Presented By: Daniel O. Taube, JD, PhD
Hosted by: Arizona Psychological Association

Program 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

consultation, and expanding resources. This 12th workshop in our

Sequence series continues to emphasize applied, integrated, and strategic

methods to help you stay grounded in ethical principles and practices and

to protect yourself from adverse disciplinary and legal actions.

The Trust Risk Management Consultants have culled subject matter

from some 110,000 consultations provided to date to focus this workshop

on problems practitioners often encounter. The overarching theme of

Workshop 12 is on the ethics and risk management of navigating various

types of challenging conversations that arise in professional practice.

Specifically, topics will include: the possibly impaired or unethical

colleague; race and microaggressions; record keeping and the Information

Blocking Rule; mandated child abuse reporting; multiple relationships

and conflicts of interest in collateral versus conjoint services; managing

risks of cross-jurisdictional telepsychology; and the ethics and risk

management of responding to patients/clients who engage in stalking, threatening, or harassing behaviors.

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.

Learning Objectives

• Describe at least five basic principles of ethics and risk management, as applied to several specific clinical situations that frequently arise in professional practice.

• Identify three risk factors and warning signs of distress/ impairment in ourselves and our colleagues, and list three primary interventions for managing professional distress/impairment, and delineate two factors to consider when preparing for a conversation with a potentially impaired colleague and for deciding the appropriateness of a formal or informal ethical resolution.

• Describe two methods for effectively engaging in challenging conversations regarding race and ethnicity with colleagues, supervisors/supervisees, and patients/clients.

• Define the Information Blocking Rule and explain two strategies for ethically managing risk related to this rule.

• Identify three types of immunity provisions that protect psychologists who make mandated child abuse reports; and list three steps psychologists can take to minimize their risk in these situations.

• Apply at least two risk management strategies for decreasing risks when involving collaterals in treatment and/or providing conjoint psychological services.

• List four broad categories of factors to consider when determining whether to provide cross-jurisdictional telepsychological services.

• Discuss four strategies for ethically and safely managing patients/ clients who exhibit stalking, threatening, or harassing behaviors.

CE Credits
6.0 Ethics credits are available for attendance.

Registration
AzPA members must log in to access the member rates. This event is open for free to students but they will not receive CE credits.

Speaker Bios

Daniel O. Taube earned his J.D. from Villanova University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University in 1987, as a member of the Hahnemann/ Villanova Joint Psychology and Law Graduate Program. He is Professor Emeritus at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco at Alliant International University, past Psy.D. Program Director, founder and coordinator of the Forensic Family Child.

His areas of professional focus include ethical and legal issues in professional practice, child protection, and addictions. In addition to his teaching and research interests, he has been in private practice since 1990, has served on the APA Ethics Appeals Panel for over 20 years, and taught graduate and professional level courses on ethical and legal issues in professional practice for over 25 years. Dr. Taube regularly consults with a wide range of practitioners and community agencies regarding standards of practice and ethical concerns.

Eligibility for Insurance Premium Discounts

Workshop completion earns 6 CE credits and eligibility to receive a 15% premium discount on your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Insurance for your next 2 consecutive policy periods. To obtain CE discounts, submit CE certification from an organization approved by APA to offer CE credit (must have been completed within the previous 15 months) with the insurance application. Discounts cannot be combined and are not applicable to Researcher/Academician or Student policies. Group policies become eligible for the CE discount when at least 50% of those insured under the group policy submit CE certification. All applications are individually underwritten and submission of CE certification will not guarantee insurance policy issuance or renewal.

CE Certificates will be issued through The Trust

The Trust is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education credits for psychologists. The Trust maintains responsibility for the program and its content.