Artificial Intelligence

in the Behavioral Health Professions:

Ethical and Risk Management Challenges

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Friday, May 1, 2026

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TIME: 9am-12pm

LOCATION: Live Webinar

CREDITS: 3     

APPROVALS: ACE, APA, NBCC, NYSED (LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, Psychologists), OASAS

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Frederic Reamer

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This program is appropriate for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced mental health clinicians.

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OVERVIEW: Artificial intelligence is transforming behavioral healthcare. Today’s practitioners are using AI to assist clients, provide clinical supervision and education, predict practitioner burnout and outcomes, document clinical encounters, and complete administrative tasks, among other uses. Along with these innovations come significant ethical and risk management challenges. This training offers a state-of-the-art, timely, comprehensive, and practical guide for navigating the ethical complexities of AI and related risk-management issues. Join Dr. Frederic Reamer as he explores these timely issues.

 

SUMMARY: Artificial intelligence is transforming behavioral healthcare. Today’s practitioners are using AI to assist clients, provide clinical supervision and education, predict practitioner burnout and outcomes, document clinical encounters, and complete administrative tasks, among other uses. Along with these innovations come significant ethical and risk management challenges. This training offers a state-of-the-art, timely, comprehensive, and practical guide for navigating the ethical complexities of AI and related risk-management issues.​Dr. Frederic Reamer will provide a comprehensive overview of key ethical and risk management challenges associated with the use of AI in behavioral healthcare. The presenter will discuss (1) the ways in which AI is being use in behavioral healthcare, (2) core ethical issues, (3) potential risks to clients, practitioners, and employers, (4) emerging ethical standards related to the use of AI in behavioral healthcare, and (5) practical ethics-informed risk management protocols designed to protect clients, practitioners, supervisors, and employers.

 

LEARNING OBECTIVES:

Identify the ways in which artificial intelligence is being used in the behavioral health professions. Identify ethical issues and challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence in the behavioral health professions. Apply pertinent ethical standards from behavioral health professions’ codes of ethics. Develop ethics-informed policies and protocols to protect clients and practitioners. ​

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SPEAKER: Frederic Reamer has been on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College since 1983. His teaching and research focus on professional ethics, criminal justice, mental health, health care, and public policy. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He chaired the national task force that wrote the Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers and served on the code revision task force. Dr. Reamer also chaired the national task force sponsored by NASW, the Association of Social Work Boards, Council on Social Work Education, and Clinical Social Work Association that developed standards governing social workers’ use of technology in professional practice. He has lectured nationally and internationally on social work and professional ethics, including in India, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and in various European nations. His books include Artificial Intelligence in the Behavioral Health Professions: Ethical and Risk Management Issues; Risk Management in the Behavioral Health Professions: A Practical Guide to Preventing Malpractice and Licensing-Board Complaints; The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work; Social Work Values and Ethics; Risk Management in Social Work; The Social Work Ethics Casebook; Ethical Standards in Social Work; Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services; Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Social Work; Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services; Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes, and Consequences; On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice: and The Social Work Ethics Audit, among others. Dr. Reamer has served as an expert witness in many court and licensing board cases throughout the United States.