Description
May 30, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm | Virtual via Zoom
**You MUST have your camera on to receive credit for this workshop**
Description:
Mental health problems are complex. The causes, course, underlying psychological dynamics, context, and consequences vary greatly from person to person. As a result of this complexity, psychotherapy requires deliberate, intentional clinical and ethical decision-making. The purpose of this case-based conference is to help participants consider unique ethical challenges associated with treating people with mental health problems. This case-based conference goes well beyond mundane descriptions of ethical principles and codes of conduct. We delve into clinical and ethical decision-making processes, describing and applying cognitive dynamics associated with ethical vs. unethical behaviors. Challenging cases are presented by the facilitator and discussed by participants throughout the conference.
Objectives:
1. Distinguish between principles and processes associated with ethical decision-making in psychotherapy
2. List two different ethical principles relevant to psychotherapy and describe how they may conflict with each other
3. Discuss differences between the three distinct stages of ethical decision making: before, during, and after an ethical decision is made
4. Explain at least two behavioral ethics constructs (e.g., bounded ethicality, heuristics, biases, want versus should thinking, motivated reasoning, etc.)
5. Define System 1 and System 2 thinking and relate these to ethical decision-making in psychotherapy
Audience:
Behavioral health professionals
Presenter:
Bruce Liese, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor of Family Medicine, Community Health, and Psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Clinical Director at the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment. He has taught more than 100 courses and workshops and supervised hundreds of psychotherapy trainees. He has co-authored more than 75 publications, including three textbooks. His most recent book, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Addictive Disor-ders, was published in 2022 with co-author Dr. Aaron T. Beck. For his service to the APA Division on Addiction Psychology, Dr. Liese received a President’s Citation (2015) and the Distinguished Career Contributions to Edu-cation and Training Award (2018). He also received an APA Presidential Citation for his community work (2018). Dr. Liese continues to provide psychological services to approximately 25 patients per week and he volunteers to facilitate a SMART Recovery group attended by an average of 30 attendees per week.
Contact hours:
3 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
3 contact hours for drug and alcohol counselors pending approval from the Maine Board of Drug and Alcohol Counselors.
3 Category I contact hours for Maine psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Maine Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
3 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
