Navigating Ethical Challenges Arising from Mental Health Treatment Scarcity
The purpose of this educational activity is to enable participants to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas surrounding mental health treatment scarcity.
Target Audience
ISD Clinical Staff
Learning Objectives
RN & SW Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the root historical and systemic causes which have contributed to our current mental health crisis
- Identify ethical dilemmas which arise due to mental health treatment scarcity
- Examine ethical dilemmas in ways that result in better mental health care delivery and decreased provider moral distress
Pharmacy Learning Objectives:
- Reflect on personal ability to identify ethical dilemmas surrounding mental health treatment
- Discuss potential strategies to resolve ethical dilemmas and improve the delivery of care in the mental health treatment settings
Program begins at 10:00am and ends at 11:00am. Total Education Time = 1 Hour(s) | ||
TIME | CONTENT | PRESENTER |
10:00 am – 10:20 am | Historical and systemic causes which have contributed to our current mental health crisis | Michael Redinger, MD, MA |
10:20 am – 10:40 am | Ethical dilemmas which arise due to mental health treatment scarcity | Michael Redinger, MD, MA |
10:40 am – 11:00 am | Resolution of ethical dilemmas in ways that result in better mental health care delivery and decreased provider moral distress | Michael Redinger, MD, MA |
His myriad of research interests include clinical ethics, psychiatric ethics, religion, and medicine, Catholic health care ethics, and medical professionalism. He has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, CHEST, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The American Journal of Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, as well as popular media including The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, America: The Jesuit Review, and Commonwealth magazine.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
CCM CE will be provided: 1 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.
This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics. Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 1 CE credit(s).
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit(s).
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
NOTE: Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved. This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 ASWB
- 1.00 Attendance