Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Managing Difficult Patients and Terminating Treatment

Course overview

This law and ethics seminar provides therapists with tools needed to ethically and legally terminate treatment under many different scenarios, including unilateral termination decisions, when therapists determine that they can no longer provide effective treatment. The course covers appropriate boundary and limit setting with difficult patients, and how to navigate ethically and legally when limits are not respected and followed. Attendees will be asked to analyze vignettes based on complex situations and describe when termination is not appropriate and how to terminate appropriately. Attendees will also receive articles, updated office forms, deposition guidelines, tips for responding to licensing board actions, duty to warn and protect guidelines, and a revised HIPAA packet.