The Santa Barbara County Psychological Association presents the following for 6 Continuing Education Hours for Psychologists, LCSW’s, LPCC's, LEP's and MFT’s
Digital Ethics
With Keely Kolmes, Psy.D.
on Saturday, October 7th, 2017
9am - 5pm
Faulkner Gallery
Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93102
The Internet and social networking are offering a number of new clinical and ethical challenges for those who provide face-to-face mental health services. These challenges include extra-therapeutic contacts between therapists and their clients, questions about what distinguishes personal and professional activities online, and a lack of clearly developed policies related to our online behaviors and interactions.
This course offers an introduction to digital ethics and to various social networking sites and activities and provides guidelines for how to manage the concerns that may arise for practitioners who are using these sites. Applicable ethical standards will be addressed. In addition to use of social media, we will also explore online storage, text messaging/SMS, email, and provision of teletherapy.
Attendees will also participate in an exercise to help you develop language for your own social media policies for your practice, your agency, or your training site.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe social media and summarize several popular social media sites and services.
2. Distinguish between one's personal and professional activities on the Internet.
3. Identify the ethical challenges that may arise from engaging in activities on the Internet.
4. Understand some of the legal issues that are relevant to clinicians using social media and other technology in their practices.
5. Appraise their use of e-mail, record-keeping, and mobile computing devices to prevent confidentiality breaches.
6. Construct a social media policy for one's office to address potential boundary issues with clients.
7. Review the different approaches and attitudes towards social networking between therapists and clients.
8. Discuss the relevant ethical issues as they pertain to therapists' web sites and social networking profiles.
9. Discuss various clinical issues that can arise due to online visibility of both clients and clinicians.
SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9am
9 - 10am
- Introduction
- Personal vs. Professional Activities on the Internet. Web visibility & Google Alerts
- Challenges we have all faced
10 - 11am
- Research on client and therapist extratherapuetic encounters online
- Introduction to Social Media sites
- Social Media tips & tricks & balancing personal and professional use
11 - 12 Noon
- Teletherapy, texting, Faxing
- Creating an ethical web presence
- Part 1 of Ethics Codes & their Intersection w/social media
12 - 1:30pm
Lunch on you own in Downtown Santa Barbara!
1:30 - 2:30pm
- Part 2 of Ethics Codes & their intersection with social media
- Vignettes/discussion (possible groups or pairs depending upon size of group)
2:30 - 3:30pm
- Social Media Policy Exercise (free handout of my policy)
3:30 - 4:30pm
- Discussion and Questions
- Conclusion & Evaluation/Feedback forms.
4: 30 - 5pm
6 CE hours available for California-licensed Psychologists, MFTs and LSCWs
CPA is co-sponsoring with the Santa Barbara Psychological Association. The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
Sincerely,
SBCPA Continuing Education Committee
Important Notice: Those who attend the workshop and complete the CPA evaluation form will receive 6 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 start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.
