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Wyoming Legal & Ethical Issues for Mental Health Clinicians by Susan Lewis

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Description

In this recording, Susan Lewis, psychologist and attorney, will prepare you for litigation issues which can put your client, your license and your practice at risk. You will learn how to structure your practice to limit exposure of risk, as well as discover simple records, notes and actions that will protect you in the event of a complaint. Susan will provide you with the following take-home tools to minimize risk:

Updates on HIPAA and Wyoming laws and regulations
Risk management strategies
How to avoid litigation dilemmas, complaints and malpractice actions
Best practices in the professional relationship, informed consent and office policies

You will learn through problem-solving discussions that are representative of actual ethical decisions you encounter in your clinical practice. The blending of Susan’s experience as a lawyer, work within the court system and extensive clinical experience makes her a hands-on, knowledgeable instructor!

Clinician-Client Relationship

Law vs. ethics
Elements of legal informed consent
Nuts and bolts of office policies
- Records vs. psychotherapy notes
- What to put in a record
Limitations on confidentiality
- Wyoming case law & danger to others
- Wyoming duty to warn potential victims
HIPAA
- The latest updates you need to know

Practical Approach to Risk Management

Elements of consent
Competence & scope of practice
Boundary violations/crossings
Issues with modern technology
- Texting, cell phones, e-mail, video psychotherapy
Perils of supervision

Litigation

Licensing complaints & malpractice lawsuits
- Wyoming specific statues
- Wyoming rules and regulations
- Case law and how to find it

Navigate the Legal System

Roles of attorneys
Confidentiality/privilege
Subpoena & disclosure of confidential information
Depositions, interrogatories, expert testimony

Treatment of Minors

Wyoming age of majority
Consent to treatment
Privilege/confidentiality
Separation & divorce

Case Studies

More information about Medical:

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.

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