What You Don't Know That You Don't Know:

 Getting Answers To Sticky Legal & Ethical Situations That Catch Clinicians By Surprise

6 Ethics CEs  **  June 23, 2017 

Abenaqui Country Club, Rye Beach, NH

Presented By Leading New Hampshire Experts

Andrea L. Daly, JD & Leisl M. Bryant, Ph.D., ABPP

 This unique & engaging Ethics CE will prepare you for high risk situations. Develop strategies to protect yourself and your clients. Learn about cases specific to New Hampshire and the issues that repeatedly lead to licensing board complaints.

Included in your registration: printed materials, continental breakfast, lunch, mid-morning/mid-afternoon refreshments 

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8:30am - 9:00am: Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 4:30pm: Workshop
     12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch (included)

DESCRIPTION

Despite their best intentions, practitioners can find themselves caught up in surprisingly complex ethical and legal dilemmas.  Oftentimes, clients’ changing personal circumstances, which can include litigation matters, make their way into the clinical work, creating potentially difficult legal and ethical situations.

Having a successful strategy for how to approach legal and ethical situations that arise in your practice can minimize your stress levels and protect both you and your clients from potentially bad outcomes.  To that end, this workshop will focus on:

• How to anticipate and prepare for a range of potentially high-risk situations (e.g., clients’ separation/divorce proceedings, boundary violations in therapy, transitioning roles from individual counselor to couples counselor or vice versa, confidentiality issues when treating minors, problems arising from family members or friends of the identified patient being present in the therapy room, etc.).

• Understanding when it is appropriate to go to Court and clarifying the very different roles of a treating clinician and mental health expert in the courtroom, delineating how those differences (if not understood and addressed) can result in serious risk to the clinician, and highlighting the potential dangers of advocacy in the courtroom outside of the role of expert witness.

• How to respond to a subpoena, explain to your client the risks of having you testify in their court case, and handle mandated reporting situations while maintaining trust and connection with your client.

• The most common issues that lead to board complaints against mental health professionals in New Hampshire (both through the Board of Psychologists and Board of Mental Health Practice), including strategies and tips for how to foresee and minimize these difficulties, as well as the potentially adverse impact of them on the therapeutic relationship. 

• Concrete ways to utilize consultation and documentation to help protect yourself and your practice from adverse outcomes.

This workshop will discuss real-world cases and scenarios and will include both didactic and experiential learning to support participants’ concrete application of concepts to their own day-to-day practice.  Additionally, there will be time for discussion with the presenters and your fellow colleagues.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Recognize potentially high risk ethical and legal situations and implement strategies for preventing or minimizing adverse outcomes.
2. Examine and explain at least five key differences between a treating clinician and mental health expert in court-involved matters and how these differences can increase risk.
3. Identify strategies for clarifying and maintaining your role with both your client and potential others (e.g., spouse, family members, attorneys, school personnel).
4. Prepare effective strategies for responding to legal and ethical dilemmas in a manner that minimizes damage to the therapeutic relationship.
5. Summarize the most common ethical issues that result in Board complaints in NH.
6. Demonstrate concrete ways to utilize consultation and documentation to protect yourself and your practice.

PRESENTERS

Andrea L. Daly, JD

Andrea Daly is a partner at Robinson, Boesch, Sennott & Masse, P.A. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her areas of practice include probate law and mental health law.  In her probate litigation practice, she handles matters involving family conflict over money.  In her mental health work, she has defended dozens of physicians, social workers and psychotherapists before their state licensing boards and understands how the boards operate and what the boards' expectations are for licensees.  In addition, she represents patients who have brought claims against individual practitioners and organizations.  A large part of Andrea’s practice involves training and providing on-going risk management advice to licensees on issues related to ethics, confidentiality, informed consent, reporting laws, records management, and other legal issues related to mental health care and medical care. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1991 and her Juris Doctor degree from Vermont Law School in 1997. 

Leisl M. Bryant, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Bryant is a clinical and board certified forensic psychologist in private practice who specializes in criminal and civil evaluations, violence risk assessments, mental health consultations, court involved family work, and expert testimony.   She has worked in a variety of settings (prisons, court clinics, psychiatric hospitals, outpatient treatment centers, private practice) and provides consultation to both public and private sector organizations regarding ethical practice and high risk cases.  Dr. Bryant is a Fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, and was formerly appointed to the Quality Improvement Committee for the Forensic Services Division of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.  In addition, she has been designated by the Massachusetts Assistant Commissioner for Forensic Mental Health as a Designated Forensic Psychologist and a Qualified Examiner (of sexual offenders).  She served for two years as President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association (NHPA) and has sat on the NHPA Ethics committee for over ten years.  In 2012, Dr. Bryant received the Margaret M. Riggs Award for Distinguished Contribution to psychology in the State of New Hampshire, and in 2013 she was awarded the Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy.   She has lectured chiefly on topics such as ethical complexity in professional practice, risk assessment, and forensic (court-involved) psychological practice.

 

 

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Cancellation policy: Refunds, minus a 35% cancellation fee, will be issued for all cancellations received two weeks prior to the start of the course (on or before June 8, 2017).  No refunds or vouchers will be made thereafter.  No shows are not refunded. 

Inclement weather policy: In the event that NHPA has to postpone or reschedule the training conference, a voucher equivalent to the full price amount of what was paid for the conference, will be issued.  If NHPA has to cancel the event with no postponement or reschedule date, a full refund will be given.  Please be sure that NHPA has your up-to-date contact information (email/text/phone).  Any weather cancellations or postponements will be made no later than three hours prior to an event.  Should you have questions or concerns about whether an event may be changed due to weather, please check the NHPA website or call our office at (603) 415-0451. 

Full attendance: is required to obtain CEs. No partial credit will be given.