Ethics & Law Update - 2019
Sat, Feb 09
|Johnson City Medical Center
Come hear Dr. Tom Schacht provide an update on recent legal developments that affect the practice of psychology.


Time & Location
Feb 09, 2019, 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Johnson City Medical Center, 400 N State of Franklin Rd, Johnson City, TN 37604, USA
Guests
About The Event
Meet the Presenter:
Dr. Schacht was raised in a private institution for developmentally disabled children operated by his family. This helps to explain his lifetime struggle to figure out what it means to be normal. He is a high school drop-out who lacked the courage to pursue a career in music, and so became a psychologist instead, although he did manage to persuade some decent professional programs to take him in (Rutgers, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Vanderbilt). Dr. Schacht's dissertation was in neuropsychology; his internship and clinical post-dco were in medical and neuropsychology and developmental disabilities, and then he started an academic career in psychotherapy research. Much later he transitioned to a focus on forensic practice in self-defense against internal and external forces of bureaucracy. Dr. Schacht is ABPP-certified in both clinical and forensic psychology. After spending 31 years on the faculty at ETSU's Quillen College of Medicine, h…