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Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychologists
May 20, 2012
1:00pm to 4:00pm. Registration at 12:30
3 CE hours

Sponsored by
Santa Clara County Psychological Association
Location-Palo Alto University
5150 El Camino, Suite 22, Bldg C
Los Altos, CA

Course Description:
The Internet and social media are offering a number of new clinical and ethical challenges for those who provide face-to-face mental health services. These challenges include extra-therapeutic contacts between therapists and their clients, questions about what distinguishes personal from professional activities online, and a lack of clearly developed policies related to our online behaviors and interactions.

This course offers an introduction to digital ethics and to various social networking sites and activities. It provides guidelines for anticipating and managing the problems that may arise for practitioners who are using these sites. Applicable ethical standards will be addressed. The instructor will incorporate vignettes and encourage discussion to address the different ways clinicians are addressing these issues.

Learning objectives:
• Describe social media and summarize several popular social media sites and services.
• Distinguish between one’s personal and professional activities on the Internet.
• Identify the ethical challenges that may arise from engaging in activities on the Internet.
• Construct a social media policy for one’s office to address potential boundary issues with clients.

Presenter’s Bio:

Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, CA. She serves as Director of Digital Communication for APA Division 42, Psychologists in Independent practice. Dr. Kolmes writes, does research, and provides consultation and training on clinical and ethical issues related to social networking and technology. Her Private Practice Social Media Policy has been frequently cited and is a recommended sample document for clinicians by the APA Insurance Trust. She has published a New York Times Op-Ed on the challenge of consumer reviews of mental health services. Her professional website is www.drkkolmes.com where she keeps her blog, Mindful Musings: www.drkkolmes.com/blog. She can also be found on Twitter as @drkkolmes

CPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SCCPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Thanks to everyone who came and asked great questions!

Check out the audio from my segment of our presentation:

My slide:

You can also hear the full audio here, and view the Storify tweets below.

Tweets from SXSW session WARNING: Are Online Reviews Bad for Your Health?

Session moderated by Cindy Cohn, Legal Director of EFF. Panelists: Jeffrey Segal, CEO of Medical Justice, Dr. Keely Kolmes, SF Psychologist in private practice, and Vince Sollito, VP at Yelp.

Storified by Dr. Keely Kolmes · Mon, Mar 12 2012 14:21:29

This year, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Susan Giurleo, Ph.D., who led a Core Conversation on Improving Mental Health Through Engaged Communities, and Pamela Rutledge, Ph.D., a media psychologist, who was on the panel Can the Internet Make Us Happy? (as an added perk, you can listen to the audio of this session on the link).

I had two complaints about the formatting of the programming (which I will frame in the form of wishes). First, I hope that future health track panels will not be segregated to a separate campus. This made it more difficult to cross-pollinate with attendees and dip into sessions from other disciplines without committing to a dash to a different venue. Second, I hope that we have larger rooms next year for the health track. I assume that there are many SXSW attendees who might be interested in checking out the health panels but running to different campuses made it somewhat prohibitive for some. It also seemed to assume we only wanted to meet amongst ourselves which may not be accurate.

My session was called Patients/Caregivers on Facebook: Establishing Boundaries Without Barriers. It was organized and moderated by Ed Bennett, Director of Web Strategy at University of Maryland Medical System. We had several fantastic panelists: Jen Dyer, MD, MPH from Ohio State University, Dana Lewis, Interactive Marketing Specialist, and Dan Goldman, who provides legal counsel at Mayo Clinic. I want to thank everyone who came out to see our session (at 9:30am on Daylight Savings Sunday, no less!) and who helped make it dynamic and engaging both in the room, and on twitter. I hope to see you all next year!

Susan Spaight posted a lovely summary of our presentation.

Dana also posted a great recap of the lively twitterfeed of our panel which I’ve embedded below. Please give it a moment to load.

Related posts about this year’s Health track at SXSW:

• Ed Bennett’s blog post about our session
• John Grohol’s summary of psychologists at SXSW this year
• Reed Smith’s post 3 Reasons SXSW Can Change Social Health
• #SXSWH, the SXSWi Health Tweet feed
• Pamela Rutledge’s wrap-up on Psychology Today
• Tracy DiMarino’s summary of our session on PR 20/20

My newsletter is the best way to keep informed about my upcoming articles, presentations, and continuing education offerings.

