Ohio Psychological Association OPA Workshops

OPA Workshops

Upcoming OPA Workshops:

Union of Psychology and Spirituality Retreat, Mohican State Park, Feb. 19-20, 2010
Legal and Ethical Risks and Risk Management in Professional Psychological Practice, Sequence II: Risk Management in Specific High Risk Areas, Beachwood, April 9, 2010
Ethical Decision Making and Risk Management in Clinical Practice, Columbus, April 10, 2010
OPA Legislative Day, Columbus, May 11, 2010
Ethical and Legal Aspects of Supervision, Columbus, May 21, 2010
Continuing Education Policies and Procedures

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OPA Legislative Day

When: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Registration Deadline: May 3, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.—4 p.m.
Cost: $40 OPA Member    $25 Student
Your registration includes a continental breakfast, beverages, refreshments and lunch.
CE Credits: 2.0

DESCRIPTION
Advocating for the profession of psychology is especially important because state and federal budget and laws affect our practice, our science and our clients’ ability to access our services. Last year, OPA had several successes on the legislative front, including passage of HB503, the sequence of training bill, addressing psychology licensure; HB125, insurance contracting simplification, which helps practitioners; and HB19, which mandates dating violence prevention education in school. But our work is not done. OPA needs your help in advocating for policies designed to prevent and treat mental health problems and to increase access to services. Join us and learn the ins and outs of advocating for psychology in your district and at the Statehouse.

Legislative Day participants will be able to choose introductory or advanced programming.

Participants will learn:
           • Current status of legislation in the Ohio General Assembly that affects the practice of psychology
           • How the legislative and rule making process works in Ohio and how it influences psychological practice
           • How to effectively educate legislators about the science and practice of psychology

SCHEDULE
9-10 a.m. Plenary Session: The State of the State ---The psychology of politics and the politics of psychology

10:15 a.m. — Noon New Attendees Group
    • Legislative case study: Step-by-step introduction to the state legislative and rule making processes (Everything                    you should have been taught in civics class but never would have believed way back then)
    • Issues Briefing: Key legislation to discuss with your legislator
    • Experiential Learning: Role-playing demonstration of how to talk with a legislator, followed by practice for your visit

10:15 a.m .— Noon Advanced Advocates
    • OPA’s Access to Treatment Demonstration Project
    • OPA’s legislative priorities
    • Implications of the November 2010 election

Noon Lunch

1—4 p.m. Meetings with your representative, senator and staff members set up by OPA
    • Observe Legislative committee meetings (if scheduled)
    • Tour of the Statehouse (if time)

3:30 p.m. (or following your visits) Debriefing

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Legal and Ethical Risks and Risk Management in Professional Psychological Practice, Sequence II: Risk Management in Specific High Risk Areas

Presented by: Jeffrey Younggren, Ph.D.
When: Friday, April 9, 2010
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 2, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.—4 p.m.
Cost: $125 OPA Member    $155 Non-Member    $75 Student
Your registration includes a continental breakfast, beverages, lunch and afternoon refreshment break.
CE Credits: 6.0 in Ethics
Where: Fairfield Inn and Suites, 3750 Orange Place, Beachwood (Cleveland)
Hotel Accommodations: Call 1-800-MARRIOTT to receive the group rate of $99 plus taxes. You must identify yourself as a member of the Ohio Psychological Association Standalone Workshop group.

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 systemhave 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 Trust 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.

OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:
• Learn basic strategies for identifying high risk situations and managing professional practice risks
• Learn how to manage interactions with lawyers and the legal system, including responding to subpoenas and
other information requests, providing testimony at depositions and in court, and using strategies for
interacting with attorneys
• Learn about managing potential conflicts in conjoint treatment with couples and families, with particular
emphasis on the special risks associated with divorce
• Learn essential risk management strategies for identifying and managing outpatient suicide risk
• Learn ethical and legal standards governing these areas of practice

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 a 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 before the United Nations Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.

Bonus!
Psychologists insured through the Trust-sponsored Professional Liability Program receive a 15% premium discount on professional liability insurance for the next two policy years for attending the workshop. (For group practices, 50% or more of the group must attend for the discount to apply. Discount not applicable for student
and researcher/academician insureds).

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Ethical Decision Making and Risk Management in Clinical Practice

Presented by: Jeffrey Younngren, Ph.D.
When: Saturday, April 10, 2010
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 2, 2010
Where: Concourse Hotel, 4300 International Gateway, Columbus
Time: 8:30 a.m.—4 p.m.
Cost: $125 OPA Member    $155 Non-Member    $75 Student
Your registration includes a continental breakfast, beverages, lunch and afternoon refreshment break.
CE Credits: 6.0 in Ethics
Hotel Accommodations: Call the Concourse at (614) 237-2515 and mention the Ohio Psychological Association to receive the special rate of $99 plus taxes.

