AI for Helping Professions: Safety & Ethics

About this course

AI is changing how helping professionals work. This course makes sure you're ready.Whether you're a therapist, coach, healthcare professional, social worker, teacher, or HR professional, this course gives you practical, ethical guidance grounded in the realities of your work.Written and taught by a chartered psychologist and software engineer, it gives you everything you need to use AI confidently, safely, and ethically in your professional practice. We start from the very basics, so you don't need any prior knowledge of AI to get started.You will learn:How to use AI for research, formulation, report writing, note-taking, and summarising documentsHow to craft effective prompts to get useful, reliable outputHow to navigate ethical issues such as competence, privacy, hallucinations, bias and deskillingHow to run AI locally so client data never leaves your computerWe also cover territory that most AI courses ignore entirely: what to do when your clients are using AI. Whether a client arrives with a ChatGPT formulation, uses AI for reassurance between sessions, or has developed an unhealthy relationship with an AI companion, you will know how to respond.By the end of the course, you will be able to use AI as a skilled professional assistant while keeping your clinical judgement, your ethics, and your clients' wellbeing at the centre of your practice.