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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in the field of behavioral health in clinical, administrative, advocacy, policy, and educational settings. Behavioral health practitioners are using AI to provide and document clinical services, predict clinical outcomes, empower clients to self-monitor, provide crisis intervention, supervise clinicians, detect plagiarism, and write grant applications.

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Alongside these advances, the use of AI ushers in a new era of ethical issues and risk management threats. Ethical practice requires that behavioral health professionals address key AI-related challenges, including AI’s impact on informed consent; privacy and confidentiality; client surveillance; transparency; clinical errors; algorithmic bias and unfairness; and plagiarism, fraud, dishonesty, and misrepresentation.

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Rather than being overwhelmed by these fast-moving developments, Artificial Intelligence in the Behavioral Health Professions invites you to be informed. A foremost expert in ethics, Reamer uses real-world examples and dozens of case studies to provide insights into the ways in which behavioral health professionals are using AI, the associated ethical and risk management issues, protocols for ethical use of AI, and state-of-the-art strategies that will protect clients and practitioners alike.

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Whether you enthusiastically embrace AI or are wary of its dangers, this technology is here to stay. As with any cutting-edge innovation, it will take time to fully comprehend both its opportunities and its pitfalls. At the very least, behavioral health practitioners must be active participants in these ongoing efforts and dialogues and be cognizant of the impact of AI on practice. After all, awareness and participation are at the center of what ethical practice requires.