The End of Life Option Act: What Mental Health Clinicians Need to Know

At the end of this workshop, you should be able to:

1. Summarize the main aspects of Assembly Bill X2 15 and how the legislation relates to mental health clinicians
2. Compare and contrast professional ethical standards, principles and policies to inform clinical decisions about aid in dying
3. Classify mental health clinicians’ roles with patients and their families considering aid in dying
4. Assess the cultural and contextual issues that affect patients’ aid in dying decisions
5. Articulate your own feelings and attitudes about patients making aid in dying decisions
6. Recognize psychosocial factors that influence patients’ medical preferences
7. Conduct a hastened death decision-making assessment
8. Facilitate advance-care planning to support the needs, values and goals of patients, their families and their communities