As a mental health professional, you not only deal with critical clinical matters with your clients – you must also stay up-to-date on seemingly ever-changing laws and procedures. Keeping up-to-date is essential in order to protect your clients and yourself. At this comprehensive one-day seminar you will gain an understanding of voluntary and involuntary admission and discharge issues; patient/client treatment rights; informed consent, confidentiality and privilege; the release of information; reporting requirements, HIPAA, HITECH, and much more, that will help you stay on top of issues that arise in everyday clinical situations.
NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation).
Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
This self-study activity includes 5.5 hours of State specific ethics instruction. Not all boards allow ethics credit for self-study products. If ethics is not specified within your licensing board’s approval statement below, please contact your board to determine the applicability and amount of ethics allowed.
This self-study activity consists of 5.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2020 - January 27, 2023. Social Workers completing this course receive 5.5 Ethics continuing education credits.
Course Level: Intermediate. Format: Asynchronous distance learning. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
This self-study activity consists of 5.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 5.5 CE in the Legal, Ethical and Professional Development skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
This self-study activity qualifies for 5.5 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Indiana Mental Health & The Law 2020 (1.5 MB) | 101 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Phyllis J. Garrison, JD, CHP, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP is most recently retired as the Privacy Director and a member of the legal staff for Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, Indiana. She has returned to her private legal practice as “Of Counsel” in the Garrison Law Firm, Indianapolis. She previously served as Associate General Counsel for Community Hospitals of Indiana, Inc., and has provided legal services for a number of health care entities both as outside counsel and in-house counsel since 1984. Ms. Garrison has experience with a wide variety of health law issues including regulatory issues, fraud and abuse; EMTLA; anti-trust, nursing liability, medical records documentation; research compliance, mental health; professional licensure issues; HIPAA and medical malpractice. She graduated, magna cum laude , from Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis and holds a BS degree from Ball State University where she graduated summa cum laude.
Ms. Garrison is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, Who’s Who in American Law, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Indiana Security and Privacy Network, and St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild. She is also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Phyllis Garrison maintains a private legal practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Phyllis Garrison is a member of the Indiana Bar Association.
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