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Ethics Workshop for
Practicing Psychologists This workshop is SOLD OUT! This ethics workshop will consist of a lecture and discussion of ethical vignettes. The lecture will address ethical decision-making, the relationship between ethics and law with specific attention to Ohio state law, and ways to minimize exposure to legal and ethical liability. Part of the program will include a discussion of the APA Ethics Code, with a focus on the structure of the Code and the relationship between aspirational principles and ethical standards. The lecture will lay the foundation for the second part of the program, which will consist of a series of vignettes for discussion. Case vignettes will demonstrate ethical decision-making in mental health clinical practice, and will offer perspectives on ethical dilemmas involving confidentiality, duty to warn, and multiple relationships from the perspective of the OPA Ethics Committee, Ohio Board of Psychology and APA Ethics Office. Learning Objectives
About the Presenters:
Ronald Ross, PhD, is a psychologist and certified public manager. After an abbreviated career as a professional psychologist, Dr. Ross was named executive director of the State Board of Psychology in 2001. As the Board’s full-time administrator, he provides in-office direction to five staff members who conduct the Board’s day-to-day business relative to examinations, licensing, monitoring of supervised practice, investigations and enforcement. He also serves as the Board’s Entrance Examiner. Dr. Ross holds two positions with the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, as chair of the Board Administrators and Registrars Committee and as a member of the Practicum Training Committee. He lives in Columbus with his wife and two daughters. Dr. Lindsay Childress-Beatty joined the American Psychological Association Ethics Office in June of 2007. She came to the APA Ethics Office after 5 ½ years as APA’s Deputy General Counsel where her duties included advising the ethics office on legal matters and evaluating amicus requests involving psychological issues. She received her JD from the University of Michigan in 1989. After working in the large law firm world for five years, she left private legal practice to obtain her PhD in clinical psychology from Columbia University (Teachers College). She also has an M. Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. As part of her duties as deputy director of the ethics office, she is in charge of the adjudication program. Dr. Childress-Beatty’s areas of interest include ethics and professional impairment, and psychological, ethical and legal issues in reproductive medicine and adoption.
Ethical Concerns and Therapeutic Options for Individuals Dealing With Sexual
Orientation Distress Download and print a registration form Opposing viewpoints have existed as to how to respond therapeutically to a client’s distress with her or his erotic and romantic attractions to the same sex. Historically and presently, some attempt to solve the client’s distress by offering sexual reorientation as an option; others attempt to help the client adopt an outwardly positive lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) identity. Yet, these agendas may not capture the complexity of clients’ conflicts and needs. Furthermore, therapists may experience a conflict of ethical principles with this population as they struggle to simultaneously (a) benefit those who seek their services and take care to do no harm; (b) base their practice on scientific knowledge and promote accuracy and truthfulness in their practice; and (c) respect clients’ cultural, individual and role differences and right to self-determine in accordance with their values and needs. This interactive workshop will discuss these ethical conflicts in detail and provide a framework to clarify and resolve them. The presenter will review the results from his research regarding the experiences of Mormon, same-sex attracted/LGB individuals who underwent therapy for the purpose of changing their sexual orientation. A detailed model will be described that depicts the process that research participants experienced as they moved from feeling different and unaccepted to developing strategies to increase self-acceptance and consolidate a positive self-identity. What helped and what harmed participants’ process will be discussed. Taking into account this research and the current literature base about efficacy, a broad-based treatment approach will be offered for youth, adults, couples and families in conflict. The workshop’s goal is to increase therapists’ self-awareness, knowledge and skill base to provide ethical and affirmative approaches to clients who are in distress with their sexual orientation, social, and religious identities. Learning Objectives
About the Presenter: Lee Beckstead, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Salt Lake City. He is a member of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force to review and update its “Resolution on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation.” Dr. Beckstead provides individual, couples and group counseling and has presented on sexual and gender minority issues at state, national and international conferences. He specializes in relationship issues, such as self-esteem, identity, assertiveness, intimacy, sexuality and gender. Understanding how to resolve sexual, religious and social conflicts has been his primary research and clinical focus.
