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Vicarious Liability and Ethics in Healthcare

Speaker(s):

Terri Cooley-Bennett, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, TTS

Presentation:

Professionals in Behavioral Health and Healthcare often function in a variety of roles. These include being key members of interdisciplinary teams, providing clinical oversight and supervision, and delivering services to vulnerable populations. Because of the unique challenges experienced, opportunities for ethical dilemmas and vicarious liability are not uncommon. As professionals, we are accountable not only for our own ethical behavior, but for the behavior of others including colleagues and supervisees. This continuing education program will provide an overview of common ethical principles with a special emphasis on Vicarious Liability or the doctrine of “imputed negligence”. As an important aspect of practice, resources for identifying, managing, and preventing ethical violations will be provided with the goal being excellent customer service to our clients, supervisees, colleagues, and agencies.

Objectives:

  1. Participants will be provided with an understanding and overview of common ethical principles

  2. Participants will define Vicarious Liability and will discuss the variety of ways that professionals and clinicians can be held accountable for Vicarious Liability or “imputed negligence”

  3. Participants will describe Interdisciplinary Team Collaboration as it relates to Ethics and Liability

  4. Potential Ethical Dilemmas which are common in a healthcare setting that arise from Vicarious Liability will be considered and options for managing the dilemma will be introduced

  5. Participants will examine strategies that will aide in the prevention of ethical violations and will determine how to address good, better, and best responses to common dilemmas

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COOLEY-BENNETT_2021 Vicarious Liability and Ethics In Health Care

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Likcani, Adriatik, Ph.D.

Dr. Likcani holds a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) from Kansas State University, two master’s degrees: MFT from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and MSW from University of Missouri Kansas City, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Family Therapy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Likcani is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Missouri, Clinical Fellow with AAMFT, Alumni of the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), and Chairperson of the State Committee of Marital and Family Therapists in Missouri.

Dr. Likcani has extensive experience with programs focused on treatment, prevention and recovery support. His research interests include: treatment for individuals with substance use disorders and their families; recovery courts; offender reentry; domestic violence; ethics; telehealth; diversity and cultural awareness; policy and advocacy. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Missouri and Program Director for the Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program.


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1. Contemporary Ethical Issues in Treatment and Recovery Support: Ethics, Values, Morals and Personal Worldview

2. Family Recovery Program: Development and Implementation

 


 

 

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Ellis-Ordway, Nancy, MSW, PhD

Nancy Ellis-Ordway, LCSW, PhD, is a psychotherapist with more than thirty years’ experience, specializing in treating eating disorders, body image issues, stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues. She has a private practice in Jefferson City, MO. In addition to a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University, she completed the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and a Ph.D. in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Missouri. She is the author of “Thrive at Any Weight: Eating to Nourish Body, Soul, and Self-Esteem” (2019).

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Weight Stigma and Ethics: Clinical Applications

 

 

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Cooley-Bennett, Terri, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, TTS

Ms. Terri Cooley- Bennett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MO), a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (KS), a Co-occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate (MO) and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Ms. Cooley-Bennett is the Outreach Services Manager at Swope Health Services. She is experienced as a presenter, workshop leader, and educator and served as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. She provides field instruction for social work students. In addition, she provides Continuing Education for professionals and has been a speaker and workshop presenter for various agencies and groups for over 20 years. Ms. Cooley-Bennet speaks and serves on the board of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Missouri Chapter and is trained with the National NASW Office of Ethics and Professional Review.

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Vicarious Liability and Ethics in Healthcare

 

 

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Smith, James, MEd, LPC, NCC

James M. Smith, M.Ed., LPC, NCC is the Director of Student Health and Counseling Services at Lincoln University of Missouri in Jefferson City. He has held various positions in the mental health field, including being a qualified mental health provider in the prison setting, a supervisor of the Integrated Dual Diagnoses Treatment team in a CPRC, and the director of a medication assisted opioid treatment program. He is nearing completion of his dissertation for a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision. His dissertation research is a qualitative study of factors that contribute to adult male survivors’ disclosure of childhood sexual abuse. He has provided supervision to counseling interns in the M.Ed. program at Lincoln University and to post-graduate counselors-in-training and provisional licensed professional counselors.

