Emerging Ethical Challenges Associated with Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Healthcare

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the behavioral health professions. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments; assist people in crisis; document clinical services; strengthen prevention efforts; identify systemic biases in the delivery of behavioral health services; provide professional education and supervision; and predict practitioner burnout and service outcomes, among other uses.

Participants will examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools.

Objectives:

• 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 ethics standards in the behavioral health professions Develop ethics-informed policies and protocols to protect clients and practitioners

Schedule:

9:00 -10:00 Identify the ways in which artificial intelligence is being used in the behavioral health professions
10:00-11:00 Identify ethical issues and challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence and the behavioral health professions
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-1:00 Apply ethic standards in the behavioral health professions. Develop ethics-informed policies and protocols to protect clients and practitioners

About the Speaker:

Frederic Reamer, PhD.

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 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. In 2016 Dr. Reamer was named a Social Work Pioneer by the National Association of Social Workers for his “commitment and dedication to the social work profession and to the improvement of social and human conditions at the local, state, national, and international levels.