The AI-Informed Clinician: Ethics, Bias, and Staying Current in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION: The final webinar turns to the questions of ethics, business strategy, and our own experience. AI raises ethical challenges that our professional guidelines have not yet caught up with, including confidentiality, documentation, liability, informed consent, and the value and limits of peer guidance when the ground is shifting this quickly. We will examine concrete options for becoming more competitive, including integrating VR protocols, deepening our human presence in the therapy room, offering a hybrid therapy + AI model of care, reconsidering fees and availability, and re-skilling toward the areas where AI consistently falls short: severe mental illness, couples therapy, trauma, family systems, and forensics.
The webinar closes with a discussion of the personal reactions most of us are having to our rapidly changing professional landscape and world. Together we will consider countertransference with AI-involved clients, the challenge of sitting with an uncertain professional future, AI’s reach into our personal and family lives, and self-care as a clinical imperative rather than a luxury. We will close by exploring the meaning and opportunity this moment holds for therapists willing to meet it.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate
Educational Objectives
This course will teach the participant to
- Describe three emerging ethical challenges AI raises for clinical practice.
- List three practice strategies for increasing competitiveness in a market that includes on-demand AI support.
- Identify three specialty areas where human clinicians are likely to retain a competitive advantage despite advances in AI chatbots.
Syllabus
- Emerging ethical challenges that existing professional guidelines don't yet address:
- Confidentiality and data privacy when AI enters the treatment room
- Documentation and liability considerations
- Informed consent around AI tools
- The value and limits of peer guidance in fast-moving territory
- Ways to become more competitive in a world of on-demand AI support:
- Identifying and leaning into your distinctly human strengths
- Integrating VR protocols
- Being more fully human in our therapy rooms
- Fee adjustments and increased availability
- Re-skilling toward where AI falls short: severe mental illness, couples therapy, trauma, family systems, forensics
- Offering a hybrid therapy model integrating AI between sessions
- The emotional reality of this moment for therapists:
- Countertransference with AI-involved clients
- Sitting with uncertain professional futures
- AI's reach into our personal and family lives
- Self-care as a clinical imperative
- Peer support, consultation, and community as we adapt together
- Closing discussion: finding meaning and opportunity in a changing profession