BHS-320 Topic 1
Topic Selection, Thesis Statement, Outline, and Annotated
Bibliography Worksheet
Sofia Vega-Shattuck
Topic Selection:
ChatGPT and other AI technology
AI technologies like ChatGPT are continuously changing the behavioral health field. It is changing
communication, access to care, and it’s creating ethical dilemmas. Exploring the effects it has on
lawmaking and ethics provides critical insights into its opportunities and challenges for behavioral health
professionals.
Thesis Statement:
While AI technologies like ChatGPT offer significant advancements in behavioral health by
improving access to care and improving communication, they pose ethical challenges, such as
maintaining patient confidentiality, addressing bias, and navigating the limits of AI’s role in
therapeutic settings, ultimately necessitating updated laws and ethical frameworks.
Outline of Your Paper
1. Introduction
• Hook: Imagine a world where accessing mental health care is as easy as having a
conversation with an AI on your phone or laptop.
• Context: As AI technologies become more integrated into the behavioral health field,
they are reshaping how care is delivered. These tools can enhance communication
between providers and patients, expand access to services for underserved populations,
and assist in improving clinical workflows. However, their rapid adoption also brings
significant ethical and legal concerns that professionals must address to ensure safe and
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, equitable care.
• Thesis: While AI technologies like ChatGPT offer significant advancements in
behavioral health by improving access to care and improving communication, they pose
ethical challenges, such as maintaining patient confidentiality, addressing bias, and
navigating the limits of AI’s role in therapeutic settings, ultimately necessitating
updated laws and ethical frameworks.
a. Heading 1- Effects of AI on Lawmaking and Ethics in Behavioral Health
• Opening Statement: AI technologies rapid development has outpaced existing
ethical frameworks and legal systems, ultimately creating a need for updated
guidelines to ensure responsible use is applied.
• Key Point 1: AI’s impact on confidentiality laws, such as how HIPAA may need to
evolve.
• Key Point 2: Challenges in regulating algorithmic transparency to prevent bias in AI
generated recommendations.
• Key Point 3: Ethical concerns about AI being used and how it could potentially
compromise patient care quality.
• Supporting Research: Impact of Digital Transformation on Mental Healthcare:
Opportunities, Challenges, and Role of AI Chat-bots in Symptom Management
b. Heading 2- Ethical Dilemma Arising from AI in Behavioral Health
• Dilemma Description: A hypothetical scenario where an AI detects suicidal
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Topic Selection, Thesis Statement, Outline, and Annotated
Bibliography Worksheet
Sofia Vega-Shattuck
Topic Selection:
ChatGPT and other AI technology
AI technologies like ChatGPT are continuously changing the behavioral health field. It is changing
communication, access to care, and it’s creating ethical dilemmas. Exploring the effects it has on
lawmaking and ethics provides critical insights into its opportunities and challenges for behavioral health
professionals.
Thesis Statement:
While AI technologies like ChatGPT offer significant advancements in behavioral health by
improving access to care and improving communication, they pose ethical challenges, such as
maintaining patient confidentiality, addressing bias, and navigating the limits of AI’s role in
therapeutic settings, ultimately necessitating updated laws and ethical frameworks.
Outline of Your Paper
1. Introduction
• Hook: Imagine a world where accessing mental health care is as easy as having a
conversation with an AI on your phone or laptop.
• Context: As AI technologies become more integrated into the behavioral health field,
they are reshaping how care is delivered. These tools can enhance communication
between providers and patients, expand access to services for underserved populations,
and assist in improving clinical workflows. However, their rapid adoption also brings
significant ethical and legal concerns that professionals must address to ensure safe and
© 2025. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.
, equitable care.
• Thesis: While AI technologies like ChatGPT offer significant advancements in
behavioral health by improving access to care and improving communication, they pose
ethical challenges, such as maintaining patient confidentiality, addressing bias, and
navigating the limits of AI’s role in therapeutic settings, ultimately necessitating
updated laws and ethical frameworks.
a. Heading 1- Effects of AI on Lawmaking and Ethics in Behavioral Health
• Opening Statement: AI technologies rapid development has outpaced existing
ethical frameworks and legal systems, ultimately creating a need for updated
guidelines to ensure responsible use is applied.
• Key Point 1: AI’s impact on confidentiality laws, such as how HIPAA may need to
evolve.
• Key Point 2: Challenges in regulating algorithmic transparency to prevent bias in AI
generated recommendations.
• Key Point 3: Ethical concerns about AI being used and how it could potentially
compromise patient care quality.
• Supporting Research: Impact of Digital Transformation on Mental Healthcare:
Opportunities, Challenges, and Role of AI Chat-bots in Symptom Management
b. Heading 2- Ethical Dilemma Arising from AI in Behavioral Health
• Dilemma Description: A hypothetical scenario where an AI detects suicidal
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