Telehealth Community Chat #21 (10/2/2023)
- Identify 2 challenges therapists face with clinical videoconferencing tools.
- Discuss key considerations in documenting the rationale for telehealth use.
- Identify 3 important features of HIPAA compliance in your telehealth documentation.
Ethics and Professional Boundaries in Mental Health Practice (10/16/2023)
This two-hour webinar, designed for experienced mental health practitioners, will trace the evolution of professional boundaries in mental health practice with special attention to the contemporary practice of psychotherapy and complex ethical challenges introduced by technological advancements and current social trends. An exploration of current views about what constitutes appropriate professional boundaries will address challenges to traditional values and conceptions. Participants will participate in the discussion via interactive polling.
- Analyze multiple role and boundary issues in mental health practice in cultural and historical context.
- Apply current ethical and professional guidelines and standards to complex case situations.
- Plan strategies to anticipate and avoid or resolve boundary problems in the best interests of their patients.
- Apply case material to plan optimal practice strategies in a world where they increasingly face a loss of traditional boundary control.
Risk Management Roundtable #23 (11/30/2023)
- Apply current APA Ethical Principles and Standards to real-life scenarios.
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We Hold These Truths #12: Child & Adolescent Gender Affirmative Care in Motion: What We Know and What We're Learning (12/6/2023)
Part 1 - The Gender Affirmative Model and Concepts The perspective will be through the lens of development - child and adolescent, along with the principles of the interdisciplinary gender affirmative model and its relationship to family systems, social and medical gender transitions, and cultural context.
Part 2 - Clinical Practice through a Gender Affirmative Lens Focus will be on the general guidelines for interdisciplinary care, research informing the care, clinical challenges in working with children, clinical challenges in working with children and adolescents, the sociopolitical climate in which we are applying the model. This section will present a clinical case for an interdisciplinary gender affirmative perspective discussion.
- Identify the key features of the gender affirmative model.
- Refer to evidence-based research related to pediatric gender care.
- Describe the interdisciplinary collaboration between mental health and medical providers in delivering gender affirmative care.
- List ways they can apply the gender affirmative model to their own practice.