ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Psychology: An Overview from a Clinical Research Perspective

Originally recorded on October 24, 2024
  • 3 Hours
  • 1 Evaluation
  • Free
  • Popular
  • Beginner To Advanced
  • English
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overview
Artificial intelligence is reshaping clinical psychology through tools for understanding, detecting, and treating mental health disorders.

This webinar explores discriminative and generative AI applications, alongside key ethical challenges such as privacy, bias, accuracy, and the risks of autonomous therapeutic systems.
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Certification included
This webinar is eligible for 3 Continuing Education (CE) Credits on behalf of the Canadian Psychological Association.
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
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After watching the full webinar, learners must complete and pass an evaluation quiz to receive CE credits.
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping clinical psychology. Dr. Stéphane Bouchard examines two key AI approaches, discriminative AI for understanding, detecting, and treating mental health disorders, and generative AI for virtual patients and psychotherapists.

Drawing on peer-reviewed research, this webinar explores current applications alongside critical ethical issues, including data privacy, bias, accuracy, digital identity, social presence, and the risks of autonomous therapeutic systems.
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 Differentiate between discriminative and generative AI and explain how each is applied in clinical psychology for understanding, detecting, preventing, and treating mental health disorders.
 Evaluate current peer-reviewed applications of AI in clinical psychology to identify their potential benefits and limitations.
 Analyze ethical concerns related to discriminative AI, including data privacy, feature weighting, digital identity protection, and the effects on diverse psychological disorders.
 Assess the ethical challenges associated with generative AI, such as inaccuracies, social bias, autonomous virtual psychotherapists, content modulation, and the risk of user addiction.
 Examine the roles of social presence and anthropomorphism in AI tools and discuss their broader implications for clinical practice and professional responsibility in psychology.
MEET THE SPEAKER

Dr. Stéphane Bouchard

Dr. Stéphane Bouchard is a professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais and former chairholder (21 years) of the Canada Research Chair in Clinical Cyberpsychology. A scientist-practitioner, his work focuses on developing and rigorously testing virtual reality and telepsychotherapy interventions for anxiety, addiction, and related mental disorders.

Since 1999, he has led randomized controlled trials on in-virtuo exposure and videoconference-based cognitive-behavioural therapy. His lab houses Psyche, the world’s only six-sided immersive VR system dedicated to mental health research. A prolific and influential scholar, his work has been cited over 10,000 times and he received the Prix Adrien Pinard in 2014.

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