Brown Professor of Psychiatry Placed on Probation by RIDOH for Inappropriate Relationship - GoLocalProv

Monday, January 16, 2023

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior astatine Brown University Amy Cameron has been placed connected probation by the Rhode Island Department of Health.

The Harvard-educated Cameron is an accomplished researcher and practices astatine the Veterans Administration Hospital successful Providence. She has an world assignment astatine Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School.

Beyond Harvard, Cameron besides earned a Ph.D. astatine Clark University.

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According to helium resume, she is simply a subordinate of much than 10 aesculapian societies and has been wide published. One of her papers, “Moral wounded arsenic a unsocial predictor of suicidal ideation successful a seasoned illustration with a substance usage disorder,” was published successful the Journal of the American Psychological Association.

RIDOH sanctioned her for an inappropriate relationship, and they called retired that Cameron did not self-report the incidents, arsenic the violations were raised by a complainant — who was not identified by the RIDOH.

According to the RIDOH finding, the incidental was a usurpation of the “Psychologist Act" by breaching respective tenets of the American Psychological Association Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, specifically:

a.    Ethical Standard §3.04 Avoiding Harm-psychologists indispensable instrumentality tenable steps to debar harming their clients/patients;

b.    Ethical Standard §3.05 Multiple Relationships-psychologists who person a nonrecreational relation with a idiosyncratic should refrain from entering into aggregate relationships with the aforesaid idiosyncratic if the aggregate narration risks exploitation oregon harm to the idiosyncratic with whom the nonrecreational relation exists;

c.    Ethical Standard §3.08 Exploitive Relationships-psychologists should not exploit their patient/client relationships

1.    That Respondent is simply a scientist licensed to signifier successful the State of Rhode Island nether psychology, License Number PS01c558.

2.    That astatine each times applicable hereto, Cameron was employed astatine Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center successful Providence, RI.

3.    That according to the Complaint, Respondent began a objective narration with Patient 1 connected oregon astir November 2014, The objective narration lasted until astir May 2015. The narration betwixt Respondent and Patient 1 became idiosyncratic successful nature. The narration exceeded the professionally acceptable boundaries for practitioners and patients including predominant after-hours telephone calls and texting. Additionally, she failed to papers the occurrence and frequence of the after-hours communications successful the objective notes.

4.    Cameron acknowledged the narration with Patient 1 was improper, represented a important ethical lapse successful judgement and expressed remorse successful transportation therewith.

5.    That, nevertheless, the Board noted she did not self-report the incidents, arsenic they were raised by the complainant.

6.    That the behaviour described successful the Complaint and successful Paragraph 3, 4, and 5 supra violated §5-44-18 (6) of the "Psychologist Act" by breaching respective tenets of the American

As conditions of the enforcement action, Cameron indispensable implicit a fig of actions per the agreement:

Complete required continuing acquisition credits ("CECs") required for licensure and antecedently acquired CECs connected morals and boundaries.

She volition question and get objective supervisory consultation with a supervisor astatine her existent leader -the Veterans Administration, during the probation period.

Efforts to scope Cameron for remark were unsuccessful.

Cameron Featured connected RIDOH's Podcast

The Rhode Island Department of Health featured Cameron connected their podcast successful August.

The amusement is titled Veterans' Health - Public Health Out Loud

This week’s impermanent adept connected the #PublicHealth Out Loud #podcast is Dr. Amy Cameron, a objective scientist astatine the Providence VA Medical Center. Download the occurrence to larn much astir the astir communal wellness concerns among #veterans & attraction options.https://t.co/qo8Wb2ipNx

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