Event Details

USC CAIS Seminar with Dr. Frederic Reamer

Wed, Oct 16, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Dr. Frederic Reamer, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work - Rhode Island College

Talk Title: USC CAIS Seminar with Dr. Frederic Reamer

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the behavioral health professions. AI is being used to conduct client risk assessments; assist people in crisis; strengthen prevention efforts; document clinical services; identify systemic biases in the delivery of services; provide professional education and clinical supervision; and predict practitioner burnout and service outcomes, among other uses.
This webinar will examine cutting-edge ethical issues related to behavioral health practitioners’ use of AI; apply relevant ethical standards; and outline key elements of a strategy for practitioners’ ethical use of AI. Join Dr. Frederic Reamer as he examines ethical issues and risks related to informed consent and client autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; transparency; potential client misdiagnosis; client abandonment; client surveillance; plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, and misrepresentation; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and use of evidence-based AI tools.
 
 
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.    
 
Register for Zoom webinar: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DC48EaIORMy9ePEE86IGiA

Biography: Frederic G. Reamer has been on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College since 1983.  His research and teaching have addressed a wide range of human service issues, including mental health, health care, criminal justice, public welfare, and professional ethics. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. (social work) from the University of Chicago.  He has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings.
 
He serves as Associate Editor of the National Association of Social Workers Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford University Press and National Association of Social Workers). Since 2012, Dr. Reamer has served as the ethics instructor in the Providence (RI) Police Department Training Academy. Dr. Reamer has conducted extensive research on professional ethics. He has published 25 books and more than 190 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles.
 
Dr. Reamer is the recipient of awards such as the NASW Mit Joyner Presidential Award, NASW Social Work Pioneer Award, and NASW Excellence in Ethics Award.

Host: CAIS

More Info: https://cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cais-seminar-with-dr-frederic-reamer/

Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DC48EaIORMy9ePEE86IGiA