Volume 1: Confidentiality, Privilege, Duty to Warn, Child/Elder ABuse, HIPAA, and Telehealth

The four lively dramatization vignettes of a judge, her law-clerk and a journalist help clarify how court rulings became laws and how they impact many of the clinical, ethical, legal and moral concerns you may encounter in your practice. Additional commentary by clinical and legal expert Stephen Feldman and conversations between Feldman and Psychotherapy.net founder Victor Yalom will further your legal and ethical insights, and strengthen your decision-making, helping you minimize the likelihood of board complaints and malpractice litigation.

Volume 2: Ethical Issues

Volume 2 of this series addresses ethics, and the particular concern of being investigated by one’s licensing board for an alleged violation. Specifically, vignettes and in-depth commentaries cover such murky matters as: bartering, boundaries, dual relationships, touch, self-disclosure, gifts, breaches in confidentiality, termination and referral, electronic records, standard of care, HIPAA, client debt, and client suicide, as well as the impact of email, social media, and other technologies on ethical issues in metal-health.

Stephen Feldman, JD, PhD, is an attorney and psychologist who has practiced and taught both law and psychology from Harvard in the east to Seattle University in the west. He holds a law degree from Harvard and a psychology degree from the University of Nebraska. He has lectured extensively on the law and ethics of mental health practice at conferences and in academic settings and is in private practice consulting with counseling services and individual practitioners on legal and ethical problems. He was named the “Distinguished Psychologist” for 2006 by the Washington State Psychological Association.

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• Describe the differences between confidentiality and privilege
• Recite mandated, permitted, and authorized breaches of confidentiality
• Discuss situations in which mental health providers have a duty to war
• Discuss the adverse impact of dual relationships and boundary crossings in your practice
• Discuss your client’s role in the therapeutic relationship
• Describe the different purposes and benefits of therapeutic recordkeeping