Compliance Issues
Our Position on Informed Consent
Executive Summary Informed consent is being delivered in a sterile, minimalist manner that satisfies legal teams but does very little to actually inform patients of potential outcomes. We believe the rapid decline in the quality of informed consent is due largely to the verticalization of healthcare which has produced a shift in professional priorities from…
Read MoreWhy Chiles v. Salazar is Important to Mental Health Counselors
Executive Summary-Chiles v. Salazar Your protected 1st Amendment (1A) rights as a citizen travel with you into your professional relationships with your clients. The State cannot tell you what to think (Conscience Protections) or what you can or cannot talk about (Viewpoint Discrimination) in your session room with your patients. The delivery of services you…
Read MoreKathleens Public Comments to BHEC Council June 2026
I’m Kathleen Mills LPC-S and co-founder of AMHP. Kathleens Public Comments to BHEC Council I’m a survivor of the DSHS era regime’s good ol’ boy complaint process. That faith-killing experience has given me a very rich, real world backdrop against which I can confidently evaluate the progress BHEC has made over the last six years. …
Read MorePhillips Public Comments to BHEC Council June 2026
I’m Phillip Crum, Joe Citizen, and co-founder of AMHP. Phillips Public Comments to BHEC Council The last two years have seen positive new additions to all four boards. A renewed devotion to purpose, especially by the public members willing to question the professional members. That’s been extremely encouraging and I hope that trend continues. The…
Read MoreWhat Do We Do About Professional Competency?
Can We Save Professional Competency? Anyone who has been around since before the year 2000 knows that the bar of practice competency in the mental health field is arguably much lower than it was just two decades ago. It’s been slowly and subtly redefined to operate not from a base of replicable, peer-reviewed science to…
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