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Clinical Psychology Summer Institute: Classes

Monday, August 16, 2021

How in the world can these people believe THAT?!: Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Erosion of Our Common Reality

Schedule: 1–3 p.m. (2 CE hours)
Registration fee: $70
Instructor: David Mays, MD, PhD
Class level: Intermediate to advanced

Class Summary

Many of us have watched first in astonishment and then horror as, one after another, outrageous and unverified beliefs have captured the minds of a large proportion of our population. This talk will try to lay out the problem and how we are trying to understand it.

Class Outline

  • The scope of misinformation and a recent history, focusing on vaccines, political and cultural polarization
  • Delusions versus extreme overvalued beliefs
  • Cognitive biases and manipulation
  • Epistemology – how do we know what we know?
  • Our shared reality: treatment and prognosis

Learning objectives

At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

  1. Give examples of conflicting views of reality in America that are having significant consequences for our communities.
  2. Understand the difference between DSM-5 delusions and the concept of extreme overvalued belief.
  3. Be introduced to the problems that arise when we try to determine how we know what we know.
  4. Look at the current challenges in finding common ground for solving social problems.

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Wellness: An ethical responsibility for mental health care providers*

Schedule: 8 a.m.–2:30 p.m. (6 CE hours)
Registration fee: $210
Instructor: Erri Hewett, PhD
Class level: Intermediate to advanced

Class Summary

Identify how provider burnout impacts clinicians and systems. This class reviews the role wellness plays in the ethics and codes of conduct for mental health providers, shares theories and empirical research on burnout and wellness and emphasizes practical applications. Engage in small group discussions and hands-on learning activities and set goals to decrease burnout and enhance wellbeing.

Learning objectives

At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the research on mental health care provider burnout.
  2. Recognize how research on wellness can be applied to provider burnout.
  3. List ways participants are impacted by provider burnout.

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Legal Issues in Ethics and Boundaries for Mental Health: Part I*

Schedule: 10 a.m.–noon (2 CE hours)
Registration fee: $70
Instructor: David Mays, MD, PhD
Class level: Intermediate to advanced

Class Summary

All mental health professional organizations have standards defining ethical practice. In this part I, we will look at the relationship between legislative and professional ethical and practice standards and investigate legal principles including informed consent and right to refuse treatment.

Class Outline

  • Informed consent
  • Right to refuse life-saving treatment, psychiatric medication
  • Physician assisted suicide
  • Involuntary treatment

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the basic components of informed consent and the right to refuse treatment.
  2. Become familiar with forms of physician-assisted suicide.
  3. Understand how the Wisconsin commitment standard has evolved along with national norms.

Legal Issues in Ethics and Boundaries for Mental Health: Part II*

Schedule: 1–3 p.m. (2 CE hours)
Registration fee: $70
Instructor: David Mays, MD, PhD
Class level: Intermediate to advanced

Class Summary

All mental health professional organizations have standards defining ethical practice. In this part II, we will address the relationship between legislative and professional ethical and practice standards and investigate legal principles including confidentiality, Tarasoff standards and conscience clauses.

Class Outline

  • Confidentiality
  • Privacy versus confidentiality
  • Tarasoff
  • Threats and “true threat” doctrine
  • Conscience clauses
  • Boundaries – historical antecedents in mental health

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the basic components of confidentiality and Tarasoff standards.
  2. Describe the difference between a privacy standard and a confidentiality standard.
  3. Describe how conscience clauses may conflict with professional codes of ethics.
  4. Assess themselves for risks of boundary crossings and ask for consultation if necessary.

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Update from the Research: the Bipolar Spectrum, Brain Stimulation, Genetic Testing for Psychopharmacology, Ketamine

Schedule: 10 a.m.–noon. (2 CE hours)
Registration fee: $70
Instructor: David Mays, MD, PhD
Class level: Intermediate to advanced

Class Summary

This presentation will focus on newer, and some older, areas of interest for clinicians (and the presenter!). The topics will be a mix of diagnostics, treatment and technology. Send some questions ahead of time and maybe we can discuss some ideas that are new to everybody.

Class Outline

This class will describe a variety of topics, including the ongoing struggle to characterize the affective disorders, the use of genetics in prescribing medications, transcranial magnetic stimulation in practice and more.

Learning objectives

  1. Describe the arguments for the use of a concept of Bipolar Spectrum.
  2. Be familiar with the latest uses of brain stimulation for mental illnesses.
  3. Understand the limitations of genetic testing for psychopharmacology.

Biological Foundations of Ethics and Boundaries*

Schedule: 1–3 p.m. (2 CE hours)
Registration fee: $70
Instructor: David Mays, MD, PhD
Class level: Intermediate to advanced

Class Summary

Studying ethical behavior leads to some surprising insights, notably, we humans are remarkably similar in the way we construct our moral codes and remarkably inconsistent in how we apply them. We will explore the origins of “ethical” behavior and why we believe some acts are moral and some are not.

Class Outline

  • Contributions of philosophy, economics, political science, psychology and physiology to the study of descriptive ethics
  • Empathy and fairness
  • In group/outgroup
  • Honesty and our “fudge” factor
  • Moral disengagement, money, and privilege
  • Dealing with our cognitive biases

Learning Objectives

At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe several ways that experimental scientists study morality.
  2. Explain the unconscious, yet persuasive nature of making moral choices.
  3. List the five components of the moral mind.
  4. Analyze how individuals disengage from their ethical standards.

* Please keep course confirmation and program agenda to verify ethics and boundaries content.