Ethical Clinical Supervision: Suggestions for Best Practice
Download and print a registration form Supervision is critical as to how we train others in our discipline, and our training models require a lot of supervision time. This means that we will all be involved in receiving and many of us in providing clinical supervision over the course of our careers. What does it mean to “practice within your area of competence” in the domain of clinical supervision? During this workshop, primary ethical elements of supervision will be outlined, including qualifications of supervisors; duties and responsibilities of supervisors; timeliness of supervision and accessibility to the supervisor; documentation of supervision; and supervision risk management guidelines (Falvey, 2002). Participants will learn to set the frame for supervision through use of a supervision contract and the informed consent of their supervisees. The supervision contract is possibly the single most important practice when it comes to the supervisory relationship in general and evaluation in particular. The contract is critical to establishing ground rules and a way of being together in the supervisory relationship. The evaluative task of supervision is always present. In fact, it is considered a defining characteristic of the relationship (Bernard & Goodyear, 2004). Yet many supervisors find evaluation to be the most difficult supervisory task. The afternoon portion of the program will be devoted to a series of strategies that are described in the supervision literature and have proven effective in practice. Best practices in clinical supervision include using a supervision contract; specifying evaluation criteria and timeframes; providing the supervisee with recourse for negative evaluations; identifying sources of data for evaluation; differentiating formal from informal evaluation and providing guidelines for each; making evaluation the norm in the supervisory relationship; and addressing problems early. This material will provide participants with a structure to ensure they are meeting their requirements as a supervisor and their supervisees’ rights to effective and accurate evaluation. Learning Objectives
About the Presenter: Kim Dudley Lassiter earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Ohio University. For the past seven years, she has been director of the Ohio University Psychology and Social Work Clinic in Athens, Ohio. Her areas of professional interest include clinical training, clinical competencies and clinical supervision. She is the co-author, with Dr. Bob Hatcher, of the 2007 publication “Initial Training in Professional Psychology: The Practicum Competencies Outline.” Dr. Lassiter designed and taught an advanced graduate course and practicum in clinical supervision and has been conducting workshops in clinical supervision since the mid-90s.
Legal and Ethical
Risks and Risk Management in Professional Psychological Practice Download and print a registration form For the last 10 years, there has been an increase in the frequency and consequences of lawsuits and complaints to licensing boards and ethics committees against psychologists. As managed care continues to dominate third-party reimbursement, any adverse disciplinary event can seriously damage a psychologist’s career. In addition, with the advent in April 2003 of the complex and often confusing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the complexities and risks of professional practice dramatically increased. In these difficult times, knowledge of legal and ethical standards and an effective risk management strategy have become crucial to psychologists. This workshop will identify situations that pose the greatest risks to practitioners and the legal and ethical standards appropriate in these situations. It will provide practical and effective strategies for identifying and effectively managing those situations in order to minimize the possibility of legal and ethical complaints and maximize practitioners’ ability to effectively defend themselves when complaints are unavoidable. Starting with a description of the factors contributing to the increase in risk, this workshop will provide practitioners with specific information about malpractice suits and licensing board complaints and how to cope with them. The workshop will review how HIPAA altered and impacted professional practice and, specifically, how the changes brought about by this Federal regulation impacted informed consent, record keeping and confidentiality requirements. This workshop will also describe how and when practitioners can utilize the Trust Risk Management Consultation service as part of their own risk management strategies. The workshop includes comprehensive supporting materials. Learning Objectives
About the Presenter: A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Distinguished Member of the National Academy of Practice, Dr. Jeffrey Younggren is a clinical and forensic psychologist who practices in Rolling Hills Estates, California. He also is an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. Dr. Younggren served as a member and chair of the Ethics Committees of the California Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association. He consults to various licensing boards on ethics and standards of care, and he qualifies as an expert in criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings. Recently, Dr. Younggren testified regarding the fallibility of memory secondary to trauma and post traumatic stress disorder.