While I will continue to blog on topics of interest, I won’t be regularly posting upcoming speaking events or published professional articles on my blog.

The newsletter will be sent infrequently: about 4 times a year.

I hope you will subscribe!

You can also subscribe from my website, where you will find the signup form under my contact information.

I will be facilitating a Singles Salon for bisexual and lesbian women in San Francisco with HersnHers Connexions and Betty’s List in the coming months. Read more for details:

Talking About Dating, Relationships, Sex and Romance

A Salon Series from Hers & Hers Connexions

Dr. Keely Kolmes, Facilitator

When

Sunday Afternoons, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
May 16th, June 20th, July 11th, and August 22nd

Where

Castro Neighborhood Location in San Francisco

Topics

- Flirting & Making Connexions
- First Dates
- Managing Multiples & Monogamy / Sex & Singlehood
- Dating Deal-breakers, Deal-sealers, and Matches That Make It

Registration Information & Cost

$40 Per Session – Registration Required
Call the “Betty’s List” office line 415-503-1375 to schedule one or more sessions. Each is limited in size.

Salon participants will meet once-per-month for a free-flowing facilitated conversation on being Single that provides the chance to talk, listen, learn and explore a key life experience. Single life comes easily for some but is a challenge for others.

Come share your dating experiences, learn and be supported in your journey. Sessions begin with informal mingling, followed by the facilitated discussion.

Option to bring food or beverage to share.

**Please note that this is not a psychotherapy, support, or counseling group.**

Please be aware of my upcoming training. And feel free to share the following announcement with anyone you think might be interested!

SFCP Community Members’ Professional Development Salon

The Web 2.0 Psychotherapist: The Therapeutic Relationship and Social Media

Some clinicians are hesitant about having a personal social media presence (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) but are beginning to explore having a professional social media presence for their psychotherapy practices. The current APA Ethics Code does not explicitly address our activities on the Internet. What does it mean to be “transparent” using social media as a clinician? How might it influence one’s clinical work? What boundary issues do clinicians need to be aware of when they create an online social media presence? What happens when clinicians and clients cross paths in online spaces? Lastly, how can we think about this analytically and bring these new experiences of the relationship into the work?

Speaker:
Keely Kolmes, Psy.D., Dr. Kolmes is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco who writes and speaks on the intersection of clinical care and social media.

Discussant:
Robert L. Friend, M.D., SFCP Member and Faculty

Moderator: Renée Spencer, M.F.T., SFCP Community Membership Co-Chair

Preparation
In preparation for the Salon, Dr. Kolmes suggests that attendees use Google or another search engine to search for yourself. Please use quotation marks around your name and search for yourself in various formats depending upon names you use on the Internet. For example, she would do the following searches on herself:
“Keely Kolmes”
“Keely Kolmes, Psy.D.”
“Dr. Keely Kolmes”
“drkkolmes”

Thursday, April 8, 2010
7:30 to 9 PM
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
2340 Jackson Street, 4th floor Auditorium
San Francisco

Registration & Fees
This series is free to SFCP members, candidates, and community members. For others, the cost is $35 per meeting payable at the door. Attendance at the previous salons is not required.  Prior salons were recorded on DVD and can be borrowed from the library.  Pre-registration is encouraged but not required. RSVP to 415-563-5815 or to finance [at] sf-cp.org.

1.5 CME/CE credits (pending) for $15.00

The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

PHYSICIANS: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 credits as listed for each individual program, AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a provider approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider Number PCE623, for 1.5 credits on an hour for hour basis.

PSYCHOLOGISTS: Psychologists attending SFCP events approved for CME credits may report AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) toward their CE requirements and are now able to directly submit their verification letters at the end of each renewal cycle using the MCEP credit reporting form that can be found on the internet at: http://www.cpapsych.org/associations/6414/files/mcepaa/files/MCEP_Reporting_Form.pdf

REGISTERED NURSES: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 02677, on an hour for hour basis.

SFCP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SFCP maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Course Objectives:
1) Participants will develop a basic knowledge of Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and blogging and how they might be used as an adjunct to one’s practice.
2) Participants will learn how the current APA Ethics Code may be applied to Internet activities.
3) Participants will have the opportunity to engage in discussion about clinical boundaries and the potential impact of both therapist and client encountering one another out-of-session in online spaces.

