AI-Ready: Balancing Safety and Creativity in Clinical Practice

Description

Clients are already using AI for emotional support, as a sounding board between sessions, sometimes as a stand-in for therapy itself. Most clinicians have no framework for asking about it, let alone assessing whether it's helping or hindering their practice. This session moves the conversation from whether clients are using AI to how, and what that means for clinical practice. Dr. Charmain Jackman will cover current research on client use of generative AI for mental health support, how to build AI use into intake and assessment, and how to distinguish normative use from use that warrants clinical attention, using a harm-reduction lens rather than an abstinence one. We will explore AI tools that offer creative ways of integrating AI in your sessions with clients. Clinicians will leave with concrete intake questions, a working framework for evaluating client AI use, and language for raising the topic in session.

Optional: Where do you stand on AI? Take the free AI-Readiness Quiz before the workshop and come with your profile in hand: https://www.aireadytherapist.com/quiz

Note: If you choose to take the AI-Readiness Quiz, you can click "Skip — just show my results" instead of entering your name and email.

Continuing Education Information

1 CE Credit, Instructional Level: Intermediate

1 Contact Hour (New York Board of Psychology)

Disclosures: Presenter has no conflicts of interest to disclose. Generative AI was not used for the development or content of this presentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe 3 current research findings on client use of generative AI for emotional and mental health support.
2. Select 3-5 questions to apply their client intake and assessment process. client's AI use.
3. Compare normative from clinically concerning AI use and apply a harm-reduction approach when addressing it with clients.

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