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Friday, November 14, 2025
Confidentiality and Privilege in Psychotherapy with Minors
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 11:30AM-1:00PM
Location: Live Webinar
Credits: 1.5 CEs (NYS LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, Psychologists)
Instructor: Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD, Attorney and Counselor at Law
Cost: $59 Individual Rate
DESCRIPTION:
Topics to be discussed include: informed consent, minors and the necessity of parental involvement; reporting child abuse and neglect, limits of the mandate, and crimes against children; the SAFE Act and reporting of dangerousness; access to minors’ records by parents and third parties; involvement in family legal matters and the role of the treating therapist/fact-witness.
Objective 1: Participants will be able to describe the legal issues involved in the confidentiality of treatment information of minor patients.
Objective 2: Participants will learn, analyze and apply risk management principles consistent with best practices involved in confidentiality of treatment information of minors.
This program is NYS-specific, and is appropriate for all NYS Mental Health Clinicians.
Speaker: Bruce Hillowe, JD, PhD
Bruce V. Hillowe, J.D, Ph.D. is a mental healthcare attorney with a law practice in Mineola, New York. A graduate of Binghamton University, Duke University School of Law, and Adelphi University Derner Institute (Clinical Psychology and Postdoctoral Programs), he formerly practiced as a psychologist-psychoanalyst, including as a coordinator of clinical training and a director of a forensic mental health service. He was a teaching attending psychologist in law and ethics at a major teaching hospital for 15 years. He currently teaches courses in ethics and law as adjunct faculty at the Derner Institute. He is legal counsel to numerous mental health facilities, institutes, and practitioners, and sponsors legal plans for professional associations. He has written articles and book chapters including for law reviews and healthcare publications, most recently regarding scope of practice and disciplinary defense. He is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in healthcare law and is a "SuperLawyer" featured in the New York Times Magazine.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
CSLI is not aware of any conflict(s) of interest in relation to this program.
Moreover, CSLI is not aware of additional commercial support for this program.