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A better understanding of your legal obligations can help you provide more effective treatment to your clients and help you avoid costly mistakes. You will get the necessary tools to avoid ethical and legal pitfalls from this seminar recording.

Join attorney and emergency department physician Daniel L. Icenogle in this entertaining and enlightening recording to understand the latest Wisconsin law on mental health. You will learn how to immediately implement risk reduction strategies into your practice after you gain practical strategies to minimize and manage legal and ethical risks.

1. aluate your current record-keeping practices in order to ensure compliance with ethical and legal requirements in the state of Wisconsin.
2. Determine which notes, documents, reports, forms, and clinical data constitute an official medical record in the state of Wisconsin.
3. Compare the different requirements for release of protected health information via subpoenas and court orders.
4. Differentiate between the processes for voluntary and involuntary commitment for treatment and determine the clinician’s role in each.
5. Explore the legal and ethical considerations for the treatment of minor populations in Wisconsin with regard to age of consent, confidentiality and custody concerns.
6. Communicate how an understanding of common boundary and dual relationship issues/dilemmas can help you maintain appropriate relationships with your clients.

Mental health records can be confidential.

• Interaction of State Mental Health and Federal AODA Privacy Laws
• Patient Access
• Release With Authorization
• When and to Whom Records Can Be Released
• Psychotherapy Notes
  • What Are They?
  • Who Controls Them?
• Disclosure Without Authorization
  • Permitted Disclosures for Treatment
  • Permitted Disclosures for Other Reasons
  • Mandatory Disclosures
• HIV Records

There are Subpoenas, Court Orders, Testimony, and Law Enforcement.

• Subpoenas
  • Different Types of Subpoenas
  • What Do You Have to do?
  • Limitations on Subpoenas
• Court Orders
  • Court Orders for Records
  • Court Ordered Examinations
  • Search Warrants
• Providing Testimony
  • Therapist Privilege
  • Depositions
  • Trial Testimony
• Law Enforcement
  • Authority to Obtain Information
  • Investigations
  • Areas of Uncertainty
  • Disclosure of Impending Discharge
  • Disclosure of Treatment of Certain Injuries

There are voluntary and involuntarily mental health commitments.

• Grounds for an Involuntary Commitment
  • Threat to Others
  • Threat to Self
• Procedures

The Rights of Minors need to be balanced.

• Mental Health Records and the Rights of Minors
• Rights of Minors to Refuse/Consent to Treatment
• Access to Records
• Rights of Minors to Control Access to Their Records
• Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Treatment Issues for Minors
• Parental Rights
  • Divorce Issues
  • Custodial vs. Non-Custodial Parents
  • Foster Parents
  • Adoptive Parents
• Educational Health Records and FERPA
• Emancipation
• Minors and Medical Treatment

Boundary issues for professionals.

• Boundary Issues: Therapeutic
  • The Dual Relationship
  • Special Issues for Rural Providers
  • Social Media
• Boundary Issues: Civil Liability
• Boundary Issues: Regulatory Issues
  • Process and Procedure
  • Telehealth and Teletherapy

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