Fri Nov 14 2025 -
Fri Nov 14 2025
(14 Nov 2025 12:00 PM - 14 Nov 2025 3:00 PM )
Implications for Telepsychology: Managing Therapist Absence Due to Death, Illness or Retirement - Clinical, Ethical and Regulatory Issues
SCT Workshop with Carol Webb
Contact: Kathy Lum
SCTRI is presenting this online group through its Training and Resource Center
| Venue |
CE-Credits |
Track(s) |
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| Virtual |
3.0 |
Clinical |
Open to All Levels |
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Event Details
Dr. Carol Webb, PhD, ABPP
This 3-hour workshop focuses on how the death, illness, or retirement of a therapist impacts the client as well as the therapist, and offers some suggestions about ways to cope with this event. Any rupture of the therapeutic relationship has consequences, whether it is temporary or permanent, planned or unplanned. These consequences will be examined for in-person therapy as well as for telepsychology with both clinical and ethical/regulatory emphases. Since the pandemic began, the use of telepsychology has dramatically increased, and has continued to expand into all areas of the practice of psychology. However, there is scant literature that addresses the implications of the termination of therapy due to the therapist’s absence for telepsychology.
Note: This workshop focuses on ethical decision-making for psychologists in the US though it may be applicable to others. It does not emphasize any particular model, e.g., systems-centered training & therapy (SCT).
When: Fri, Nov 14, 12:00 - 3:00pm ET (synchronous)
[Starting at 9:00am PT, 17:00 UK, 18:00 CET]
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Fee: $80
Zoom link will be sent separately 1 week before the workshop
Continuing Education Information
This workshop offers 3 hours of ethics CE credits related to clinical practice and telepsychology
The Systems-Centered® Training and Research Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SCTRI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Pennsylvania Social Workers: PA-NASW accepts these CEs toward licensing.
Other Professions: Please check with your licensing board to confirm if these CEs are accepted.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the clinical and ethical issues related to death, illness or retirement of a therapist
- Discuss how the death, illness, or retirement of a therapist is managed when using telehealth
- Create a responsible plan for one's practice in the event of a treatment termination due to therapist absence
Presentation Content
The issue of termination of treatment due to therapist absence is one that received considerable attention a number of years ago, particularly within the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic orientations. Recently, however, more attention has been paid to this issue from both the impact on the client and the impact on the therapist. Additionally, while the clinical impact is the most frequent target for discussion, currently there are also ethical and regulatory issues that are addressed. In this workshop both the clinical and the ethical/regulatory impact will be discussed as it applies both to the client and to the therapist. Therapist absence can be due to a number of situations, both planned and unplanned and the differences between these situations will also be addressed. Finally, this workshop will address how these issues are managed within telepsychology. Participants will be encouraged to develop a plan for their practice if and/or when such events occur.
Presenters
Carol Webb PhD, ABPP
Dr. Carol Webb is a clinical psychologist who received her PhD in psychology from the University of Delaware in 1981 and has been licensed to practice in Georgia since 1982. Dr. Webb is primarily retired, although she continues to offer consultation services to Delta Airlines. Previously she was on the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine from 1981-2014 and was the Director of the APA-accredited doctoral internship in psychology at Emory/Grady from 1984-2014. She also had a private practice with Peachtree Psychological Associates where she offered psychotherapy and evaluation services to children, adolescents, adults and couples with a specialty in the area of helping families in transition primarily due to separation and divorce.
Dr. Webb was on the Georgia State Board of Examiners of Psychologists from 2002-2012 and was chair of the Board from 2003-2006. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) from 2007-2013 and was President in 2012. She joined the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) as its Chief Operating Officer in January of 2014 and retired from that position at the end of 2018.
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