Please note: This is a webinar that will be held outside the CE Institute. Webinar access instructions, evaluations, and certificates will be communicated by NASW VT Chapter a day before the webinar. You must attend the live workshop to receive CEs associated. 

This program has been approved for 6 Continuing Education hours in Ethics. 

NASW Vermont Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0683.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the nature of social work practice. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments; assist people in crisis; provide resources; strengthen prevention efforts; document services; identify systemic biases in the delivery of social services; provide social work education and supervision; and predict social worker burnout and service outcomes, among other uses.

This webinar will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to social workers’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline key elements of a strategy for social workers’ ethical use of AI. Join Dr. Frederic Reamer as he examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the ways in which artificial intelligence is being used in social work.
2. Identify ethical issues and challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence in social work.
3. Apply social work ethics standards.
4. Develop ethics-informed policies and protocols to protect clients and social workers.

Workshop details:

• The zoom link will be sent to you the day before
• Participants are expected to have their cameras on and be able to participate
• Want to pay by check? Please email Emryn - elessie.naswnh@socialworkers.org

• Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D., ProfessorBio
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Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D., Professor Bio

Frederic Reamer is on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College. His teaching and research focus on professional ethics, criminal justice, mental health, health care, and public policy. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers in 1996 and served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by NASW, the Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed standards governing social workers’ use of technology in professional practice.


Dr. Reamer serves as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Work and served as editor of the Journal of Social Work Education. He also served on the State of Rhode Island Parole Board for 24 years and has been the ethics instructor for the Providence (RI) Police Academy since 2012.


Dr. Reamer has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics, including in India, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and in various European nations. He has published 25 books and more than 185 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles. His books include Social Work Values and Ethics; The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work; Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes and Consequences; Criminal Lessons: Case Studies and Commentary on Crime and Justice; On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Justice, Redemption, and Justice; Risk Management in Social Work; The Social Work Ethics Casebook; Ethical Standards in Social Work; Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions; Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services; Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Social Work; Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services; Teens in Crisis: How the Industry Serving Struggling Teens Helps and Hurts our Kids; and The Social Work Ethics Audit, among others. Dr. Reamer has served as an expert witness in many court and licensing board cases throughout the United States. In 2016 Dr. Reamer was named a Social Work Pioneer by the National Association of Social Workers for his "commitment and dedication to the social work profession and to the improvement of social and human conditions at the local, state, national, and international levels." He is the father of two daughters and is married to social work professor Deborah Siegel.