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Indiana Mental Health & The Law - 2020


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Faculty:
Phyllis Garrison, JD, CHP, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP
Duration:
5 Hours 39 Minutes
Copyright:
Aug 24, 2020
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Product Code:
RNV030385
Media Type:
DVD - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

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Description

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.

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**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.  For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


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Course Level: Intermediate. Format: Asynchronous distance learning. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


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Phyllis Garrison, JD, CHP, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP Related seminars and products

Eskenazi Health


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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Objectives

  1. Differentiate between temporary and regular involuntary commitment for treatment and determine the clinician’s role in each.
  2. Analyze the legal and ethical considerations for the treatment of minor populations in Indiana with regard to age of consent, confidentiality and custody concerns.
  3. Determine ethical issues related to the use of restraints, seclusion and informed consent.
  4. Articulate the role and responsibilities of the treatment provider as related to duty to warn law in Indiana.
  5. Analyze the different requirements for release of protected health information via subpoenas and court orders.
  6. Develop policies on ethical issues such as restraints, seclusion and informed consent.

Outline

VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT OF MENTALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS
  • Emergency & Immediate Detention
  • Involuntary Commitment (Temporary & Regular)
  • Guardianship, Power of Attorney, Psychiatric Advance Directives
TREATMENT RIGHTS
  • Individual’s Legal Rights
    • Informed Consent
  • Right to Refuse Treatment
  • Restraints & Seclusion
  • Psychotropic Medication Issues
CONFIDENTIALITY
  • Reporting Requirements
    • Child Abuse
    • Vulnerable Adults
    • Duty to Warn
    • Other Reporting
    • Subpoenas/Court Orders
RELEASE OF INFORMATION
  • Mental Health Records
  • Psychotherapy Notes
  • Substance Abuse Records
FERPA
  • Minors
    • HIPAA & HITECH: Privacy & Security Standards 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Counselors
  • Risk Managers
  • Addiction Professionals
  • Case Managers
  • Nurses
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