The Trust Ethics Seminar – Ethics, Risk Management and Vulnerabilities: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Sequence XI: Ethics, Risk Management and Vulnerabilities: Yours, Mine, and Ours

March 25, 2022

Registration opens at 8:45 a.m. Workshop is from 9:00 a.m. – 4:20 p.m.

(There will be a 40 minute break for lunch and two 10 minute breaks in the am and pm)

$80 for CPA Members

$160 for Non-CPA Members

Zoom

• 6 Ethics Continuing Education Credits
• 15% off your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Policy premium (for 2 consecutive years at policy renewal)

Presenter: Leisl M. Bryant, Ph.D, ABPP

Dr. Bryant is a licensed New Hampshire and Massachusetts-based clinical and forensic psychologist, with board certification in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She received her B.A. from the University of West Florida, her M.A. and Ph.D.

in clinical psychology from Duquesne University, and completed a forensic postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Law and Psychiatry Program.

Working in both criminal and civil arenas, Dr. Bryant has maintained a private practice in clinical and forensic psychology for nearly two decades and has provided psychological services in a variety of forensic and therapeutic settings.

Dr. Bryant is a Fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, and formerly served as President and Executive Director of the New Hampshire Psychological Association (NHPA).

She also served on the NHPA Ethics Committee for over ten years, received
the Margaret M. Riggs Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the State of New Hampshire, and was awarded the Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy. Dr. Bryant brings extensive experience in forensic, clinical, and ethical consultation, academic instruction, and professional presentation to her role on the risk management team.

Workshop Description

For close to 30 years, The Trust has been providing continuing education workshops and individual consultations with a focus on improving psychologists’ risk management skills and strategies. These workshops have evolved from basic concepts and strategies, to a more applied, integrated, and strategic approach to help you protect yourself from adverse disciplinary and legal actions and to support competent practice.

For this newest workshop, The Trust Risk Management Consultants have continued to review data from nearly 90,000 consultations provided to date, along with relevant research, to determine the problems practitioners often confront, and potential strategies for addressing them. The topics in this new workshop will include an updated review of decision science and its implications for bias and vulnerability in clinical, ethical and risk management decision making, strategies for reducing the impact of these vulnerabilities, issues arising in remote services (during and beyond the pandemic), addressing boundaries in advocacy by professionals on behalf of their clients/patients, and the risk- management implications of self-care (or its absence) for psychologists.

* This course will not fulfill requirements of all jurisdictions. It is important that potential participants review their respective state licensing board requirements prior to registering for this workshop. 

Learning Objectives

• Describe three general challenges to unbiased decision-making
• Identify three vulnerabilities that can affect clinician decision- making, in particular
• List four strategies to address decision-making bias and improve ethical and risk management choices
• Summarize three risk-related aspects to remote service provision
• Differentiate general areas in which professional advocacy is and is not appropriate
• Identify two issues when psychotherapy patients make quasi- forensic requests
• Evaluate three methods of engaging in self-care to support better practice and risk-management

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Those who attend the workshop and complete the CE evaluation form will receive six continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we only give credit to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits and will not be eligible for the 15% premium discount described below.

Continuing Education Credits  – 6 Credits

Sequence XI: Ethics, Risk Management and Vulnerabilities: Yours, Mine, and Ours is sponsored by the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA). CPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content

Continuing Education Grievance Policy

CPA is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists. CPA will comply with all legal and ethical guidelines for non-discrimination in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of CE participants. The CPA Continuing Education Chair is responsible for complying with these standards.

While CPA strives to assure fair treatment for all participants and to anticipate problems before they occur, occasionally grievances may be filed. In cases where a participant files a written or oral grievance, the following actions are taken:

• If the grievance concerns the content of the workshop, webinar, book, or the continuing education test, a CPA representative will mediate and will be the final arbitrator. If the participant requests action, the CE Director or a CPA representative will either provide a credit for a subsequent CE offering or provide a partial or full refund of the CE fee already paid.
• Actions involving a credit or a refund will require a written note documenting the grievance for record-keeping purposes. The aggrieved individual need not sign the note. If the grievance specifically concerns CPA, the CE Chair or CPA representative will attempt to arbitrate.

Direct correspondence to:  Connecticut Psychological Association
P.O. Box 915, North Haven, CT 06473 Phone: (203) 464-3793 Email: info@connpsych.org

Target Audience:

The Trust’s workshops and webinars are appropriate primarily for psychologists and psychology students, but may also be useful to other related behavioral health practitioners.

Eligibility for Insurance Premium Discounts

Workshop completion earns 6 CE credits and eligibility to receive a 15% premium discount on your Trust Sponsored Professional Liability Insurance for your next 2 consecutive policy periods. To obtain CE discounts, submit CE certification from an organization approved by APA to offer CE credit (must have been completed within the previous 15 months) with the insurance application. Discounts cannot be combined and are not applicable to Researcher/Academician or Student policies. Group policies become eligible for the CE discount when at least 50% of those insured under the group policy submit CE certification. All applications are individually underwritten and submission of CE certification will not guarantee insurance policy issuance or renewal.