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Workshop 1: Ethical Challenges in Long-term Care Settings
Friday, August 13, 2021, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Category: In-Person Continuing Education Event

August 13, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Workshop 1: Ethical Challenges in Long-term Care Settings, 1.5 CE
This workshop is part 1 of a 2-part series. Information on part 2 can be found by clicking here.

Presented by Suzanne Meeks, Ph.D.

Organized by the ethical principles that form the foundation of standards for ethical practice of psychology, this workshop will address common ethical challenges that arise in long-term care settings. I will provide a framework for ethical decision-making for us to use to work through at least one case example, and emphasize positive ethical practice for preventing foreseeable ethical dilemmas. Skill Level: Beginning This workshop fulfills 1.5 of the 3 hours necessary according to the KRS 319 ethics/risk management requirement for psychology professionals.

Workshop Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify common ethical challenges that a clinician might encounter in long-term-care settings.
  • Identify the most important ethical principles and the conflicts among them, that can be applied to each common dilemma.
  • Apply an ethical decision-making framework to a specific dilemma in long-term care.
  • Describe how positive ethics practices can help to minimize ethical challenges in long-term care.

About the Presenter:

Suzanne Meeks, Ph.D. received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Catholic University of America. She completed an NIH-sponsored post-doctoral research fellowship at Indiana University, focused on Geropsychology. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville, where she has been since she started as an Assistant Professor in 1987. She served her Department as Director of Clinical Training from 1995-2000, as Vice Chair from 2007-2009, and as Department Chair from 2009 to 2019. Her research interests have broadly covered psychopathology and well-being in late life, and she has spent much of the last two decades developing and refining an intervention for depression in nursing home residents called BE-ACTIV. Her work has been published in such journals as Psychology and Aging, Journals of Gerontology (Series B), Aging and Mental Health, and The Gerontologist. She has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Kindred Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently she is collaborating with researchers at the Providence VA and elsewhere to implement a VA version of BE-ACTIV in Community Living Centers (VA nursing homes). At U of L, Dr. Meeks teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to clinical psychology and aging. She was the 2008 President of the Society of Clinical Geropsychology, and is a member of American Psychological Association Divisions 12 & 20, Psychologists in Long Term Care (PLTC), and the Kentucky Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America. She won the 2012 PLTC award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychology in Long Term Care. Dr. Meeks is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Gerontologist; she served as Associate Editor of that journal from 2014-2018, has served on the editorial board of the Clinical Gerontologist, and has been a frequent grant reviewer for the NIMH.

 Audience

This workshop is appropriate for Psychologists, Social Workers, Other Mental Health Professionals


Registration Fees

Registrant Type

Part 1

Part 2

Full
Series

KPA Member $50 $50 $90
Non-KPA Member $75 $75 $150
Student Member+
(no CE credit)
$15 $15 $30

  +Any student member needing CE credit must register at the KPA member rate. 

Cancellation Policy:

8-13-2021 Event: Cancellations received on/before April 12, 2021, will receive a 90% refund. No refunds available after April 13, 2021. All refund requests must be in writing to KPA, 8004 Lyndon Centre Way, Suite 202, Louisville, KY 40222, or [email protected].

8-20-2021 Event: Cancellations received on/before April 19, 2021, will receive a 90% refund. No refunds available after April 13, 2021. All refund requests must be in writing to KPA, 8004 Lyndon Centre Way, Suite 202, Louisville, KY 40222, or [email protected].


This program has been approved for 1.5 CE credits by the Kentucky Psychological Association (KPA).

It is important to note that APA continuing education rules require that KPA only give credit to those who attend the entire workshop.  An evaluation of the workshop must be completed. Those who arrive more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or disconnect before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credit. Partial credit may not be given.

Psychologists: 
KPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. KPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. KPA is also an approved sponsor for the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology.  

Social Workers & Art Therapists: 
KPA is an approved sponsor for the Kentucky Board of Social Work, the Kentucky Board of Professional Art Therapists. (Provider #1004)

Pastoral Counselors:
KPA is approved to offer Continuing Education to Pastoral Counselors as stated in 201 KAR 38:070, Section 3(1)(b) as an approved KBEP provider.

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