Santa Clara University

Center for Professional Development - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues


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Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues

CPSY x932A (4 hours) and CPSY x932B (6 hours)

Day May 30, 2008
Time 9am-1pm or 9am-4pm
Room Arts and Sciences, Wiegand Conference Room
Credit 0.4 or 0.6 CEUs, 4 or 6 CE Hours
Cost $95 or $140

Description

Little training is usually offered to mental health professionals on ethical, legal, and professional issues during their graduate and post-graduate studies. Yet these issues become critical when they enter the working world. This workshop will highlight and update you in the contemporary ethical, legal, and professional issues encountered in mental health services such as private and group practices, hospital, and clinic environments. Topics will include: an overview of ethical principles and a way to make good ethical decisions; common ethical dilemmas and possible resolutions; important legal requirements with which all mental health professionals should be familiar; minimizing the risk of malpractice or other litigation troubles; and current and future trends in the field.

Instructor


Thomas Plante,Ph.D., ABPP

Thomas Plante, Ph.D., ABPP, is a professor of psychology at Santa Clara University.  He is also an adjunct clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and maintains a private practice in Menlo Park. He is author of 12 books including, Do the Right Thing: Living Ethically in an Unethical World (New Harbinger, 2004), Contemporary Clinical Psychology, Second Edition (Wiley, 2005), and the forthcoming Using Religious and Spiritual Tools in Psychological Treatment (American Psychological Association, in press).
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