OCPA WORKSHOP-CE - Ethics and Law for Clinical Psychologists

Saturday, March 15, 2025

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Stephen E. Berger, Ph.D., ABPP

Professor of Clinical Psychology

The Chicago School, 2400 E. Katella Avenue, Suite 1200, Anaheim, California 92806

Course Description:

This course is designed to be consistent with the ethics and law license renewal requirement for California Licensed Psychologists. The course will cover updates to relevant laws as well as to the APA Ethical Code. It will have an emphasis of reporting requirements such as: child abuse, elderly abuse, dependent adult abuse, spousal/cohabitant abuse. Detailed delineation of duties such as: to warn, to protect, to report to law enforcement. Specific cases that apply, such as Jenkins v. United States, Jaffee v. Redmond, Griswold v. Connecticut, the Gun Violence Restraining Order law, Tarasoff I and II. In addition to a review of the APA Ethics Code, the relationship with the Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege section of the California Evidence Code will be stressed. Handling of subpoenas, testimony at depositions and in court – expert testimony will be included.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the mandatory reporting requirements for psychotherapists.

2. Identify the difference between the reporting requirements of Tarasoff v. the Gun Violence Restraining Order law as it applies to psychotherapists v. licensed psychotherapists.

3. Describe the differences between privacy, confidentiality and privilege as they relate to patient confidential communications with an emphasis on cultural competence, diversity, justice and equity.

3-hour C.E. timeline:

1. 9:00 -10:00 – California Evidence Code Section 1010 Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege and APA Ethics Code review and relationship to each other.

2. 10:00 -11:00 - Mandatory reporting: privacy, confidentiality, privilege: Tarasoff, Ewing, Griswold

3. 11:00-11:45 - Technical legal issues: expert testimony: depositions and court: Jenkins, Frye and Daubert, CAPP v. Rank.

4. 11:45-12:00 - Questions and Answers

Bio:

Dr. Stephen Berger received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami in Florida in 1971. He had training at the University of Miami Health Clinic, at Jackson Memorial Hospital, at an outpatient mental health center, and at the Veteran’s Hospital in Miami on the only in-patient unit with men and women veterans. His internship was at Camarillo State Hospital in California where he had rotations on the child unit, on the adolescent unit, and on the mental retardation unit. He was selected as Intern of the Year. He served on the faculty of the University of Southern California from 1971-1978. He was primarily responsible for the graduate course in Psychological Assessment and taught and supervised psychotherapy courses and training, as well as Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations. From 1972-1982 he served as a Consulting Psychologist for the Counseling Section of the Occupational Health Service of Los Angeles County and was the Chief Occupational Health Psychologist for the County’s largest Department, the Department of Health Services from 1978-1982. He has taught graduate psychology courses for the California School of Professional Psychology (Alliant University), the California Graduate Institute, the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University | Southern California . He is now a Full Professor at The Chicago School - Anaheim, CA campus where he has taught courses in forensic psychology, clinical interviewing, ethics and law for Psychologists, consultation and supervision, neuropsychology, diagnostic and therapy practicum seminars and supervised students’ assessment and therapy cases. He has more than 200 invited addresses, workshops conducted, presentations at County, State, Regional, International psychology associations and meetings and at APA Conventions, as well as peer reviewed journal and book chapter publications as well as a couple of e-books.

Please Note: The workshop is restricted to 24 attendees - early registration is suggested.

Fees:

$65 - CPA Members

$65 - OCPA Members

$80 - Non-Members

$35 - Students

“CPA is co-sponsoring with Orange County Psychological Association. The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.”

Important Notice: Those who attend the workshop and complete the CPA evaluation form will receive 3 continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we give credit only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.

For more information, please contact Rosalyn Laudati, Ph.D., at [email protected].

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