Clinical Issues in Psychotherapy via Telehealth
- Topic Areas:
- Risk Management | Telehealth
- Categories:
- Pre-Recorded Homestudy
- Speaker:
- Ken Major
- Course Levels:
- Introductory to Intermediate
- Duration:
- 1 CE
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- License:
- Never Expires.
Producer: Vermont Psychological Association
Description
- Many providers new to telehealth are unprepared for the range and intensity of client behaviors and unique situations they encounter
- With preparation and practice many of the difficulties inherent to video-based care can be minimized or turned into strengths
- Telehealth is here to stay…now is the time to increase your competence and confidence to provide the highest quality telehealth psychotherapy services possible
This course offers clinician-centered guidance on providing psychotherapy by telehealth. This program addresses both beginning and advanced aspects of telehealth service delivery, across two modules. The first module focuses on four core domains of competence for managing a variety of treatment boundaries, client presentations, technology issues, and other situations unique to, or significantly impacted by, a video-based approach to therapy services. In the second module, six advanced aspects of telehealth are explained, including ways to increase therapeutic presence, anticipating and managing issues that arise when working across multiple jurisdictions, and the heightened importance of self-care in a virtual role.
While numerous educational programs on telehealth focus on abstract or preparatory aspects, or do not include experiences from actual providers, this educational content is delivered by a clinician who has been providing video-based psychotherapy since 2013 and who works full-time providing specialized telehealth across multiple jurisdictions. Clinical Issues In Psychotherapy via Telehealth was created during, and with sensitivity to, the Coronavirus Pandemic. With a focus on practicality, it has been designed to help you increase your competence and confidence in providing therapy through telehealth, and explore thoughtful responses to a number of the clinical, ethical, and risk-related challenges involved in providing psychotherapy through a video modality.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Identify four domains of competence for psychotherapy telehealth service delivery.
- Explain how telehealth poses unique challenges to the usual provision of psychotherapy.
- Provide examples of behavioral responses to reduce or overcome barriers to successful telehealth.
- Identify six areas of focus for advanced telehealth service delivery
- Identify how might you utilize telehealth to home to enhance your assessment and intervention processes.
- Learn concrete ways you could alter your in-person therapeutic presence to improve client experiences in telehealth.
- Anticipate, identify, and skillfully respond to at least five possible problem areas for providers of psychotherapy via telehealth.
- Identify at least one mechanism for preventing cross-jurisdictional issues based on client location.
- Learn three components to consider when assessing behavioral risk in telehealth.
Credits
Vermont
1 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, and is also approved by the Vermont Board of Psychological Examiners to sponsor continuing education for psychologists licensed in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics:
Cultural Competency:
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation for continuing education credit for licensed independent clinical social workers in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types;
Ethics:
Cultural Competency:
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Board of Allied Mental Health for continuing education credit for licensed clinical mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types:
Ethics:
Cultural Competency:
Connecticut
1 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Connecticut accepts these credits for continuing education for psychologists in Connecticut pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-191c(b). This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Veterans' Mental Health:
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educaiton for psychologists. Based on this approval, this course is pre-approved for credit for Connecticut licensed professional counselors under Conn. Agencies Regs § 20-195cc-3(a)(1). This course is intended to qualify for mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics:
Veterans' Mental Health:
Massachusetts
1 CE Credits for Psychologists & LMHCs
1 CE Credits for LCSWs
CE Credits for LMHCs
The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists accepts credits earned from courses sponsored by APA-approved sponsors as indicated in 251 C.M.R. §§ 4.02, 4.03.
As a course sponsored by an APA-approved CE sponsor, this course qualifies for credit for clinical social workers and certified social workers in Massachusetts under 258 CMR sec 31.04(2)(d).
New Hampshire
1 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The New Hampshire Board of Psychologists accepts credits earned from courses sponsored by APA-approved sponsors as indicated in Psyc § 402.01(d)(11). This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics:
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for clinical social workers licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credits:
Ethics:
Suicide Prevention:
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for clinical mental health counselors licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credits:
Ethics:
Suicide Prevention:
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for marriage and family therapists; pastoral psychotherapists; and school social workers licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). The course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types:
Ethics:
Suicide Prevention:
Other States Accepting Credits from APA-Approved Sponsors
1 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The Vermont Psychological Association maintains responsibility for its programs and their content. Psychologists and other professionals licensed in states whose respective licensing boards approve continuing education offered by APA-approved sponsors may earn continuing education credits for this course.
Handouts
| Speaker Slides (225.6 KB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Research References (246.8 KB) | 4 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Course Objectives
Objective 1Identify four domains of competence for psychotherapy telehealth service delivery.
Objective 2
Identify six areas of focus for advanced telehealth service delivery
Objective 3
Anticipate, identify, and skillfully respond to at least five possible problem areas for providers of psychotherapy via telehealth