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This course satisfies the ethics continuing education course requirement for LCSWs, LPCCs, MFTs and psychologists that is required every license-renewal period.
ABX2 15—California’s physician aid-in-dying law—takes effect on June 9, 2016. Learn about the features of the bill, its impact on clinical activities and how the ethics codes of professional organizations can provide guidance for entering into this area of practice. Examine strategies to provide legal, ethical and clinically sound health care services to patients, families and communities.
Learner Outcomes
At the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Summarize the main aspects of Assembly Bill X2 15 and how the legislation relates to mental health clinicians
- Compare and contrast professional ethical standards, principles and policies to inform clinical decisions about aid in dying
- Classify mental health clinicians’ roles with patients and their families considering aid in dying
- Assess the cultural and contextual issues that affect patients’ aid in dying decisions
- Articulate your own feelings and attitudes about patients making aid in dying decisions
- Recognize psychosocial factors that influence patients’ medical preferences
- Conduct a hastened death decision-making assessment
- Facilitate advance-care planning to support the needs, values and goals of patients, their families and their communities
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Fall enrollment opens on June 20!