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Managing Ethical Dilemmas in a Healthcare Setting

Speaker(s)

Terri Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW, CDDP-D

Behavioral Health Professionals working in a healthcare setting are in a unique position. As part of an inter-disciplinary team working alongside medical professionals, there are particular ethical dilemmas that may arise. Mental Health Professionals are often key members of interdisciplinary teams in healthcare settings. How do mental health professionals uphold their Code of Ethics while working as part of an interdisciplinary team? What are some of the typical ethical concerns that arise from being part of an interdisciplinary team? How does a mental health professional handle these concerns? How is conflict handled among team members who are in disagreement about patient care, workplace conduct, etc.? What happens when mental health professional’s code of ethics are different from other professionals?

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Risk Factors are Not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors

Keynote Speaker

Carl C. Bell, MD

Contrary to expectations of many psychiatric practitioners, exposure to a risk factor, e.g., a traumatic stressor, does not automatically put a person on a path to develop a psychiatric disorder, e.g. PTSD. Similarly, having a mental disorder does not automatically put a person on a path to do poorly in life, e.g. languish or get depressed. Scientific documentation will be provided that protective factors have the capacity to prevent risk factors from becoming predictive of “bad” mental health outcomes. Further, protective factors can decrease the risk individuals who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences from having serious psychopathology in later life. A theoretically sound, evidence-based, common sense model is offered as a “directionally correct” way to ensure that at-risk populations obtain protective factors to prevent potential risk factors from generating poor health and mental health outcomes.

Bell 6-3-16 Risk Factors are not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors – Slides in PDF format