2025 Ethics Symposium
- Topic Areas:
- Clinical & Practice Documentation | Ethics | LGBTQ | Artificial Intelligence in Psychology
- Categories:
- Live Webinar
- Speakers:
- Christopher R. Martell, Ph.D., ABPP | Leanna Fortunato, Ph.D. | Shireen T. Hart, Esq.
- Course Levels:
- Introductory to Intermediate
- Duration:
- 7 Hours 30 Minutes
- License:
- Never Expires.
Producer: VPA/Brattleboro Retreat
Description
This symposium will comprise speakers on the topics of ethics in working with LGBTQ+ clients and on using AI in mental health care.
When Clients are Targets: Ethical Practice with Sexual & Gender Minority Clients in Challenging Times - Dr. Christopher Martell
Affirmative therapy with sexual and gender minority clients, considered clinically sound and ethical practice, may now be a politically subversive enterprise. This workshop will present, and allow for open discussion, of how to provide good care and protect the confidentiality and confidence of gender minority clients in particular, and sexual minority clients. Roll-backs in research and funding for topics of diversity may specifically disenfranchise clients with multiple, intersectional identities.
AI in Mental Health Care: Promise, Pitfalls, and Ethical Practice - Dr. Leanna Fortunato & Shireen Hart, Esq.
Mental health concerns have surged in recent years, yet access to care remains out of reach for many. Addressing the mental health crisis requires a multi-pronged approach. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising opportunities to re-imagine the delivery of mental health care. This webinar will explore the potential of AI to enhance mental health care, as well as the challenges associated with AI technologies and the implications this has for clinical care. Additionally, the session will review ethical frameworks to help guide the safe and responsible integration of AI into clinical practice.
Credits
Vermont
6 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, and is also approved by the Vermont Board of Psychological Examiners to sponsor continuing education for psychologists licensed in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics: 6
Cultural Competency: 3
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation for continuing education credit for licensed independent clinical social workers in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types;
Ethics: 6
Cultural Competency: 3
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Board of Allied Mental Health for continuing education credit for licensed clinical mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types:
Ethics: 6
Cultural Competency: 3
Connecticut
6 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Connecticut accepts these credits for continuing education for psychologists in Connecticut pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-191c(b). This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Veterans' Mental Health: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educaiton for psychologists. Based on this approval, this course is pre-approved for credit for Connecticut licensed professional counselors under Conn. Agencies Regs § 20-195cc-3(a)(1). This course is intended to qualify for mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics: 6
Veterans' Mental Health: 0
Massachusetts
6 CE Credits for Psychologists & LMHCs
7.2 CE Credits for LCSWs
6CE Credits for LMHCs
The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists accepts credits earned from courses sponsored by APA-approved sponsors as indicated in 251 C.M.R. §§ 4.02, 4.03.
As a course sponsored by an APA-approved CE sponsor, this course qualifies for credit for clinical social workers and certified social workers in Massachusetts under 258 CMR sec 31.04(2)(d).
The Vermont Psychological Association (VPA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7610. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. VPA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
New Hampshire
6 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The New Hampshire Board of Psychologists accepts credits earned from courses sponsored by APA-approved sponsors as indicated in Psyc § 402.01(d)(11). This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics: 6
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for clinical social workers licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credits:
Ethics: 6
Suicide Prevention: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for clinical mental health counselors licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credits:
Ethics: 6
Suicide Prevention: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for marriage and family therapists; pastoral psychotherapists; and school social workers licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). The course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types:
Ethics: 6
Suicide Prevention: 0
New York
7.2 CE Contact Hours
The Vermont Psychological Association is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0210. This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated continuing education topics as follows:
Ethics: 6
Professional Boundaries: 0
Other States Accepting Credits from APA-Approved Sponsors
6 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The Vermont Psychological Association maintains responsibility for its programs and their content. Psychologists and other professionals licensed in states whose respective licensing boards approve continuing education offered by APA-approved sponsors may earn continuing education credits for this course.
Other States Accepting Credits from NBCC-Approved Sponsors
6 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association (VPA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7610. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. VPA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Speaker
Christopher R. Martell, Ph.D., ABPP Related Seminars and Products
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Leanna Fortunato, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products
Director of Quality and Health Care Innovation
American Psychological Association
Dr. Leanna Fortunato, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Director of Quality and Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association. Dr. Fortunato’s work focuses on finding creative ways to harness technology to make high-quality mental health care more accessible for all. She contributes to the development and implementation of strategies that promote psychological practice innovation in the realms of digital mental health and measurement-based care. Prior to her role at APA, she has worked as a clinical administrator, practitioner, and consultant across a variety of settings including university-based mental health care, private practice, and digital mental health.
Shireen T. Hart, Esq. Related Seminars and Products
Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer
Shireen has been practicing law in Vermont for nearly thirty years, with her primary focus on health law. As the senior healthcare attorney, Shireen and her team represent all types of health-related entities, such as Hospitals, Designated Agencies, Special Services Agencies, Long Term Care Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Professional Associations, Vendors, and Individual Clinicians and Practices. The team's services run the gamut of what our clients experience, with a dedication to responsiveness and full coverage. Hospital and other facility clients do not go on vacation, so the ability to be accessible at key times is paramount.
Shireen's individual focus is on Compliance, Certificates of Need, Medical Staff Matters, Professional Licensure, Reimbursement Issues, Contract and Employment Matters, and Governance, with a focus on Non-profit Law. The Healthcare team frequently has matters pending before the Green Mountain Care Board, the Vermont Board of Medical Practice, the Office of Professional Regulation, Vermont's Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit, and the Department of Vermont Health Access.
Course Objectives
Objective 1 Articulate what the APA record keeping guidelines direct us to keep in notes and how ethical concern for vulnerable client populations may guide us to protect privacy in client notes.Objective 2 Participants will state how the current political climate is negatively affecting gender minority clients.
Objective 3 Participants will be able to discuss how a liberation psychology lens informs treatment.
Objective 4 Participants will note the intersection of advocacy and affirmative care for sexual and gender minority clients.
Objective 5 Describe 2 ways that AI could enhance the delivery of mental health care
Objective 6 Describe 2 risks posed by integrating AI into mental health care.
Objective 7 Identify 3 key components of ethical frameworks guiding the use of AI in care.
Objective 8 Apply ethical principles to a vignette regarding the use of AI in clinical practice.