Today, psychologists practice with increased ethical and legal attention in order to reduce the likelihood that disciplinary complaints or malpractice suits may be filed against them. Psychologists must learn new strategies on how to deal with these challenges should they occur. Many “rule based” risk management strategies have been developed to give psychologists concrete guidance for dealing with potential disciplinary actions and civil suits. Consequently, some psychologists have lost sight of the fundamentals of ethical decision making and clamor for “cookbook approaches” to risk management. In their desire to solve any problem quickly, they no longer engage in an active decision-making process when faced with difficult issues.

This workshop focuses on the fundamental “how tos” of ethical decision making when confronted by ethical dilemmas. Attendees will become familiar with the fundamental tenants of health care ethics and how they apply to the practice of psychology. They will also review the basic legal strategies and ethical principles that apply to psychological practice. Finally, all participants will have the opportunity to apply the principles to specific ethical dilemmas in small group discussions. These discussions will focus on resolving specific case examples in a fashion consistent with the fundamentals of good clinical practice.

OBJECTIVES
Participants will:
• Become familiar with the fundamentals of ethical philosophy that are the foundation of all health care ethics
   codes
• Understand how these fundamentals drive the development of ethics codes and professional standards
• Recognize where these fundamentals are specifically expressed in the law and in the 2002APAEthics Code
• Learn the primary provisions of the 2002 APA Ethics Code
• Become aware of how the law impacts ethics codes and the relationship of ethics to law
• Gain expertise in how to use the ethical fundamentals in decision-making
• Interact with other colleagues on specific ethical dilemmas, arriving at ethically based decisions on
   how to deal with difficult cases

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 a 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 before the United Nations Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.

Bonus!
Psychologists insured through the Trust-sponsored Professional Liability Program receive a 15% premium discount on professional liability insurance for the next two policy years for attending the workshop. (For group practices, 50% or more of the group must attend for the discount to apply. Discount not applicable for student and researcher/academician insureds).

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Ethical and Legal Aspects of Supervision

Presented by: Stephen Behnke, PhD, Lindsay Childress Beatty, PhD, Ron Ross, PhD
When: Friday, May 21, 2010
Where: Holiday Inn Worthington, 7007 N. High St., Worthington (Columbus)
Time: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
CE Credits: 6.0 CE Credits in Ethics
Cost: $125 OPA Member $155 Non Member $75 Student
Your registration includes a continental breakfast, beverages, lunch and afternoon refreshment break.
Registration Deadline: May 14, 2010
Hotel Accommodations: Call the Holiday Inn at 614-436-0700 for a special rate of $89 plus taxes.

DESCRIPTION:
This ethics workshop for supervising psychologists and psychological supervisees will begin with a series of presentations, to be followed by discussions of ethical vignettes focused on dilemmas in supervision and the supervisory relationship. The presentations will address ethical decision-making in supervision, the relationship between ethics and law with specific attention to Ohio’s supervision rules, and ways to minimize ethical and regulatory errors in the conduct of psychological work supervision and psychological training supervision. Presentations 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, and a focus on the State Board’s supervision rules. The presentations 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 and unethical decision-making in the provision of supervision, and will offer perspectives on ethical dilemmas from the perspectives of the OPA Ethics Committee, the APA Ethics Office and the State Board of Psychology’s Executive Director.

OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:
1. Identify the purposes of supervision in the Ohio laws and rules;
2. Understand the Ohio rules most often violated in the conduct of supervision;
3. Identify a process for structuring an ethical and regulation-compliant supervisory relationship;
4. Find concrete ways to minimize errors in the supervisory process;
5. Understand the relationship between the APA Ethics Code and Ohio state law;
6. Use the APA Ethics Code and Ohio psychology regulations as tools to facilitate ethical decision-making as supervisors and
supervisees; and,
7. Understand how ethics committees and a board of psychology analyze ethical dilemmas in the supervisory relationship.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Stephen H. Behnke received his legal training at Yale Law School and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. In 1996, Dr. Behnke was made chief psychologist of the Day Hospital Unit at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He held this position until 1998, when he was named a faculty fellow in Harvard University’s program in ethics and the professions. Dr. Behnke then directed a program in research integrity in the division of medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. In November of 2000, Dr. Behnke assumed the position of director of ethics at the American Psychological Association. He holds an appointment in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Behnke’s research interests focus on issues at the convergence of law, ethics, and psychology. He co-leads an ethics discussion group at the meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

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.

Dr. Ronald R. Ross is a psychologist and certified public manager. He earned his masters and PhD in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University. After seven years of practice as a professional psychologist, Dr. Ross was named executive director of the Ohio Board of Psychology in 2001. As the Board’s full-time administrator, he provides in-office direction to four staff members who conduct the Board’s day-to-day business relative to examinations, licensing, monitoring of supervised practice, investigations and enforcement and public relations. He also serves as the Board’s Entrance Examiner. Dr. Ross holds 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 and the Model Act and Regulations Committee. Dr. Ross received the Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award at the 2009 APA Convention.