Tele-mental health care can aid many patients, but poses several ethical challenges. Questions emerge regarding data privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, legal, regulatory and ethical issues, provider preparedness, assessments of potential risks and benefits, and social justice. This interactive webinar, led by some of the leading experts on these issues, will explore challenges of providing tele-mental health care and ways of addressing them.
Learning Objectives:
Identify at least two ethical challenges associated with mental health evaluation and treatment using videoconferencing technology.
Apply at least two ethical frameworks/principles to clinical scenarios in telemental health.
Analyze the approaches to minimizing potential ethical and legal problems in tele-mental health.
This learning activity fulfils the NYSED professional ethics requirements for NYS licensed psychologists and social workers. This event is a fantastic opportunity to learn and discuss effective strategies for providing tele-mental health care.
This event is organized by the Columbia University Master’s In Bioethics Program and the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. SPS/CUIMC/NYSPI employees interested in earning continuing education credit for attending this event should email Psych.CE@nyspi.columbia.edu to register.
Speakers
Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D.
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law
Director Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry
Director, Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Robert Klitzman, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Director, Masters of Bioethics Program
Joseph Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Katy Skimming, M.D.
Attending Physician
NYU Langone Psychiatry Associates
Manuel Trachsel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Bio and Medical Ethics,
Head of the Clinical Ethics Unit
University of Basel, Switzerland
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