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Exploring the Essential Features of “Terry Casey – Ethics with Minors for Michigan Mental Health Professionals: How to Navigate the Most Challenging Issues – PESI”
Speaker: Terry Casey, PhD
Duration: 6 Hours 05 Minutes
Format: Audio and Video
Copyright: Apr 09, 2019
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
Those of us who treat minors and their families experience a flood of emotions. There is confusion over changing ethical codes and laws, fear that the actions that we take will lead to long-term developmental damage, and anxiety that at any moment we might unintentionally cross a line that could jeopardize our professional license and put us in legal peril. In this environment, we can find ourselves impaired in our ability to function as professionals and help our clients. We’re left with more questions than answers to the question, “What Should I do”?
Combining a step-by-step guide to an effective decision-making model, the most updated ethical codes and legal statutes, and lessons from 30 years in the trenches as a clinician and ethics professor, Terry Casey, PhD, HSP will give you a solid foundation for knowing exactly what to do in situations with minors and their families. You will have much more confidence about the course of action you take involving mandatory reporting, access to minors’ records, parental rights, boundary issues, touch, and others.
Get the peace of mind that you are ethically serving the needs of your most vulnerable clients.
Speaker
Terry Casey, PhD
Terry Casey, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, HSP health service provider with over 30 years of professional experience, including a 16-year tenure as the director of counseling & psychological services for a non-profit agency with over 30 counselors at over a dozen locations. He is in private practice in Franklin, Tennessee, teaches ethics and professional issues in counseling at Lipscomb University’s graduate program in clinical mental health counseling, and guest lectures at Trevecca Nazarene University’s PhD program in Clinical counseling. Dr. Casey also served for several years as the chair of the ethics committee for the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors’ Association and in an advisory capacity for graduate counseling programs at two universities. He has presented frequently on ethics to organizations such as the American Counseling Association, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, the Nashville Area Association of Christian Counselors, and others.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Terry Casey maintains a private practice and is a faculty member of Lipscomb University. He is a published author and receives royalties. Dr. Casey receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Terry Casey is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Tennessee Psychological Association, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor Association, and others.
Objectives
- Analyze legal and ethical responsibilities when working with minors in clinical practice, per relevant professional codes as well as federal and state laws.
- Distinguish between consent and assent and the implication for providing ethical services to minor clients.
- Outline confidentiality standards for minor clients and when limits to these standards can be applied to the clinical relationship.
- Determine the ethical and legal course of action to take in situations involving conflicting desires of divorced parents of minor clients.
- Explain the laws that govern mandatory reporting and how these impact ethical decision making in clinical practice.
- Evaluate current clinical practice policies to ensure adequate protection involving issues of boundaries and physical touch.
Outline
WHY WORKING WITH MINORS IS DIFFERENT
- Vulnerability and power differentials
- Federal and state laws outlining legal responsibilities
- Issues involved with older adolescents
CONSENT RULES AND ISSUES INVOLVING MINORS
- Consent vs. assent Who can provide consent?
- Parental rights and consent rules
- Special rules for older adolescents
- Informed consent process
WHEN A MINOR IS (AND IS NOT) A CLIENT
- When does an individual become a client?
- Personal representatives
- Ethical vs. legal considerations
CONFIDENTIALITY STANDARDS AND LIMITS WITH MINORS
- Limits of confidentiality
- Communications with minors and parents
- Progressive scenarios technique
- Parental agreements
PARENTAL RIGHTS…AND WRONGS
- Default rights
- Special situations
- Exceptions
CONTROL OF MINORS’ RECORDS
- Health care vs. educational records
- HIPAA vs. FERPA
- Who has access?
- Responding to requests for records
- Clinical records and psychotherapy notes
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF DIVORCED PARENTS
- Informed consent process
- Parenting plans
- Other legal considerations
- Case example
MANDATORY REPORTING: THE “WHAT”, “WHEN” AND “TO WHOM”
- Mandatory reporting laws
- Federal definition of child abuse
- State laws
- Ethical considerations
- Case example
BOUNDARY ISSUES WITH MINORS
- Social media policies
- Multiple relationships
- Power differentials
- Virtual relationships
- Texting and messaging
- Case examples
PHYSICAL TOUCH
- When it is appropriate, and when it is not
- Informed consent
- Organizational policies
- Case example
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Addiction Counselors
- School Counselors
- School Social Workers
- School Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals who work with minors
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