Description
Learn how to protect your client, yourself, and the record when working with clients with a mental illness.Whenever you deal with clients, there will be those with mental illness. Some of course, are incompetent and require assistance or a guardian or surrogate. Far more will be quite selfsufficient who are afflicted to various degrees and mostly undiagnosed. They bring to their lawyers a cornucopia of psychological and psychiatric maladies which affect their understanding, judgment, behavior, and even our ability or desire to work with them. They also may bring additional risks associated with their illness. Fortunately, most of our clients’ metal illnesses are minor, and we rely on generalizations and our own experience in diagnosing some of them. Your client was paranoid because she was quick to pay you to make the problem go away but became suspicious of you when the matter dragged on. Your obsessivecompulsivetype client provided you with far more documentation than you needed when you asked but was upset when you didn’t use it ALL at the hearing. In this fastmoving topic you will learn telltale signs of the most common neuroses and psychoses. You will learn to spot the issues particularly the ethical issues that arise when our client’s mental status is amiss. Learn how to advise your client when the client clearly needs help. Learn what you may say, what you must say and what you must not say or do in the circumstance. Learn how to protect your client, yourself, and the record along with your own sanity when dealing with such challenging clients.
Date: 2021-10-06 Start Time: End Time:
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