Iowa Mental Health & The Law – Daniel Icenogle

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Summary

• As a mental health professional, you not only deal with critical clinical matters with your clients – you must also stay up-to-date on seemingly ever-changing laws and procedures.

• Keeping up-to-date is essential in order to protect your clients and yourself.

• In this comprehensive recording, you will gain an understanding of the right to treatment and to refuse treatment, informed consent, basic commitment procedures, legal and therapeutic therapist/patient boundaries, reporting requirements, issues with electronic record-keeping, and much more that will help you stay on top of issues that arise in everyday clinical situations.

• Utilize an ethical decision making framework to recognize, analyze, resolve and/or prevent ethical problems and dilemmas in your clinical practice.

• Communicate the basic civil commitment procedures and determine the clinician’s role in each.