Consultation

We provide consultation on ethical and ethical/legal issues
for practice groups and agencies, or on an individual basis.
We offer the following types of consultation:

CASE CONSULTATION:
You provide the subject matter by asking us to help you consider
how to make ethical decisions about a specific case or
how to resolve a specific ethical or ethical/legal dilemma.

ISSUE-CENTERED CONSULTATION:
This is "preventive" consultation rather than "crisis" consultation.
The issue you present may be real or hypothetical, broad or specific.
For example, you might request consultation by raising
ethical and ethical/legal questions such as:
What should I do if I receive a subpoena for patient records?
What am I ethically required to tell patients at the intake interview?
Must I give patients a written statement about the limits of confidentiality?
Do I have options when Virginia law requires me to report something?
What are my ethical obligations if I retire or close my practice?

CONSULTEE-CENTERED CONSULTATION:
We can help you or your group
reflect on your own policies and practice issues
by asking you to consider tough questions such as:
Am I causing this particular ethical issue to arise so often in my practice?
If so, how am I "inviting this trouble" - and why?
If not, given the recurring problem, why am I not already better prepared?
Either way, how can I respond most ethically in the future?

PRACTICE-SPECIFIC or ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTATION:
For group practices, or in agency settings, we can focus on
problems specific to your practice/agency
and/or help your group or team problem-solve about
policies and decisions specific to your practice or your agency:
If we change certain policies, what might be the ethical and legal consequences?
How can we better personalize our intake conversation about limits of confidentiality?
How should we prepare in advance for responding to legal demands for disclosure?
Are we responding ethically to the demands of managed care in our practice?