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Artificial Intelligence in the Behavioral Health Professions: Ethical and Risk Management Issues
- Credit(s): 3 Ethics
- Course Number: NATPRESS049
- Access: Available for 5 months after Registration
External Course
- Non-Member Price
- $35.00
- Member Price
- $27.00

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING – You are registering for credits ONLY. In order to complete this course and claim the credits, you must separately purchase and read Artificial Intelligence in the Behavioral Health Professions: Ethical and Risk Management Issues, by Frederic G. Reamer, from NASW Press, then complete an exam. After you purchase the credits on the Social Work Online CE Institute, navigate to your My Products page and click the green Play button to purchase the publication from NASW Press. Once you have read the publication, navigate back to your My Products page and click the blue Get Certificate button to complete the exam. Please only attempt to complete the exam after you have separately purchased and read the publication.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in the field of behavioral health in clinical, administrative, advocacy, policy, and educational settings. Behavioral health practitioners are using AI to provide and document clinical services, predict clinical outcomes, empower clients to self-monitor, provide crisis intervention, supervise clinicians, detect plagiarism, and write grant applications.

Alongside these advances, the use of AI ushers in a new era of ethical issues and risk management threats. Ethical practice requires that behavioral health professionals address key AI-related challenges, including AI’s impact on informed consent; privacy and confidentiality; client surveillance; transparency; clinical errors; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and plagiarism, fraud, dishonesty, and misrepresentation.

Rather than being overwhelmed by these fast-moving developments, Artificial Intelligence in the Behavioral Health Professions invites you to be informed. A foremost expert in ethics, Reamer uses real-world examples and dozens of case studies to provide insights into the ways in which behavioral health professionals are using AI, the associated ethical and risk management issues, protocols for ethical use of AI, and state-of-the-art strategies that will protect clients and practitioners alike.

Whether you enthusiastically embrace AI or are wary of its dangers, this technology is here to stay. As with any cutting-edge innovation, it will take time to fully comprehend both its opportunities and its pitfalls. At the very least, behavioral health practitioners must be active participants in these ongoing efforts and dialogues and be cognizant of the impact of AI on practice. After all, awareness and participation are at the center of what ethical practice requires.

Learning Objectives:

Identify ethical issues associated with the use of artificial intelligence to deliver behavioral health services
Apply ethical standards in the behavioral health professions when using artificial intelligence
Design and implement risk management protocols to protect clients and practitioners who use artificial intelligence

Credits

3 Ethics

Faculty

Frederic G. Reamer, PhDBio

Frederic G. Reamer, PhD Bio

Frederic G. Reamer, PhD, is professor emeritus in the graduate program of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College. His research and teaching have addressed a wide range of human services issues, including mental health, healthcare, criminal justice, public welfare, and professional ethics. Reamer has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings and has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on the subjects of professional ethics and professional malpractice and liability. Reamer received the Distinguished Contributions to Social Work Education Award from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE; 1995), the Presidential Award from National Association of Social Workers (NASW; 1997), the International Rhoda G. Sarnat Award from NASW (2012), and the Excellence in Ethics Award from NASW (2015). In 2016, NASW named Reamer a Social Work Pioneer. In 2023, he received the Mit Joyner Presidential Award from NASW.

Reamer’s books include The Social Work Ethics Casebook: Cases and Commentary (revised 2nd edition; NASW Press); Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints (Columbia University Press); Risk Management in Social Work: Preventing Professional Malpractice, Liability, and Disciplinary Action (Columbia University Press); Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes, and Consequences (Columbia University Press); On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice (Columbia University Press); A Guide to Essential Human Services (NASW Press); Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services: Cases, Causes, and Strategies for Prevention (NASW Press); Criminal Lessons: Case Studies and Commentary on Crime and Justice (Columbia University Press); Social Work Values and Ethics (Columbia University Press); Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services (Columbia University Press); Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Review of the NASW Code of Ethics (revised 3rd edition; NASW Press); The Social Work Ethics Audit: A Risk Management Tool (NASW Press); Teens in Crisis: How the Industry Serving Struggling Teens Helps and Hurts Our Kids (Columbia University Press; with Deborah H. Siegel); Finding Help for Struggling Teens: A Guide for Parents and the Professionals Who Work with Them (NASW Press; with Deborah H. Siegel); Ethics Education in Social Work (CSWE); The Foundations of Social Work Knowledge (Columbia University Press; editor and contributor); Ethics & Risk Management in Online & Distance Behavioral Health (Cognella); Social Work Research and Evaluation Skills: A Case-Based, User-Friendly Approach (Columbia University Press); The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work (Columbia University Press); AIDS & Ethics (Columbia University Press; editor and contributor); Ethical Dilemmas in Social Service (Columbia University Press); Rehabilitating Juvenile Justice (Columbia University Press; coauthor, Charles H. Shireman); and The Teaching of Social Work Ethics (The Hastings Center; coauthor, Marcia Abramson). Reamer serves frequently as an expert witness in litigation and licensing-board cases throughout the United States.

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