TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Clinician’s Duty to Protect in an Era of Telehealth – Legal and Clinical Considerations in Washington

Name: TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Clinician’s Duty to Protect in an Era of Telehealth – Legal and Clinical Considerations in Washington
Start: 2025-08-15T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-15T14:00:00-05:00

August 15 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

TeleBehavioral Health 2025 Training Series is a free twelve-part webinar series open to anyone providing services to individuals who live with mental health and substance use issues. This Zoom-based series takes place the third Friday of each month, January through December 2025, from 1 pm – 2 pm (CST). You are invited to attend all webinars, but you will need to register for each webinar separately.

Overview: The mental health clinicians’ “duty to protect” others from violent acts of our patients is complicated and raises legal and clinical questions. This talk will review the standard in Washington, which is an outlier compared to other states. The talk will discuss practice pointers and consider a variety of clinical settings, including telehealth.

Presenter: Jennifer Piel, MD, JD, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Mental Health, Policy, and the Law in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington

Details

Date:: August 15
Time:: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Event Category:: Webinar
Website:: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fbyiNMB3TSSo9-cZHNylaw#/registration

Organizer

: University of Washington Behavioral Health Institute
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