On-Demand: Telemental Health & Supervision with AI: Ethical & Legal Considerations - 6 CEUs

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• CE Hours Included: 6 Ethics, Core, or Related (please see below for CE details)
  
  • Please note that asynchronous courses do not count toward CPCS certification or recertification
• Includes 6 Telemental Health, Supervision, Ethics & PSYPACT Hours and satisfies:
  • The GA Composite Board Telemental Health Supervision 3-hour requirement OR the GA Composite Board Telemental Health 6-Hour requirement
    
  • The training/renewal requirement as a PSYPACT provider
  • The Board of Behavioral Sciences requirement for telemental health in California
  • Telemental Health or Supervision requirements in other states or malpractice carrier requirements
• Format: On-Demand Webinar (“Asynchronous”) ~ At your leisure to be viewed at your own pace. You may pause, rewind, and fast forward at any point during the videos. You are in complete control of how you view this workshop. It also comes with a PowerPoint and references. There is a quiz at the end to ensure viewing and required by all CE approval organizations.
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• Presented by: Becky Beaton-York, Ph.D., LPC, CPCS (see bio below)
• Instruction Level: Introductory to Intermediate
• Target Audience: Counselors (Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, and other Mental Health Professionals are also welcome to attend)
• Workshop Recording: A recording of this workshop is available to review for 60 days after the presentation. However, participants must attend live to receive the "Synchronous" CE Certificate.
• This workshop is not yet available; by pre-registering, you will receive immediate access when it becomes available in October.

Educational Objectives:

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Explain the importance of training Supervisees in "TeleMental Health" and providing effective telemental health supervision (Continuing Education is now a requirement of supervisors in several states, including by the Georgia Composite Board)
• Describe how Artificial Intelligence has become a new area frontier of technology-assisted media and how to utilize it in your supervision (e.g., teach supervisees to create treatment plans and progress notes utilizing ChatGPT and how to do so ethically)
• Summarize what you need to include in your Supervisory Informed Consent, including recent requirements PSYPACT has employed regarding practicing in other states, which will most likely affect the Counseling and Social Workers Compacts as well.
• Discuss the circumstances regarding whether a Supervisee may practice across state lines under your license or not.
• Identify what technology applies to Telemental Supervision, including audio and video recordings of client sessions and how this technology needs to be stored, transferred, and destroyed.
• Review ethical guidelines for Supervision, particularly how they relate to Telemental Health.
• Demonstrate ways to respond to and manage emergencies, including a thorough Assessment for Fit for telemental health clients and supervisees to reduce liability (Both "Assessments for Fit" forms are included in this training).
• Discuss telemental health supervision cases.
• Explain the difference between Supervision and Consultation.

Workshop Description:

The use of "technology-assisted media" in the delivery of mental health services (or Telemental Health) has generated a lot of confusion and controversy. First of all, many therapists are confused about what even constitutes Telemental Health, which is much more far-reaching than many people realize. Basically, if a device requires electricity and you're using it to administer any level of mental health care, you're practicing Telemental Health. This includes phones (voice and texts), computers & tablets (email, billing, or storage of files), fax machines, the Internet (cloud storage of records, billing transactions, video-conferencing, the use of artificial intelligence, or even recommending apps and websites to clients). There is also a multitude of ethical issues and requirements related to each of these options, and every therapist's ethics code now states we need training in Telemental Health. This is why many licensing boards have passed laws requiring therapists to complete training in Telemental Health. Taken one step further, we need to make sure that our supervisees are aware of these requirements and nuances, and we need to apply them in supervision as well.

Presented by: Becky Beaton-York, Ph.D., LPC, CPCS

Dr. Beaton-York has provided behavioral health services since 1991, and she has a true passion for ethics and supervision. She was the Ethics Chair & Supervision Chair for the Licensed Professional Counselor’s Association of Georgia (LPCA-GA) for two years and in instrumental part of creating the Certified Professional Counselors Supervisor credential (CPCS). She's been on the Georgia Psychological Association's Ethics Committee since 2010 and their Ethics Chair for eight of those years. Dr. Beaton-York has also taught Ethics and Advanced Supervision several times at Georgia State University and has been adjunct faculty for Emory's Department of Psychology since 2016. For Emory, she primarily provides ethics trainings for their faculty. She has also served as an ethics expert on several malpractice cases.

Dr. Beaton-York founded a large anxiety, OCD, and trauma practice in Atlanta that she ran from 2004-2019 until she sold it. Many of her ethics examples come from these 15 years of managing up to 40 clinicians and answering ethical dilemmas nearly daily. She has supervised several hundred people to licensure, including master's as well as doctoral-level clinicians. Dr. Beaton-York has also coached hundreds of group practice owners in consultation groups and individually since 2010. Literally, she has taught tens of thousands of therapists how to manage ethical issues in one form or another for the past 25 years. In other words, navigating ethical dilemmas is Becky's jam. :-) Since she loves ethics, teaching, and mentoring, this inspired her to start The Knowledge Tree. Furthermore, Dr. Beaton-York was voted Counselor Educator of the Year by LPCA-GA in 2005 and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

Lastly, you may have seen "Dr. Becky" on one of the 60 episodes that she filmed as the featured psychologist on TLC's "Hoarding: Buried Alive." She has also made appearances on The Anderson Cooper Show, Good Morning America, CNN Headline News, and other media.

What people are saying about this workshop:

• "Dr. Beaton-York is an amazingly thorough and engaging presenter. Her knowledge and expertise for so many professions is astonishing! Can’t wait to learn from her again."
• "The content was super relevant and useful, and the presenter was fabulous! Thank you!" - JM, LCSW
• "I liked the pace of the workshop, the lessons from the presenter's experience, and ability to pose and hear questions from other participants. Great workshop!" - MB, Psychologist
• "It was a fun training, which is really saying something since the subject matter can be a little dry. Dr. Beaton-York was great, as always." - KW, LPC
• "Always knowledgeable about the ethical implications of telehealth as well as supervision. It was reassuring to learn a little more about ethically incorporating AI." - AB, LPC
• "Becky is engaging and super knowledgeable so I find her very trustworthy. The workshop was informative and well done and, as always, the handouts, resources and access to resources from TKT is always appreciated." - VLE, LPC
• "Well organized, and expanded my knowledge on digital issues and challenges pertaining to mental health and my practice." - JS, LMFT
• "Great workshop. Becky provided the essential nuts and bolts of telehealth ethics in an informative, engaging way." - SB, Psychologist
• "Becky always does a great job explaining complex issues. Great workshop!" - DD
• "Knowledgeable, Experienced, Engaging, & Confident!" - EBB, LPC
• "Excellent workshop. I have attended other workshops presented by Dr. Beaton-York. Always worthwhile." - AC, MFT, LCSW, LPC

6 Ethics, Core, or Related “Asynchronous” CE Clock Hours Included - Details by License Type Below:

• PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
• COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. For more detailed information regarding CE approvals, please click here.
• SOCIAL WORKERS: This workshop has been approved for 6 Core CE hours through the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW), approval #071224. If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.
• MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: Many states will accept APA and/or NBCC-approved continuing education hours for Marriage & Family Therapists, but please check your specific state’s rules and regulations. For Georgia-specific information regarding MFT approval, please go to our CE Information page, by clicking here and scrolling down to the map of Georgia.

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