Transcript To Google or Not to Google?? Ethics of the Digital Age

Susie Mullens, MS, LPC, ALPS, AADC-S,
Licensed Psychologist
WVAADC, Inc. President
ATARI Project Director
 Review ethical guidelines related on tele-health, social
media and other digital interactions.
 Encourage safe & ethical use of available technologies
to for engagement and service delivery.
 Increase awareness of interacting with clients through
digital media.
 Digital native
 Digital immigrant
 Digital avoidant
 Sherry Turkle Alone Together
 Distance Counseling
 Social Media
 Digital Communication
 Other technologies
 Ch 7 The Counselor & the Law
 Wheeler & Bertram 2012
 E-counseling
 Cybercounseling
 Cybertherapy
 Tele-therapy or tele-medicine
 Computer mediated counseling
 A.12. Technology Applications
 A. benefits & limitations
 B. Technology Assisted Services
 C. Inappropriate Services
 D. Access
 E. Laws & Statutes
 F. Assistance
 G. Technology & Informed Consent
 H. Sites on the World Wide Web
 Code of Professional Ethics for Rehab Counselors
 Section J Technology & Distance Counseling-2010
 ATA- American Telemedicine Association
 www.americantelemed.org
 Telemental Health Institute- Dr. Marlene Maheu
 www.telehealth.org
 Dr. Keeley Kolmes
 www.Drkkolmes.com
 To Google or not to Google???
 To Friend or not to Friend??
 To Tweet or not to Tweet??
 To Blog or not to Blog??
 To “link” or not to link??
 Protect your clients
 Protect yourself
 “Public information” defense
 Boundary violations
 Damage to the therapeutic relationship
 Voyeurism
 “You can’t not know what you know” susieism
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 Our own personal lives & protection
 How many facebook pages can you manage??
 Limitations when we become counselors
 Company policy
 “Don’t put anything on facebook you wouldn’t say in
the Piggly Wiggly”- susieism
 HIPAA
 HI-TECH (health information technology for
economic & clinical health act)
 Implications for covered entities & business associates
of the covered entities
 NBCC – The Practice of Internet Counseling
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www.nbcc.org
Metonia.org
Netlingo.com
SAMHSA- Considerations for the Provision of Etherapy
ISMHO- International Society of Mental Health
Online
ACA www.counseling.org
 “If you think that it is wrong or even suspect that it is
wrong, then don’t do it, doggone it.” Cedarism