Law & Ethics for Professionals who Support System Involved Youth

Daniel O. Taube, JD, PhD

Training Description

The past few years have brought significant changes in federal and state statutes and case law relevant to the provision of behavioral health services for system involved youth. This update and review of ethics and law will assist those who support system involved youth in maintaining currency regarding such changes, while keeping a focus on foundational ethical principles, guidelines, and methods of enhancing decision-making and judgement. The workshop will begin with a discussion of challenges to and methods of addressing the quality of ethical decision making, with an emphasis on steps to reduce judgements in decisions, generally. The course then will turn its focus to a particular kind of bias-- racism and barriers to equity for traditionally marginalized communities in mental health care--and will present models to help increase access and equity. Confidentiality, it’s limits (e.g., case law and statutory developments in the…