Continuing Education Ethics Rounds Programs Stephen Behnke, JD, PhD, Director, APA Ethics Office Biography of the presenter The American Psychological Association’s Office of Continuing Education in Psychology is pleased to offer a new way to earn continuing education credits in ethics. The following programs are based on the APA Monitor’s Ethics Rounds articles. These articles have been published and have been selected to be converted into continuing education programs by Dr. Behnke.  To complete each program: Read the learning objectives and the articles (click on the PDF below) Purchase and complete the online exam Your results are available instantly!* How online exams work NEW! Ethics Rounds Program 10 [PDF 78KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Ethics in New Orleans (November 2006) Learning Objective: Identify key issues regarding the discussion of ethics and psychology at an APA annual convention. Disclosures of information: Thoughts on a process (April 2007) Learning Objective: Identify a process under the APA Ethics Code for disclosing confidential information. Ethics from a developmental perspective (January 2009) Learning Objective: Explain how a developmental perspective on ethics can lead to a deeper understanding of the ethical challenges psychologists face. Ethical practice in a reproductive medicine setting (February 2009) Learning Objective: Identify the ethical questions and dilemmas psychologists confront practicing in the area of reproductive medicine confront. A multicultural conference and summit, and an inauguration (March 2009) Learning Objective: Gain an appreciation of the role of diversity in the APA Ethics Code. Reading the Ethics Code more deeply (April 2009) Learning Objective:  Explore how to read the APA Ethics Code as a guide to psychology’s core values. NEW! Ethics Rounds Program 900 [PDF 82KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Room for more guidance (September 2001) Learning Objective : Identify reasons for and against giving psychologists more in-depth consultations on ethical and regulatory dilemmas A question of values (October 2001) Learning Objective: Discuss the values of psychology as a profession, and examine how those values fit within the larger context of the society in which psychology is practiced APA’s new Ethics Code from a practitioner’s perspective (April 2004) Learning Objective: Discuss the perspective of practicing psychologists on the APA Ethics Code Informed Consent and APA’s new Ethics Code: enhancing client autonomy, improving client care (June 2004) Learning Objective: Describe how the process of obtaining informed consent is consistent with, and can enhance, good clinical care APA’s new Ethics Code, its values and excellence in psychological services (July/August 2004) Learning Objective: Describe how the Standards in the APA Ethics Code provide guidance for psychologists in resolving ethical dilemmas by putting the Code’s Principles into practice Thinking ethically as psychologists: Reflections on Ethical Standards 2.01, 3.07, 9.08 and 10.04 (June 2005) Learning Objective : Describe how psychology has its own unique set of professional ethics, as demonstrated by specific ethical standards in the APA Ethics Code NEW! Ethics Rounds Program 800 [PDF 83KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 A resource for all members (July/August 2001) Learning Objective: Discuss the role of ethics and the APA Ethics Office in the American Psychological Association. Release of test data and APA’s new Ethics Code (July/August 2003) Learning Objective: Describe how the APA Ethics Code addresses the issue of responding to requests for test data. Test-scoring and interpretation services (March 2004) Learning Objective: Identify the ethical aspects of using test-scoring and test interpretation services. Forensic matters and the new APA Ethics Code (May 2004) Learning Objective: Identify how the APA Ethics Code addresses the ethical aspects of forensic practice. Traveling to Utah and discovering (once again) the value of an ethics consultation (May 2006) Learning Objective: Discuss how the challenges of a state psychological association can inform the profession about the ethical aspects of diversity and the value of ethics consultation. Exploring ethical aspects of our work (November 2007) Learning Objective: Identify two or more ways that ethics is presented at an annual APA convention. NEW! Ethics Rounds Program 700 [PDF 87KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Academic and clinical training under APA’s new Ethics Code (September 2003) Learning Objective: Discuss how the APA Ethics Code addresses mandatory disclosures of personal information and mandatory therapy in academic and clinical training programs. Disclosing confidential information in consultations and for didactic purposes: Ethical Standards 4.06 and 4.07 (April 2005) Learning Objective: Describe a process for determining when it is ethically appropriate to disclose confidential information in consultations and for didactic purposes. Notes from Istanbul (October 2006) Learning Objective: Describe how another national psychological association addresses ethics and psychology. Ethics from an international perspective: Notes from Hong Kong (March 2008) Learning Objective: Discuss how an ethics code from a different culture can deepen a psychologist’s understanding of APA’s Ethics Code. Ethics in the age of the Internet (July/August 2008) Learning Objective: Identify at least two ethical issues raised by the Internet. The intersection of psychologists’ personal and professional lives (November 2008) Learning Objective: Describe how the APA Ethics Code addresses the relationship between psychologists’ personal and professional lives. NEW! Ethics Rounds Program 600 [PDF 89KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Multiple Relationships and APA’s new Ethics Code: values and applications (January 2004) Learning Objective: Comprehend how the APA Ethics Code defines and addresses multiple relationships in its enforceable standards. Sexual Involvements with former clients: A delicate balance of core values (December 2004) Learning Objective: Comprehend the values and reasoning behind the standard in APA’s Ethics Code that addresses sexual involvements with former clients. Cooperating with other professionals: Reflections on Ethical Standard 3.09 (March 2005) Learning Objective: Grasp ethical aspects of psychologists’ relationships with other professionals in the service of mutual clients. Responding to a colleague’s ethical transgressions (March 2006) Learning Objective: Acquire a process for responding to a colleague’s ethical