Ethics for Ohio Mental Health Professionals - Glenn J. Karr, LLC, Attorney at Law.

Friday May 24, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 12:45 PM (4 hour/4 CE)

Registration begins at 8:00 AM.   Workshop begins promptly at 8:30 AM.

University of Akron

Simmons Hall 101

277 E. Buchtel Ave.

Akron, OH 44325

Glenn Karr is an Attorney in Columbus who has been very involved for many years dealing with legal issues relating to the mental health field. He teaches courses on HIPAA, confidentiality and duty to protect, as well as on licensing board ethical issues. He serves as legal counsel to many mental health organizations around the State of Ohio.

This workshop will provide an overview of potential problem areas involving high conflict divorce/custody situations, records issues, including releasing records and responding to subpoenas, identifying who is the client and protecting confidentiality, dealing with high risk clients, releasing test data, child abuse and other abuse reporting statutes, duty to protect situations and obligations, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule compliance and obtaining peer review and/or legal consultation when faced with problems. Various laws and rules which impact these areas will be identified and discussed, and ways to handle the various issues will be provided.

Training Objectives:

1.  Identify nine major practice areas presenting a high legal/licensing board risk.

2.  Recognize areas of the law which impact those high risk practice areas.

3.  Learn ways to avoid problems in those high risk practice areas.  

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About the sponsors and CEUs: The Akron Area Professional Psychologists (AAPP) are an approved provider for Psychologist CEUs. C&A is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board.   Four hours of Ethics Continuing Education Credits for Psychologists, Counselors and Social Workers will be provided to attendees.  We apologize – we are unable to offer CEUs for Marriage and Family Therapists at this time. 

Cost of training is $95.00. Members of Akron Area Professional Psychologists (AAPP) get $75 off the cost of this presentation with discount code. Psychologists are welcome to join AAPP at our website (akronareaprofessionalpsychologists.org). Members can contact Dr. Colin Christensen for the appropriate discount code to save $75 off the cost of this training.   Please contact Dr. Christensen at cchristensen@childandadolescent.org for discount code.