1. Please listen to the episode carefully before you take the quiz and do the course evaluation.

    2. Quiz: AI Ethics Codes for Therapists: What CAMFT, APA, NASW, and AAMFT Now Require

    3. Evaluation: "AI Ethics Codes for Therapists: What CAMFT, APA, NASW, and AAMFT Now Require" Curt Widhalm, LMFT and Katie Vernoy, LMFT
  • $9.00

Course Description

As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the mental health landscape, this workshop takes an in-depth look at the recent updates to the CAMFT Code of Ethics, establishing critical guardrails for AI. To ensure a comprehensive professional overview, this workshop cross-references evolving digital standards from the APA, NASW, ACA, and AAMFT codes. Beyond mere compliance, the course explores how these updates serve as a practical roadmap for maintaining human accountability in an automated world. Whether you are a frontline therapist or a clinical supervisor, this course provides actionable frameworks to safely guide therapists’ practice, documentation, and oversight. 


Learning objectives: Participants in this workshop will be able to:

  1. Analyze the recent updates to Section 6 of the CAMFT Code of Ethics regarding telehealth, technology, and artificial intelligence, and cross-reference these standards with parallel digital evolutions in the APA, NASW, ACA, and AAMFT codes.

  2. Evaluate the ethical risks, benefits, and practical implications of incorporating AI tools (such as AI scribes, clinical documentation assistants, and chatbots) into daily practice, with a specific focus on maintaining human accountability, safeguarding client privacy, and mitigating algorithmic bias.

  3. Develop a practical framework for clinical implementation and supervisory oversight to ensure both therapists and supervisees can responsibly navigate, document, and monitor the use of emerging technologies while upholding strict standards of informed consent and professional boundaries.

Instructors

Curt Widhalm

LMFT

Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) ethics committee, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, lecturer in Counseling Laws and Ethics at California State University Northridge, a former Law & Ethics Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and former CFO of CAMFT. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com

Katie Vernoy

LMFT

Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Theater from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Katie’s experience spans many leadership and management roles in the mental health field since getting her license in 2005: program coordinator, director, clinical supervisor, hiring manager, recruiter, and former President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com

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Continuing Education Information

CAMFT CEPA

Therapy Reimagined is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs (CAMFT CEPA provider #132270). Therapy Reimagined maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Courses meet the qualifications for the listed hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. We are working on additional provider approvals, but solely are able to provide CAMFT CEs at this time. Please check with your licensing body to ensure that they will accept this as an equivalent.