A New Frontier: Implications for Patient Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools
Training Description: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians scrambled to embrace a technology that only 5 to 10% of them had previously dabbled in—telehealth. Just as many of us felt like we’d achieved at least a moderate level of competency in telehealth, artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as another mysterious, exciting, and—perhaps—concerning technology to have to contend with, creating a slew of relevant questions: Can AI help me write with my clinical documentation? What is the quality of advice my patients are getting from AI-based tools? How do I handle the fact that my students are using AI to write their papers for them? Is it true that some patients are recording their appointments (without the provider’s consent) and then selling those recordings to tech developers who are working on developing AI-powered healthcare bots? This presentation was designed to offer an overview of how AI can (and already has) impacted the addictions field, as well as strategies for ethical and impactful use of AI in addictions treatment. Learning Objectives: Objective 1: Define and describe artificial intelligence (AI) and some of the ways AI has been used as an adjunct to addictions treatment. Objective 2: Identify and describe emerging issues (including benefits and drawbacks) related to the use of AI in addictions treatment. Objective 3: Implement a list of guidelines and strategies for ethical and effective use of AI in addiction treatment. Presenter: Aaron Norton, PhD, LMHC, LMFT, MAC, MCAP, CRC Norton Consulting Services, LLC Dr. Aaron Norton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with certifications in addictions, alcohol and drug counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical mental health counseling, trauma treatment, forensic mental health evaluation, forensic behavioral analysis, and forensic psychometry. He serves as Executive Director of the National Board of Forensic Evaluators, Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Dept. of Mental Health Law & Policy, Southern Regional Director, Ethics Committee Liaison, and International Counseling Task Force Chair for the American Mental Health Counselors Association, and Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association. Dr. Norton has experience infusing artificial intelligence (AI) in both his clinical practice and his instruction as a professor of behavioral healthcare, served on the expert panel that created the standards and written exam for the Florida Certification Board’s Certified Telehealth Practitioner (CTP) credential, and has been published in several journals and professional magazines. He has 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians scrambled to embrace a technology that only 5 to 10% of them had previously dabbled in—telehealth. Just as many of us felt like we’d achieved at least a moderate level of competency in telehealth, artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as another mysterious, exciting, and—perhaps—concerning technology to have to contend with, creating a slew of relevant questions: Can AI help me write with my clinical documentation? What is the quality of advice my patients are getting from AI-based tools? How do I handle the fact that my students are using AI to write their papers for them? Is it true that some patients are recording their appointments (without the provider’s consent) and then selling those recordings to tech developers who are working on developing AI-powered healthcare bots? This presentation was designed to offer an overview of how AI can (and already has) impacted the addictions field, as well as strategies for ethical and impactful use of AI in addictions treatment.
Objective 1: Define and describe artificial intelligence (AI) and some of the ways AI has been used as an adjunct to addictions treatment.
Objective 2: Identify and describe emerging issues (including benefits and drawbacks) related to the use of AI in addictions treatment.
Objective 3: Implement a list of guidelines and strategies for ethical and effective use of AI in addiction treatment.
Aaron Norton, PhD, LMHC, LMFT, MAC, MCAP, CRC
Norton Consulting Services, LLC
Dr. Aaron Norton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with certifications in addictions, alcohol and drug counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical mental health counseling, trauma treatment, forensic mental health evaluation, forensic behavioral analysis, and forensic psychometry. He serves as Executive Director of the National Board of Forensic Evaluators, Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of South Dept. of Mental Health Law & Policy, Southern Regional Director, Ethics Committee Liaison, and International Counseling Task Force Chair for the American Mental Health Counselors Association, and Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association. Dr. Norton has experience infusing artificial intelligence (AI) in both his clinical practice and his instruction as a professor of behavioral healthcare, served on the expert panel that created the standards and written exam for the Florida Certification Board’s Certified Telehealth Practitioner (CTP) credential, and has been published in several journals and professional magazines. He has 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor.
Contact: Valentino Norton Phone No. 727.318.7070 Email: Administrator@FSAM.INFO
Contact: Valentino Norton
Phone No. 727.318.7070
Email: Administrator@FSAM.INFO
