Managing Legal and Ethical Risks in Professional Practice

Name: Managing Legal and Ethical Risks in Professional Practice
Start: 2025-08-06T18:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-08-06T18:30:00+10:00

Managing Legal and Ethical Risks in Professional Practice: Proactive Strategies for Therapists and Mental Health Professionals.

No clinician sets out to face legal trouble—but even the most well-meaning professionals can find themselves on the receiving end of a complaint, subpoena, or claim of malpractice. Whether it's a data breach, an error in mandatory reporting, or a misunderstanding that escalates, these challenges often arrive unannounced and can have serious personal, professional, and financial consequences. Managing Legal and Ethical Risks in Professional Practice offers a practical and accessible guide to identifying and minimizing legal vulnerability in therapeutic work. Drawing from real-world cases, this webinar unpacks the legal definitions of negligence, unprofessional conduct, and reasonable care. It demystifies the process of responding to complaints and subpoenas and clarifies the roles of regulatory bodies, insurance providers, and the courts. Most importantly, it equips you with proactive strategies for clinical risk management that support both ethical practice and peace of mind. Designed for therapists, and other allied health professionals, this session will help you build protective frameworks into your everyday operations—so you can keep your focus where it belongs: on helping your clients.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify common legal and ethical risks in therapeutic practice, including complaints, breaches of duty, and subpoenas.
• Distinguish between unprofessional conduct, negligence, and malpractice, and understand the standards for reasonable care.
• Identify types of complaints, investigative bodies and processes, and potential consequences.
• Describe the roles of regulatory bodies and legal processes in managing complaints and professional liability.
• Implement practical clinical and administrative safeguards that reduce exposure to legal consequences and promote ethical practice.

Venue: Live Webinar. (Includes access to video recording for 30 days, excluding clinical video observation content).

Date: Wednesday, 6th August, 2025

Time: 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. (Sydney/Melbourne Time)

Cost: 79.99

CPD Certificate: 2 Hours. CPD certificates are issued to attendees who meet one of the following criteria: attend the live webinar with at least 80% attendance, or watch the webinar recording and complete the associated assessment component.

About Dr Kris Rao: Kris is a psychotherapist & a psychoanalyst primarily providing long term therapy for complex trauma disorders. He is also a clinical supervisor for the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP) training program. He has a Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy) and a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis. Kris teaches ethics & psychodynamic psychotherapy as adjunct faculty at universities and higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand.

About eiseEducation: eiseEducation delivers exceptional webinars, short courses, and professional development training to the mental health, social services & community services sector across Australia & New Zealand. Find out more at eiseeducation.com.

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