policy premium (for 2 consecutive years at policy renewal).
- www.trustinsurance.com
- * This course will not fulfill the requirements of all jurisdictions. It is essential that potential participants review their respective state licensing board requirements before registering for this workshop.
- Target Audience: The Trust’s workshops and webinars are appropriate primarily for psychologists and psychology students, but may also be useful to other related behavioral health practitioners. The Workshop is designed for an intermediate level.
Sequence XV: Risky Business: The Ethics and Risk Management of High-Risk Circumstances in Clinical Practice
Sponsored by: California Psychological Association
Presenter: Daniel O. Taube, J.D., Ph.D.
For information on attending this workshop, call the California Psychological Association at 916.286.7979 | www.cpapsych.org
Contact: Sabrina Longero [email protected]
Learning Objectives
- Workshop Description: For over two decades, The Trust has worked to educate and support psychologists in improving their ethics and risk management skills and strategies by providing live workshops, webinars, risk management consultations, and expanding resources. This 15th Workshop in our Sequence series continues to emphasize applied, integrated, and strategic methods to help you stay grounded in ethical principles and practices, thereby protecting you from adverse disciplinary and legal actions. Psychologists routinely encounter complex, high-stakes situations that require sound clinical judgment, ethical decision-making, and proactive risk management. This advanced workshop provides a deep dive into five of the most legally and ethically challenging areas of practice: compassionate and competent treatment of suicidal patients while balancing clinical and liability concerns, navigating the complexities of duty to protect obligations, working effectively with high-conflict families, managing subpoenas and courtroom testimony, and ensuring
- Learning Objectives:
- Describe five principles that can assist in improving ethical, clinical, and risk management judgments and decision-making.
- List three erroneous myths regarding patients/clients who become suicidal
- Name three clinical and risk management steps to address imminent suicidality
- Define three elements of meeting standards of care related to the duty to protect
- Identify four dimensions of responding effectively to subpoenas for testimony and records
- Summarize four essential ethical and risk-management steps in clinician-initiated endings of care
- 6 Ethics Continuing Education Credits
- 15% of your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Policy premium (for 2 consecutive years at policy renewal).
- www.trustinsurance.com
- * This course will not fulfill the requirements of all jurisdictions. It is essential that potential participants review their respective state licensing board requirements before registering for this workshop.
- Target Audience: The Trust’s workshops and webinars are appropriate primarily for psychologists and psychology students, but may also be useful to other related behavioral health practitioners. The Workshop is designed for an intermediate level.
On-Demand Workshops
The Trust currently offers an extensive library of on-demand webinars from its live Risk Management Workshop Series, which includes six unique sequences. Each sequence features core learning objectives along with specific issues and objectives related to that topic area.
These workshops, both live and on-demand, are often produced in collaboration with state psychological associations, licensing boards, and other related organizations, ensuring relevant, high-quality education for mental health professionals.
Workshop Instructors
Daniel O. Taube, J.D., Ph.D., Julie Jacobs, Psy.D., J.D., Leisl Bryant, Ph.D., ABPP, Joe Scroppo, Ph.D., J.D., and Marc A. Martinez, Ph.D., ABPP, draw upon their extensive experience in law and clinical practice as well as consultations to psychologists in all aspects of professional practice to develop these nationally acclaimed risk management workshops, specifically designed for psychologists. In addition to reducing the risk of a successful malpractice action, these workshops will show practitioners how to cope with potential complaints to licensing boards and ethics committees, as well as how to respond to the increasing accountability requirements mandated by third party reimbursement sources.
The Trust currently provides risk management workshops in eight sequences, each with core learning objectives as well as more specific issues and objectives related to the particular sequence. The workshops are often produced in conjunction with state psychological associations, state licensing boards, and other related organizations.