Presenter: McNees-Winter Group (PPA's Contract Lobby Firm)

Workshop Description: PPA members are invited to attend PPA's Erie Advocacy CE program and reception with area legislators and/or staffers! This is your chance to influence the process of deciding aspects of how psychology is practiced in Pennsylvania. No room for social loafers here!

PPA's contract lobby firm, McNees-Winter Group, will brief participants on current legislative issues of importance to psychologist on the state level, telepsychology, mental health parity, bills related to interpersonal violence, and relay tips on the legislative process.

Presenter: Samuel J. Knapp, EdD

Advanced Ethical Decision Making: A Scientifically Informed Approach

Program Description: Psychologists encounter many difficult decisions in their professional lives, including how to balance issues of patient autonomy, confidentiality, and boundaries.  Using recent findings from the “science of morality,” this workshop will review present an ethically sound approach to making clinically decisions. Case vignettes will be used, and participant interaction is expected.

Presenter: Samuel J. Knapp, EdD

Problem-Solving Ethics         

Program Description: Often psychologists encounter situations where two or more overarching ethical principles appear to collide and there is no apparent way to resolve them. Using boundary issues as an example, this workshop will use problem-based learning to illustrate how psychologists can use principle-based ethics to think through problems and attempt to resolve them.