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

    2. Quiz: Training Therapists in the Age of AI: Preventing Deskilling and Teaching Clinical Judgment

    3. Evaluation: "Training Therapists in the Age of AI: Preventing Deskilling and Teaching Clinical Judgment" Curt Widhalm, LMFT and Katie Vernoy, LMFT
  • $9.00

Course Description

This workshop explores the shift away from default psychiatric hospitalization for high-risk teens, exploring the potential harms of inpatient care and how outpatient therapists can effectively intervene. This course explores evidence-based de-escalation techniques for private practice settings, the necessity of family-integrated care, and the practical mechanics of building interprofessional wraparound community teams. There is also an examination of the systemic and logistical challenges therapists face, including navigating addressing health disparities in minority and lower socioeconomic communities.


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

  1. Analyze at least three empirically documented iatrogenic harms associated with the inpatient psychiatric hospitalization of adolescents, including post-discharge mortality trends.

  2. Identify and describe the clinical application of at least two standardized risk assessment tools and three non-pharmacological de-escalation techniques suitable for outpatient settings.

  3. Design an interprofessional, community-based wraparound team for a high-risk adolescent in a private practice setting, identifying the specific roles of formal professionals and informal natural supports.

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.