Legal
and Ethical Risks and Risk Management in Professional Psychological Practice Download and print a registration form For the last 10 years, there has been a major increase in the number of lawsuits, licensing board complaints and ethics committee complaints against clinical psychologists. As managed care continues to dominate third party reimbursement in both the private and public sectors, any adverse disciplinary event can make it difficult, if not impossible to meet credentialing requirements. The changes in the economic system have led to changes in therapeutic approaches and business organizations that, in turn, have increased the complexity of the legal and regulatory environment. In these difficult times, a risk management strategy is an essential element of professional practice. After providing a basic introduction to identifying legal and ethical risks involved in working with high risk patients and situations, this workshop will focus on three specialized areas of practice: working with couples and families, involvement with lawyers and the legal system, and working with potentially suicidal clients. The primary workshop goal is to allow practitioners to identify potential legal and ethical problems in these areas so that risks of lawsuits and disciplinary complaints can be minimized. Dr. Younggren will suggest strategies, which will make it more likely that a psychologist will prevail if she/he is unfortunate enough to be the target of these sometimes unavoidable events. The program will describe how and when practitioners can utilize the APAIT Advocate 800 Risk Management Consultation Service as part of their own risk management strategies. The workshop is primarily directed to psychologists in private practice but is applicable to all sites where health services are provided. Learning Objectives
About the Presenter: A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Distinguished Member of the National Academy of Practice, Dr. Jeffrey Younggren is a clinical and forensic psychologist who practices in Rolling Hills Estates, California. He also is an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. Dr. Younggren served as a member and chair of the Ethics Committees of the California Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association. He consults to various licensing boards on ethics and standards of care, and he qualifies as an expert in criminal, civil and administrative proceedings. Recently, Dr. Younggren testified regarding the fallibility of memory secondary to trauma and post traumatic stress disorder.
Using Cognitive
Processing Therapy to Treat PTSD Download and print a registration form PTSD is a psychological disorder that affects up to 8 percent of the general population and 25 percent of veterans over the course of a lifetime. The disorder can be the result of a variety of traumatic events, including combat, child abuse, rape and natural disasters. In numerous clinical studies, cognitive therapies have been found to be the most efficacious treatments for PTSD and the Department of Veterans Affairs has endorsed cognitive therapy as the treatment of choice for veterans. One form of cognitive therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), was designed specifically to treat PTSD. CPT is a highly structured protocol in which the client learns the skill of recognizing and challenging dysfunctional cognitions, first about the worst traumatic event and then later with regard to the meaning of the events for current beliefs about self and others. Dr. Patricia Resick, the original developer of CPT, and her colleagues, Drs. Candice Monson and Kathleen Chard, have conducted extensive research demonstrating CPT’s efficacy, and are working to further disseminate CPT to clinicians who treat veterans with PTSD. CPT has been found to be effective in four randomized clinical trials at reducing symptoms of PTSD, depression, guilt and anger. It has also been shown to help increase positive cognitions, self-esteem and coping skills. The CPT protocol involves 12 1-hour sessions administered at least weekly and can be conducted as individual or group treatment (1.5 - 2 hour sessions are best for groups). During this training, participants will be given a brief overview of the data supporting CPT and assessments commonly used when seeing PTSD clients. The majority of the presentation will be a session by session introduction to the protocol. Participants will have the opportunity to practice the worksheets during the training and they will be encouraged to discuss how the protocol would work with their own caseload. Videotapes of therapy sessions will be shown demonstrating how each technique is used in session. Additional focus will be on the use of Socratic Questioning in therapy and how to manage difficult problems while performing CPT. The techniques taught in this workshop will be helpful for anyone working with mood disordered patients as the treatment relies heavily on the principles of Beck’s Cognitive Therapy. Learning Objectives
About the Presenter: Kathleen M. Chard, PhD, is the director of the PTSD and anxiety disorders division at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center and an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Chard is a graduate of Indiana University and she was previously employed at the University of Kentucky as an associate professor. She is the author of the “Cognitive Processing Therapy for Sexual Abuse Treatment Manual” and is co-author of the “Cognitive Processing Therapy: Military Version” manual. Dr. Chard has conducted several funded studies on the treatment and etiology of PTSD, and she has over 20 research publications related to identification and efficacy-based treatment of psychological disorders, including PTSD. Dr. Chard has presented nationally and internationally to clinicians in the Veteran’s Administration, the Department of Defense and the public sector on how to use CPT with their client populations.
