National Psychology Training Consortium

Course Description and Target Audience
Rural communities continue to experience several shortages in psychological service, due in part to the complicated ethical and clinical situations that emerge in rural communities. In this workshop, we will explore some of the more common ethical concerns that emerge in rural communities, including multiple relationships, confidentiality, and boundaries of competence. Clinical examples based on the presenters' experiences as practitioners and trainers in a rural environment will be used to explore the interaction of ethical and clinical decision-making. The workshop will include didactic and interactive learning experiences, with an emphasis on rural integrated behavioral health care.

The target audience is mental health providers (advanced doctoral-level psychology trainees, psychologists in practice, master’s level clinicians, etc).

There are no known risks to this presentation.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to identify at least three (3) ethical challenges of particular relevance to providing rural behavioral health services. 
• Participants will be able to list at least four (4) ways in which rural settings and social context impact ethical and clinical decision-making.
• Participants will be able to apply clinical judgment and ethical decision-making steps to at least three (3) cases involving confidentiality, multiple relationships, competence, and privacy.

Presenter Information
Cindy Juntunen is a licensed psychologist in North Dakota and the Associate Provost/Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay. During her 22 years on the Counseling Psychology faculty at the University of North Dakota, she taught ethics for 20 years and frequently provides continuing education in ethics for several groups, including workshops at the American Psychological Association. She led rural psychology and integrated care training programs through HRSA-funded Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training and Graduate Psychology Education grants from 2010-2021. She has served as a member of the North Dakota State Board of Psychologist Examiners, and has published in the areas of both rurality and ethics.

Live CE Training Format

CE’s for this live training will be earned by completing the following tasks:

• Attend the live Zoom training in full and review all provided documents in their entirety.
• A program evaluation form will be provided to all who registered following the training. Please be sure to complete this form since your feedback helps direct future CE programming from our organization
   

Registration Cost

This cost includes the video links and materials required to obtain CE’s. Your CE certificate will be made available to you upon completion of the training. 

National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NPTC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.