Ethical Managing of High-Risk Situations in Clinical Practice: Nightmare Cases

Ethical Managing of High-Risk Situations in Clinical Practice: Nightmare Cases

In this workshop, Deb and participants will examine the high-risk nature of clinical practice in 2019. Deb will present vital information for participants’ ethical responses in this litigious day and age. Also, Deb will facilitate discussion of participants’ case examples, as well as her own work defending clinicians in Louisiana and Colorado who have faced legal and ethical dilemmas in their clinical practices.

Deb will help participants develop ethical, self-protective strategies to avoid the high-risk case turning into the nightmare case! As a seasoned clinician, who has a firm belief in protecting clients and guarding their confidentiality, Deb’s suggestions always are fashioned to protect the therapeutic relationship and the client and therapist from bullying, harassing legal activity.

We will be discussing numerous case examples furnished by participants and culled from Deb’s legal practice in Louisiana and Colorado, which provides much grist for the training mill! Additionally, Deb will teach participants a relatively simple step-by-step approach for ethically responding to subpoenas for records, depositions, and/or trial testifying. Deb will help participants learn how to prepare for litigation events such as depositions and trial testifying.

I always train with case examples and lots of humor, and – most importantly – audience participation with difficult situations, clinically and legally. I try to convey the way to protect yourself professionally – acting ethically AND self-protectively are not in conflict.

Agenda

• I. Demands for Records Challenge the Privilege of Confidentiality
  • A. Client Demands
  • B. Attorney Requests (!) and Subpoenas
• II. High-Risk Clients and Troublesome Attorneys: Case Examples
  • A. Discussion of Participants’ Nightmare Cases
  • B. Discussion of Deb’s Nightmare Complaints
• III. Ethically Responding to Client Demands and Subpoenas for Records
  • A. Dealing with Fragile, Explosive, Personality-Disordered Clients
  • B. Dealing with Subpoenas from Attorneys
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  • For more information or to register:  https://beyond-ethics.com/registration-for-ceus/
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  • LCA has approved this workshop for 3.0 CE clock hours for counselors.  Even though LCA is an NBCC ACEP, this workshop was not reviewed for NBCC CE clock hours  through LCA.