A Complete Guide to Ethical & Legal Technology Challenges for Mental Health Professionals – MELISSA WESTENDORF (Digital Seminar)

A Complete Guide to Ethical & Legal Technology Challenges for Mental Health Professionals – MELISSA WESTENDORF (Digital Seminar)

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The challenges you face are clear… If you are going to be successful in your practice, you need to adapt to your clients’ growing expectations of your technological competence. The problem is, technology is the most likely way you’ll get caught up in a legal and ethical nightmare!

Technology is changing fast. How can you keep up while protecting your professional liability and personal reputation?

Join technology wellness expert Dr. Melissa Westendorf for this essential and must-see recording. As a psychologist, attorney, and technology wellness expert, Dr. Westendorf is uniquely suited to handle the toughest questions about the legal and ethical challenges in technology today!

You’ll learn:

• Strategies to effectively use social media while navigating the numerous ethical challenges it poses
• How to avoid the serious legal landmines that are associated with email and text
• Best practices for your website and online advertising to attract customers and stay ethical
• How to have an effective distance therapy practice that is legally and ethically compliant
• Top legal mistakes to avoid with electronic record keeping

This is one program that no mental health professional can afford to pass up!

Outline:

The Changing Landscape of Mental Health Today

• Keeping Up with Technology & Professional Liability Concerns
• Client Expectations – Are You Ethically and Legally Up to the Challenge?

Social Media and Online Advertising Ethical Challenges – (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and More!)

• Pros and Cons of Utilizing Social Media and Website In Your Practice
• Confidentiality and Privacy Issues (and How to Avoid Them)
• Boundary Issues – And How to Ethically Safeguard Yourself
• Advertising and Solicitation – Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls
• Creating Your Social Media Policies and Procedures

Email & Texting – The Legal Landmines of Electronic Communication

• Pros and Cons of Emailing and Texting With Clients
• Confidentiality/Inadvertent Disclosures – Legal Concerns
• Privacy Expectations of the Client and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
• Creating Your Texting and Emailing Policies and Procedures

Telehealth – Avoiding Legal & Ethical Pitfalls

• Confidentiality/Privacy Concerns of Video Technology
• Practicing Across State Lines – Legal Issues and Insurance Challenges
• Client Expectations for Distance Therapy
• Creating Your Tele-Health Policies and Procedures

Electronic Records & Going Paperless – Top Mistakes to Avoid

• HIPAA – Electronic Records Legalities
• File Retention, Destruction and Security
• Cloud-Based Data – How, When and Why
• Paperless Office Software

What the Future Holds

• New Technology & What to Expect Next!
• Legal & Ethical Trends

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Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.

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Melissa Westendorf, Ph.D., J.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist and founder of the Technology Wellness Center. As a clinician, she has provided therapy to adults and adolescents in the community and within the correctional setting. Dr. Westendorf’s forensic practice is dedicated to assessing adults and youth in either the criminal justice system or in civil matters. As a technology wellness expert, she is dedicated to assisting parents, children, adolescents, and adults on understanding the complexities of technology use and the impact on our brains, emotions, and interpersonal relationships. Dr. Westendorf’s legal training coupled with her clinical background enables her to work with individuals who are experiencing the legal ramifications of technology use.

As a proactive psychologist and educator, Dr. Westendorf is a keynote speaker at academic institutions, parent organizations, businesses, and community groups, offering preventative tools and resources that educate others on how to manage technology use in a healthy manner. She is the co-author of Unplug! Raising Kids in a Technology Addicted World. She has served on the Committee for Legal Issues for the American Psychological Association and on the Psychology Examining Board for the state of Wisconsin. Dr. Westendorf has been appointed as an expert in high profile legal cases, featuring the psychological ramifications of technology use. Her expertise has been relied upon in a wide variety of articles, podcasts, radio segments, and television programming. She has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio), Wisconsin Public Radio, and ABC’s 20/20. She is a monthly contributor to The Morning Blend.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Melissa Westendorf is a founder of the Technology Wellness Center. She is in private practice. Dr. Westendorf receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Melissa Westendorf is a member of the American Psychological Association.

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