Judging Amy: An Interactive Workshop on Evaluating Decision-Making Fitness
in the Cognitively Impaired Older Adult Download and print a registration form One of the most stressful events of family life is confronting the question of a parent’s, sibling’s or spouse’s ability to make sound decisions. By accepting a referral to assess decision-making abilities, you can provide essential answers to the person being assessed as well as to those who are close to them. This interactive workshop has been designed to assist all psychologists who are doing or wish to expand their practice by doing competency evaluations. Regardless of your specialty— whether it’s geropsychology, neuropsychology, forensic psychology, clinical psychology, or if you are a general practice clinician who wishes to learn more about this valuable and rapidly growing area of practice—this workshop can provide you added tools to ply your trade in a more competent and enlightened way. Conducting capacity evaluations assists the court in its task and almost always calms the family by filling the abyss of uncertainty with valuable information. Surprisingly, little is generally known in the legal, medical, psychiatric and psychological communities about assessing, evaluating and making judgments regarding the capacities of cognitively impaired older adults. This workshop is designed to provide benchmark guidelines and protocols in assessing the cognitive, emotional and functional capacities of this growing segment of our population. Learning Objectives
About the Presenter: George Kraus, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical and consulting psychologist in private practice with Layh and Associates in Yellow Springs and specializes in the care of older adults, especially those suffering from Alzheimer’s and other dementias. He is on the graduate faculty of the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University where he teaches geriatric clinical psychology, and he is on the clinical staff at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia. Dr. Kraus is board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and has published in a variety of professional journals. He is also on the editorial board of “Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal.” Dr. Kraus’ book on Alzheimer’s titled, “At Wit’s End: Plain Talk on Alzheimer’s for Families and Clinicians,” was released in 2006 by Purdue University Press. His new book, “A View from the Cosmic Mirror: Reflections of the Self in Everyday Life,” (with Gary Gemmill, PhD) is expected to be released by Xlibris in the spring of 2008. To learn more about the workshop and Dr. Kraus’s practice, visit www.GeorgeKrausPhD.com.
Psychology in the Courts: Professional Life in the Fast Lane Download and print a registration form During the past 30 years, forensic psychology has emerged and developed into a mature sub-specialty of psychology. Persons trained in this area provide input to the court systems around a variety of questions and from a variety of perspectives, including those of a researcher, therapist or intervener and assessor. However, providing expert testimony or consultation is not limited to those whose practice area is forensic psychology. Psychologists doing their day-to-day life situations are all vulnerable to being called in and may, at times, be exactly the independent experts that are needed in some specific case. While the focus of this workshop is on the specialty of forensic psychological work, it also will address many areas of specific relevance to practitioners from other specialty areas. The workshop will cover, with case illustrations, the following areas:
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About the Presenters:
Farshid Afsarifard, PhD, has a background in both clinical and forensic work and has served in mental health administration. For many years, he was the CEO of Laurelwood Hospital and associated outpatient clinics. He has developed a specific interest in doing forensic work and recently left administrative employment to work exclusively as a forensic psychologist. He has developed specific expertise in both domestic relations and in assessment of federal defendants under a number of criminal law circumstances. Additionally, both presenters are qualified as specialists in the area of substance abuse and have co-published in forensic applications.
The Legal and Ethical
Practice of Psychology Download and print a registration form Participants will identify and apply pertinent sections of governing documents (e.g., the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Ohio Psychology Laws and Rules Governing Psychologists, related Ohio statutes, Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists, etc.) to a series of vignettes designed to elucidate the ethical and legal practice of psychology. Particular attention is devoted to areas of practice that pose additional liability or yield frequent conduct complaints to the Board of Psychology: duty to protect, involuntary hospitalization, child custody evaluations in divorce proceedings, treatment of minors, request for release of information, duty to report child abuse and neglect, multiple relationships and supervision. In addition, the interplay of ethical practice and cultural competence will be discussed. Learning Objectives
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OPA Continuing Education Workshop Policies and Procedures Registration Deadline On-Site Registration OPA Member Rates Americans with Disabilities Act Disclaimers/Cancellation and Refund Policy
Overnight Accommodations Continuing Education Credit Policies Certificates of Attendance, which will list the title of the completed workshop, will be available to most participants at the conclusion of the workshop, pending attendance. On-site registrants will receive a certificate in the mail. This procedure will allow a streamlined reporting process for participants. CE credits are available from the following sources: The State of Ohio Counselor/Social Worker Board (Social Worker approved provider number is RSX059001; the Counselor approved number is RCX079002). American Psychological Association (The Ohio Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. OPA maintains responsibility for the program.) The Ohio Psychological Association is approved by the OPA Office of Mandatory Continuing Education.
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