transgressions based upon an understanding of the values underlying APA’s Ethics Code. The discipline of ethics and the prohibition against becoming sexually involved with patients (June 2006) Learning Objective: Appreciate the importance of understanding the reasoning behind ethical standards in the APA Ethics Code, as illustrated by the prohibition against sexual involvements with patients. The work of the APA Ethics Office: frequent calls we receive (September 2007) Learning Objective: Grasp the process by which the APA Ethics Office provides ethics consultations to psychologists. Ethics Rounds Program 500 [PDF 83KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Disclosures of confidential information under the new APA Ethics Code: a process for deciding when, and how ( September 2004) Learning Objective: Discuss the process of disclosing confidential information under the APA Ethics Code Adolescents and confidentiality: Letter from a reader (February 2007) Learning Objective: Describe how clinical, legal and ethical considerations inform issues of confidentiality in the treatment of adolescents Notes from the 2007 Multicultural Conference and Summit (March 2007) Learning Objective: Describe how the APA Ethics Code incorporates diversity into the Code’s aspirational and enforceable aspects Multiple relationships: A vignette (February 2008) Learning Objective: Recognize ethical aspects of multiple relationships under the APA Ethics Code Important lessons for APA on island ethics: Notes from Hawaii (September 2008) Learning Objective: Identify ethical aspects of practice in a rural setting Exploring ethics in rural settings: Through the lens of culture(December 2008) Learning Objective: Utilize the lens of culture to examine ethical aspects of rural practice under the APA Ethics Code Ethics Rounds Program 400 [PDF 102KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Confidentiality in the treatment of adolescents (March 2002) Learning Objective: Gain a framework for understanding and applying rules of confidentiality as they apply to the treatment of adolescents  Release of test data and the new ethics code (November 2004) Learning Objective: Comprehend the ethical underpinnings of the Ethics Code’s standard on release of test data  Diagnoses, record reviews and the new Ethics Code (January 2005) Learning Objective: Examine ethical aspects of diagnoses, including diagnoses rendered on the basis of record reviews  Record-keeping under the new Ethics Code (February 2005) Learning Objective: Comprehend how the Ethics Code addresses record-keeping  Must a psychologist report past child abuse? (May 2002) Learning Objective: Gain a framework for analyzing the relationship between law and the APA Ethics Code in the context of mandatory child abuse reporting  Reporting past abuse, Part II (July/August 2002) Learning Objective: Explore different perspectives on analyzing the legal and ethical dimensions of reporting child abuse that occurred in the past Ethics Rounds Program 300 [PDF 88KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Reflections on Being an Ethical Clinician (April 2006) Learning Objective: Gain insight into what it means for a psychologist to be an ethical clinician Beyond Mere Compliance: Three Metaphors to Teach the APA Ethics Code (December 2006) Learning Objective: Examine the utility of using metaphors to teach the APA Ethics Code Posting On the Internet: An Opportunity for Self (And Other) Reflection (January 2007) Learning Objective: Comprehend how the APA Ethics Code may be applied in the context of new or developing technologies, such as the Internet Notes from the 2007 Multicultural Conference and Summit (March 2007) Learning Objective: Recognize the role of a multicultural conference and summit in the development of APA’s approach to ethics Multiple Relationships in Campus Counseling Centers: A Vignette (May 2008) Learning Objective: Gain a process of analyzing the ethical aspects of multiple relationships, as illustrated in the context of a campus counseling center The Unique Challenges of Campus Counseling (June 2008) Learning Objective: Comprehend unique ethical challenges of working in a campus counseling center Ethics Rounds Program 200 [PDF 87KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat   free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 The Supervisor as Gatekeeper (May 2005) Learning Objective: Examine ethical aspects of the supervisory relationship On Being an Ethical Psychologist (July-August 2005) Learning Objective: Comprehend the role of ethics and ethical dilemmas in clinical work On Being an Ethical Psychologist: A More-Than-Academic Example (September 2005) Learning Objective: Recognize how the Ethics Code may be applied in an educational manner to a conflict of interest dilemma in an academic setting Reflecting on How We Teach Ethics (October 2005) Learning Objective: Grasp the role of clinical judgment and discretion in teaching psychology students to address and resolve ethical dilemmas A Letter to ‘Ethics Rounds’ (January 2006) Learning Objective: Explore how the Ethics Code applies to referral situations in which significant conflicts of interest may be present Reflections on Training Ethical Psychologists (January 2008) Learning Objective: Examine how to teach ethics to psychology students and trainees Ethics Rounds Program 100 [PDF 88KB] (click to read articles) Requires Adobe Acrobat free download 1 Credit / 12 questions Member price: $15.00; Non-member price: $20.00 Letter from a Reader Regarding a Minor Client and Confidentiality (December 2005) Learning Objective: Examine how the Ethics Code applies to disclosures of confidential information in the treatment of adolescents The Titles We Use (February 2006) Learning Objective: Explore the ethical aspects of titles psychologists use in training and post-licensure APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct: An Ethics Code for All Psychologists…? (September 2006) Learning Objective: Comprehend how the APA Ethics Code may be applied across a broad range of psychologists’ activities Gossiping About Patients (May 2007) Learning Objective: Grasp a way of analyzing ethical questions that may arise at the boundaries of psychologists’ professional and personal lives Ethics and the Internet: Requesting Clinical Consultations over Listservs (July/August 2007) Learning Objective: Gain insight into how the Ethics Code may be applied in the context of novel technologies, such as the Internet Reflections on Media Ethics for Psychologists (April 2008) Learning Objective: Comprehend how the Ethics Code applies to emerging areas of the field, such as media psychology