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AI in Mental Health: Essential Skills

AI-ASK: Safety, Risk, and Epistemic Trust - Managing High Risk AI Use

Molly Pachan, PhD
Michael Groat, PhD
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Participants will enhance their clinical capacity to assess and respond to safety risks (namely suicide and psychosis) in patient AI use by identifying disruptions in relational and informational security and applying AI‑ASK‑informed interventions that support reflective functioning.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this session is to equip clinicians with the assessment tools and AI-ASK strategies needed to identify and mitigate safety risks associated with patient conversational AI use.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe at least two ways patient use of conversational AI can compromise safety, including disruptions to relational and informational security across a continuum of use.

  • Identify high-risk and emerging risk patterns of patient AI use, including scenarios involving suicide risk, psychosis, and maladaptive belief reinforcement.

  • Apply AI‑ASK strategies (Security and Attunement) to assess and respond to AI-related safety concerns in clinical practice.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Molly Pachan, PhD
Dr. Molly Pachan is a clinical psychologist with specialties in psychodynamic treatment, mentalization and reflective functioning, bipolar disorder care, personality disorders, and treatment of complex comorbid conditions. She holds a dual appointment as a Residential Psychologist at Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio, as well as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Pachan completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, her master's and doctoral degrees at Loyola University Chicago, and her predoctoral internship at Cambridge Health Alliance - Harvard Medical School. She has completed advanced postgraduate certificates at Northwestern University, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and the University of Cincinnati. Her academic interests include the role of AI in mental healthcare, personality disorders, lifespan development, and intercultural psychology. Dr. Pachan enjoys writing, speaking, and consulting with organizations on the role of AI in mental healthcare. She is the author of the AI-ASK clinical framework for assessing and addressing patients' AI usage in mental healthcare.
Michael Groat, PhD
Michael Groat, PhD, president and CEO of the Lindner Center of Hope, has a 18-year career of leadership in nationally ranked hospital, residential, and outpatient treatment programs that provide evidence-based treatment services for adolescents and adults. He is the former CEO of CooperRiis, and was the Chief Clinical Officer of Silver Hill Hospital. He also previously served as Director of Adult Services at the Menninger Clinic, and directed the Menninger Professionals and Executives Program. Dr. Groat completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in the treatment of treatment refractory personality disorders and other mental disorders at the Austen Riggs Center. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Groat has lectured widely on topics related to psychotherapeutic treatments, acute and intermediate levels of care, suicide prevention, personality assessment, the loneliness epidemic and recovery.