Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and...

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Frederic G. Reamer

Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions

A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints

Frederic G. Reamer

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Columbia University Press
17 August 2023

Social work

Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions is a comprehensive handbook for mental health and social service providers on prevention of malpractice lawsuits and licensing-board complaints. Frederic G. Reamer draws on his extensive firsthand experience as an expert witness in litigation and licensing-board cases throughout the United States to give readers an insider's view of practical risk-management strategies. He provides in-depth discussion of common risk areas and steps practitioners can take to protect clients and themselves.

Key topics include confidentiality and privileged communication; service delivery, including informed consent, assessment, boundary issues, suicide risk management, and use of technology; impaired practitioners; supervision and consultation; documentation; deception and fraud; and interruption and termination of services. Reamer offers pragmatic advice about how to respond to a lawsuit or licensing-board complaint. He emphasizes the challenges and risks related to remote service provision, especially during public health crises and pandemics. The book includes sample risk-management forms and templates as well as extensive case examples that illustrate fundamental risk-management concepts.

Designed for behavioral health professionals including social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, and substance use disorder treatment counselors, this book is an indispensable resource on how to navigate challenging ethics and risk-management issues.

By: Frederic G. Reamer
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780231208314
ISBN 10: 0231208316
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 17 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword, by Robert P. Landau Preface 1. Professional Risk Management: An Overview 2. Confidentiality and Privileged Communication 3. The Delivery of Services 4. Impaired Practitioners 5. Supervision: Clients and Staff 6. Consultation, Referral, Documentation, and Records 7. Deception and Fraud 8. Interruption and Termination of Service 9. Responding to Lawsuits and Licensing-Board Complaints Appendix: Sample Forms Notes References Legal Citations Index

Frederic G. Reamer is professor in the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College. He chaired the national task force that wrote the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and served on the code revision task force. His recent Columbia University Press books include The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work (second edition, 2022), Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services (third edition, 2020), Social Work Values and Ethics (fifth edition, 2018), and On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice (2016). Robert P. Landau is an attorney at the law firm of Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Peirce, Inc., in Providence, Rhode Island. He has decades of experience defending behavioral health providers, including social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, chemical dependency professionals, psychiatric nurses, and psychiatrists as well as hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other health-care providers in malpractice lawsuits and disciplinary proceedings.

Reviews for Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints

Risk Management provides mental health students and practitioners an accessible and comprehensive set of practice standards in a manner that is not intimidating but yet maintains excellent depth and accuracy. -- Robert Madden, University of Saint Joseph The complex issues and ethical challenges identified in this book are not unique to social work-yet rather they are common elements of any behavioral health process and therapeutic relationship. All behavioral health professionals face these ethical issues in their practice and are at risk. This is an essential text for behavioral health professionals. -- Gisele Ferreto, University of Maryland In a well-researched and well-written book, Reamer provides behavioral health practitioners with practical guidance on how to structure their policy and practice in a way that takes various legal and ethical risks into account. Reamer is truly a leading expert on risk management. -- Allan Barsky, Florida Atlantic University Frederic Reamer has become a household name in social work education and practice. In his typical and ineffable style, Dr. Reamer provides mental health practitioners with the necessary tools for risk management. To avoid the hazards within our litigious society, Reamer's work must be required reading for all practitioners of mental health services. -- Stephen M. Marson, editor, <i>The International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics</i>