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    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
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Course Description

As Artificial Intelligence integrates into mental health services, clinicians face the subtle risk of professional deskilling. This course explores the competence paradox where automated outputs mask a decline in a therapist's cognitive scaffolding and clinical reasoning. We will examine how systemic pressures and insurance models incentivize efficiency over expertise, potentially eroding core skills. Participants will learn to identify algorithmic hallucinations and apply the principles of desirable difficulty to their workflow. By utilizing strategies like naked practice, therapists can ensure that AI remains a supportive tool rather than a replacement for vital clinical intuition and judgment.


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

  1. Identify how systemic forces incentivize therapist deskilling through the use of AI

  2. Identify and mitigate the competence paradox to maintain clinical literacy

  3. Implement three strategies for learner skill retention and cognitive scaffolding

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.