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Pre-Recorded Homestudy

Clinical Issues in Psychotherapy via Telehealth


Topic Areas:
Risk Management |  Telehealth
Categories:
Pre-Recorded Homestudy
Speaker:
Ken Major, PsyD
Course Levels:
Introductory to Intermediate
Duration:
1 CE
Format:
Audio and Video
License:
Never expires.



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:

  1. Identify four domains of competence for psychotherapy telehealth service delivery.
    1. Explain how telehealth poses unique challenges to the usual provision of psychotherapy.
    2. Provide examples of behavioral responses to reduce or overcome barriers to successful telehealth.
  1. Identify six areas of focus for advanced telehealth service delivery
    1. Identify how might you utilize telehealth to home to enhance your assessment and intervention processes.
    2. Learn concrete ways you could alter your in-person therapeutic presence to improve client experiences in telehealth.
  1. Anticipate, identify, and skillfully respond to at least five possible problem areas for providers of psychotherapy via telehealth.
    1. Identify at least one mechanism for preventing cross-jurisdictional issues based on client location.
    2. Learn three components to consider when assessing behavioral risk in telehealth.

 

Credits


Vermont

1 CE Credits

Vermont Psychologists

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:  

Vermont LICSW

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:  

Vermont LCMHC/LMFT

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

Connecticut Psychologists

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: 

Connecticut LPC

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

Massachusetts Psychologists

The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists.  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. 
 

Massachusetts LICSW/LCSW

The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists.  As a course sponsored by an organization with such approval, 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

New Hampshire Psychologists

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: 

New Hampshire LICSW

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: 

New Hampshire LCMHC

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: 

New Hampshire--Other Mental Health Practice

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

APA States

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.



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Ken Major, PsyD, is a staff psychologist with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Greentree Regional Clinical Resource Hub. He works as part of a virtual team partnered with VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System that provides video-based specialty mental healthcare to underserved veterans in six states. Dr. Major is a national consultant for Cognitive Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD through the VA Family Services Program and is a past Chairperson of the Vermont Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee. He has previously worked in VA hospital systems in Texas and Vermont and served for two years as the director of risk and quality management for a county-wide community mental health designated agency in Vermont.


Course Objectives

Objective 1

Identify 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