Frederic G. Reamer
Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints
Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints
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Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions is a comprehensive handbook for mental health and social service providers that provides practical risk-management strategies to protect clients and themselves from malpractice lawsuits and licensing-board complaints. It covers key topics such as confidentiality, service delivery, impaired practitioners, supervision, documentation, deception, fraud, and interruption and termination of services, and includes sample risk-management forms and templates.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 424 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2023
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions is a comprehensive handbook designed to assist mental health and social service providers in preventing malpractice lawsuits and licensing-board complaints. Authored by Frederic G. Reamer, a renowned expert witness with extensive firsthand experience in litigation and licensing-board cases across the United States, the book offers invaluable insights into practical risk-management strategies.
In-depth discussion of common risk areas and steps practitioners can take to safeguard clients and themselves is provided, covering topics such as confidentiality and privileged communication, service delivery, impaired practitioners, supervision and consultation, documentation, deception and fraud, and interruption and termination of services. Reamer offers pragmatic advice on how to respond to lawsuits or licensing-board complaints, emphasizing the challenges and risks associated with remote service provision, particularly during public health crises and pandemics.
The book includes sample risk-management forms and templates, as well as extensive case examples, to 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 serves as an indispensable resource for navigating complex ethical and risk-management issues.
By leveraging Reamer's extensive expertise and practical insights, readers can enhance their understanding of risk management in the behavioral health professions and implement effective strategies to protect themselves, their clients, and their organizations.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231208314
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