25 Ways to Protect Your License
Developed by Ofer Zur, Ph.D.
Course content available in transcripts and video.
This course will review current standards of care that all clinicians need to maintain in order to avoid board complaints or civil lawsuits and to keep their licenses. By outlining 25 specific ways in which therapists need to pay close attention to their practice, this course ensures participants are equipped to understand the ethical, legal, and clinical risks impacting them. Topics will also include some of the complex issues related to therapists engaging with clients via texting and social media and some of the main ethical considerations surrounding telehealth.
Educational Objectives
This course will teach the participant to
- Differentiate between ethical, legal, clinical, and risk management aspects of cases
- Describe the three most common complaints of state licensing boards filed against licensed psychotherapists and counselors
- Identify some of the more common ethical challenges for telehealth practices
- List at least three ethical considerations and challenges for mental health professionals surrounding technology and social media
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Standard of Care
- Defining Standard of Care
- Selected myths about Standard of Care
- Protect your license
- What to avoid doing
- Taking proactive steps
- Concerns in Telehealth
- Practicing across States’ Lines
- Consent form
- Clients not suitable for telehealth
- Disinhibition effect
- The myth around civil malpractice lawsuit
- Other issues/topics
LIC102