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Ethics of Supervising: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and Ethical Decision Making

 

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Ethics of Supervising: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and Ethical Decision Making

Speaker(s):

James Smith, MEd, LPC, NCC

Presentation:

This presentation focuses on the ethical principles from various Codes of Ethics, including ACA, NASW, and the Missouri Credentialing Board, which inform the practice of supervision. Counselors, social workers, and substance abuse professionals serve as gatekeepers of the professions through the supervision of students and post-graduate applicants for licensure. Supervision practice involves parallel processes, including full disclosure, personal development planning, and termination. In each of these stages, professionals can find help in ethical guidelines. This presentation will also demonstrate how professionals can apply ethical-decision making models to issues surrounding remediation and termination of supervision.

Objectives:

  1. Apply ethical principles to the practice of supervision
  2. Apply ethical codes (ACA and NASW) in initiation, full disclosure, personal development planning, and termination of supervision
  3. Apply an ethical decision-making model to issues related to remediation and termination of supervision
Smith_James_PPSupervision EthicsDownload
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Zellin, Stacie, MPH

Allison Rayburn, Ph.D., LMFT, MT-BC, earned her doctoral degree in Marriage and family therapy from the Florida State University. She accepted an assistant professor position in the Child and Family Development Program at the University of Central Missouri in 2018 teaching students in marriage and family therapy, human development and family science and child and family development. Her current research interests are trauma, addiction, and recovery support systems. Dr. Rayburn is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in the state of Missouri.

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Ethics: A Matter of Perspective

 

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Ethics: A Matter of Perspective

Speaker(s):

Stacie Zellin, MPH

Presentation: In an ethical dilemma, professionals may understand what needs to be done, but be unsure about the right approach. How can you determine what is best? This presentation will give you strategies, confidence and expertise when making decisions regarding ethical dilemmas.

Objectives:

  1. Identify strategies to address ethical dilemmas
  2. Develop confidence & expertise in ethical decision making
  3. Increase commitment to ethical decision making

 

 

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Rayburn, Allison, PhD

Allison Rayburn, Ph.D., LMFT, MT-BC, earned her doctoral degree in Marriage and family therapy from the Florida State University. She accepted an assistant professor position in the Child and Family Development Program at the University of Central Missouri in 2018 teaching students in marriage and family therapy, human development and family science and child and family development. Her current research interests are trauma, addiction, and recovery support systems. Dr. Rayburn is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in the state of Missouri.

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Family Recovery: Partnering with Families to Combat Opioid Use Disorders

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The Ethical Case for Prioritizing Suicide Prevention in Training, Practice and Systems, Part II

Speaker(s):

Ryan Lindsay, MSW

Presentation: Suicide represents a significant public health priority in the United States. For social workers, counselors, nurses, educators, administrators, and others who interact with those at-risk of dying by suicide, understanding how to not only prevent but to assess, refer and treat is an ethical mandate. Professionals from across multiple disciplines are driven by a “do no harm” approach; however, our training programs, systems, and professional development priorities often lack suicide prevention as a priority. This talk will provide an overview of the ethical mandates across professions and generate arguments from the literature that makes an ethical case that suicide prevention should be prioritized in training, practice, and systems.

Objectives:

  1. Identify ethical principles relevant to suicide prevention
  2. Describe the problem of suicide
  3. Identify strategies for upholding an ethical mandate of addressing the problem of suicide in training, practice, and systems
  4. Explain how to use existing Codes of Ethics, including NBCC and NASW, to inform trainings, practice and systems regarding prioritizing suicide prevention
Ethical Case for Suicide Prevention in Training Programs-MIMH 2019Download
Safety Plan For Suicide Risk Simuluation Assignment 3.7.19Download
Suicide Risk Assessment Fidelity Checklist 7.24.17Download