39th Door County Summer Institute
at the Landmark Resort, Egg Harbor, WI
Greetings to our Summer Institute Registrants!
Welcome to the Thirty-ninth Door County Summer Institute. We have increased our educational offerings by scheduling more two-day sessions. We hope this year’s workshops will encourage you to return to Door County and assist you in your ongoing professional development while providing an opportunity to recharge and reinvigorate yourself. We reserve the right to limit enrollment depending on available room size.
Make sure you are signed up for our email list to be the first to receive updates for this year and future Summer Institutes! You can sign up for our email list by completing this form.
Carlyle H. Chan, MD
Institute Director and Founder
Professor of Psychiatry and the Institute for Health & Humanity (Bioethics and Medical Humanities)
Medical College of Wisconsin
August 7–8, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Rebecca Anderson, PhD, is retired Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Director of Integrated Mental Health in Pain Management Center at MCW. She is the author of over 70 peer reviewed articles, 6 book chapters, and 3 books. She is past Secretary of the WI Examining Board and is currently a board member of WPA. Clinically she was a member of a comprehensive pain management program which encompassed musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, and headaches working with Anesthesia, Neurology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation teams. She utilizes CBT, mindfulness, use of apps, imagery recordings, and biofeedback as part of an integrated approach to address adjustment and improve function and quality of life for patients. She served on the Froedtert Ethics Committee for 9 years and has lectured across the state of WI regarding issues related to Ethics.
Course Description This seminar will cover professional boundaries, confidentiality, and duty to warn/protect cases, as well as emerging ethical issues concerning electronic health records, interstate licensing requirements, social media, virtual therapy in a virtual world and legislative updates. Dr. Anderson will review major ethical issues in mental health practice and will lead discussion including cases from participants. Focus will start with ethical principles, methods for resolution of ethical dilemmas, and then will move to informed consent and to emerging issues in ethics for mental health providers.
Learning Objectives Participants who engage in this education intervention will be able to:
at the Landmark Resort, Egg Harbor, WI
Greetings to our Summer Institute Registrants!
Welcome to the Thirty-ninth Door County Summer Institute. We have increased our educational offerings by scheduling more two-day sessions. We hope this year’s workshops will encourage you to return to Door County and assist you in your ongoing professional development while providing an opportunity to recharge and reinvigorate yourself. We reserve the right to limit enrollment depending on available room size.
Make sure you are signed up for our email list to be the first to receive updates for this year and future Summer Institutes! You can sign up for our email list by completing this form.
Carlyle H. Chan, MD
Institute Director and Founder
Professor of Psychiatry and the Institute for Health & Humanity (Bioethics and Medical Humanities)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Photo taken by Dr. Chan in Ephraim, Door County
August 7–8, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Rebecca Anderson, PhD
Rebecca Anderson, PhD, is retired Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Director of Integrated Mental Health in Pain Management Center at MCW. She is the author of over 70 peer reviewed articles, 6 book chapters, and 3 books. She is past Secretary of the WI Examining Board and is currently a board member of WPA. Clinically she was a member of a comprehensive pain management program which encompassed musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, and headaches working with Anesthesia, Neurology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation teams. She utilizes CBT, mindfulness, use of apps, imagery recordings, and biofeedback as part of an integrated approach to address adjustment and improve function and quality of life for patients. She served on the Froedtert Ethics Committee for 9 years and has lectured across the state of WI regarding issues related to Ethics.
Course Description This seminar will cover professional boundaries, confidentiality, and duty to warn/protect cases, as well as emerging ethical issues concerning electronic health records, interstate licensing requirements, social media, virtual therapy in a virtual world and legislative updates. Dr. Anderson will review major ethical issues in mental health practice and will lead discussion including cases from participants. Focus will start with ethical principles, methods for resolution of ethical dilemmas, and then will move to informed consent and to emerging issues in ethics for mental health providers.
Learning Objectives Participants who engage in this education intervention will be able to:
- Identify ethical issues including ethical principles, methods for resolution, informed consent, and virtual therapy issues.
- Describe ethical issues in professional boundaries, confidentiality, and duty to warn/ protect cases.
- Discuss emerging ethical issues concerning electronic records, interstate licensing requirements, social media, and legislative updates.
- Discuss ethics cases from participants.
- Introduction
- Analyzing and resolving ethical issues
- Ethical principles of psychologists (and others) and code of conduct
- Informed consent
- Special roles of mental health professionals
- Cases for discussion
- Participants will have the opportunity to research ethical guidelines in topics of interest
- Professional boundaries and knowing your limits
- Confidentiality and duty to warn
- Licensure board and sanctions
- Emerging issues
- Electronic records, interstate licensing, new communication technologies, and legislative update
- APA suggestions to avoid ethical problems
- Virtual mental health care
- Cases for discussion from audience (participants will enact serving on an ethics committee)