Commercial Support: None

Faculty Disclosure: The following moderators and planning committee members have disclosed NO financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies who have provided products or services, relating presentation(s) or commercial support for this continuing medical education activity: Keely Kolmes, Psy.D., Robert Friend, M.D. and Renee Spencer, M.F.T. All conflicts of interest have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support.

It will now be taking place at Aquarium of the Bay @ Pier 39 – in the Farallon Room.

This event offers a fun, relaxed way for single women to connect and get to know one another. You may even learn a bit about yourself in dating and relationships. I’ll be offering dating tips for singles and facilitating small group activities.

Please come!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM – Arrival
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Mingle Walk Through the Aquarium
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Welcome Activity with Roke Noir
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM  – Interactive Discussion and break out groups with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. and Roke Noir
8:30 PM – Break
9:00 PM – Singles Party & Dance with Finding Stella Band
Hard Rock Café @ Pier 39

You can find out more details and still get tickets on Betty’s page.

I hope to see you there.

I will give my Dating Tips for Singles and will facilitate small group activities that will help folks relax and easily get to know one another.

This event is for single women of all ages and my interactive part of the evening will be followed by dancing with lesbian rock band Finding Stella.

Please join us!

Saturday, February 6th
5:30 PM – 11:00 PM

Find out more and buy your tickets now, on Betty’s website.

The program includes:

- Single Exchange Sessions – Mingle & Interactive: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

- Break & Reset: 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Hotel Adagio
16th Floor Roof * Siena & Seville Rooms
550 Geary Street (between Taylor & Jones)
San Francisco

You can also look forward to the spring when Betty and I will be putting together an exciting series of Singles Salons for queer women.

More details to come!

I will be joined by James Lyda, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist at the Tang Center at UC Berkeley, who will present a morning segment on research on Facebook and on college students’ usage of social networking sites. I’m very excited about this training and about hearing about the clinical issues that Training Directors and interns are encountering.

The outline and schedule are below:

Northern California Training Directors Conference

Clinical and Ethical Issues Related to Social Networking and College Mental Health

October 23, 2009

9:00am – 3:00pm

This training focuses on Web 2.0 social networking and its relevance to college mental health. Clinicians will learn how students are using the Internet and what related issues they may be bringing into treatment. We will also cover clinicians’ personal and professional online presence and how this may intersect with their clinical role. We will also discuss related clinical, legal, and ethical issues as they come up in social networking and  college mental health.

II. The Google Factor

II. Research on College Students’ Usage of Social Networking Sites

III. Facebook, Friending, and Privacy Settings

BREAK

IV.  Overview of Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, FriendFeed, Foursquare, LinkedIn and other sites

V. Blogging, RSS feeds, and personal ads

VI.  Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues as they relate to the Internet and social networking

VII. Discussion

LUNCH

VIII. Small Group Breakouts with Clinical Vignettes

IX. Larger discussion of Vignettes

X. Completion of Paperwork and Surveys

]]> http://drkkolmes.com/2009/10/18/my-continuing-education-training-clinical-and-ethical-issues-related-to-social-networking-and-college-mental-health/feed/ 1 http://drkkolmes.com/2009/07/20/smart-women-business-networking-event-july-29-san-francisco/ http://drkkolmes.com/2009/07/20/smart-women-business-networking-event-july-29-san-francisco/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:55:07 +0000 drkkolmes http://drkkolmes.com/blog/?p=894 I will be the featured guest at Betty Sullivan’s next Smart Women Business Networking event on Wednesday, July 29th at Catch Restaurant, 2362 Market Street, in San Francisco. The event is from 5:30 – 7:30.

Smart Women provides a space for women in business and their friends to gather, socialize, and share business ideas while enjoying drinks and appetizers. It’s relaxed and friendly, and it’s a great place to make personal and professional connections. Most of the attendees are subscribers and contacts of “Betty’s List,” an online information service for the San Francisco Bay Area’s LGBT community.

I will speak briefly about my psychotherapy practice and current projects and I will answer your questions. I will also lead the “Shout Out!” activity in which each attendee has the chance to introduce herself and her business.

The event is free to members of the Betty’s List directory and non-members can attend for $10.00. If you want to meet other business women, you want to know more about psychotherapy, or you just wanted to meet me, please come out and join us.

I’m looking forward to meeting you!