Course Description
Providing Ethical Behavioral Health Services to Children & Adolescents – Terry Casey
Confidently Navigate Child-Related Ethical Issues
Dealing with any ethical issue can be challenging. When it involves children or adolescents it can be especially confusing, daunting and anxiety-provoking. Mental health professionals can be left with more questions than answers and without a clear method for navigating these waters.
In this skill-building recording, Dr. Terry Casey will equip you to handle whatever ethical challenge might arise involving children, adolescents, and their families. You will learn how to employ a unique ethical decision making model developed by Dr. Casey when dealing with a variety of scenarios, including mandatory reporting, boundaries, divorce and child custody, and virtual relationships. Ā Using case vignettes, Dr. Casey will guide you through case studies as you evaluate decisions through the lens of applicable ethical codes as well as federal and state laws.
- Identify the five primary perspectives of the Multiple Perspectives Model of ethical decision making in clinical practice
- Discuss special issues associated with working with minor clients
- List the four steps of the Multiple Perspectives Model, and describe how to implements the steps in clinical practice
- Compare and contrast the ethics laws that pertain to all minor clients vs. the ethics laws that apply specifically to older adolescents
- Describe how to interpret and navigate professional codes of ethics and state licensing rules
- Determine the ethical course of action for various scenarios involving minor clients, using the Multiple Perspectives Model
THE MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES DECISION-MAKING MODEL
- Ethical
- Legal
- Clinical/therapeutic
- Institutional Policies
- Therapist’s well-being and interests
SPECIAL ISSUES WHEN WORKING WITH MINORS
- Assent vs. consent
- Confidentiality issues
- Exceptions
- Process for informing minors and parents/guardians
- Divorced/divorcing parents
- Parenting plans
- Access to a minor’s protected health information
- Laws pertaining to older adolescents
STEPS IN APPLYING THE MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES MODEL
- Step #1: Evaluate for relevant issues in each perspective
- Step #2: If the problem has a significant Ā ethical component
- Step #3: Consultation
- Step #4: Decision and documentation
WORKING THE MODEL
- Round #1
- Mandatory reporting: -The phone intake
- Multiple relationships: -Client in a bind
- Boundaries and Perceptions: -The coffee shop
- Round #2
- Parents at odds: -Robert’s separated parents
- Divorced parents: -The dilemma with Julia
- Virtual relationships: -Social media friends
- Round #3
- Competing rights: -Celeste and her father
- Trusting the process: -Amanda and Stephanie
- Competency & supervision: -The Play Therapy request
- Supplemental (time permitting)
- Boundaries revisited: -Dawn’s caramel macchiato
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