Description
Expand Your Practice and Help Expand Access to Your Services
This course will teach you the clinical aspects of providing behavioral health services via video and phone sessions. It covers how to create an emergency management plan, how to assess a prospective client for fit, and the complete process of conducting telemental health sessions. By practicing the skills of telemental health during this live webinar you will feel more confident in offering these services to clients.
Schedule
10AM-2:30PM EST
Arrive at 9:40 AM to work out any audio/visual issues on the webinar.
Following the course, you will log onto the training platform on this website in order to take your evaluation and print off your certificate.
How to Attend
Throughout the course, you will interact with the instructor and other participants by video, audio, and chat.
A computer with a camera, microphone, speakers, and internet access is required.
After registering go to “My Account” on the navigation bar, then “My Courses”, click on the name of your course, and when the course page opens you will see the web link for the webinar.
Arrive 15 minutes early to download the webinar software (Zoom). Upon registering you will be provided a link to join the webinar.
Instructor
Raymond Barrett, LPC, LMHC has extensively provided telemental health counseling services as an EAP counselor, in private practice, and for facilities.
He has developed several courses on telemental health and continues to update them with the latest telemental health standards.
Trainees find Ray to be very approachable, available and knowledgeable.
Ray appreciates hearing from each training participant individually in order to fulfill their specific learning needs and to incorporate their questions and successes into the training program.
The Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is registered in NY.
CE Hours
This course includes 4 contact hours
Psychologists: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Approval renewal date: 9/19
Counselors: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This course qualifies for 4 contact hours. Approval renewal date: 4/30/19
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0048. Approval renewal date: 2/29/2020
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by the Texas State Board Of Examiners Of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 3051. Expiration date: 8/31/19. This course is approved for 4 hours.
Marriage and Family Therapists:
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by the Texas State Board Of Examiners Of Marriage And Family Therapists. Provider #: 1128. Expiration date: 8/31/19. This course is approved for 4 hours.
Social Workers:
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC, #1609, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 05/02/2018 – 05/02/2021. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 4 social work clinical continuing education clock hours.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0435. Approval renewal date: 2/29/2020
Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 240 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
Agenda
10AM – 11AM
Emergency Management Planning for TeleMental Health
Establish with the client an emergency management plan for each session in both a supervised and unsupervised environment
List what information is required in order to create an emergency management plan
Explain the process of responding to an emergency during a telemental health session
11:15AM – 12:30PM
Screening for Fit for TeleMental Health Services
Assess if a prospective and/or current client is a fit for telemental health services
List at least three reasons why an individual may not be a fit for telemental health services
12:45PM-2:30PM
Ethical and Clinical Skills of Video and Phone Sessions
Describe the different technology and environment used when providing video sessions
List the potential issues caused by clinicians when providing video sessions
List the potential issues caused by clients with receiving video sessions
Explain how to create a telehealth station
Explain video session etiquette
List the steps or providing video sessions
Explain how to prepare a client for a video session
Respond to and process tech issues with a client
Explain possible applications used during a video session
Explain how to register a client and collect payment when a client is in different location than the clinician
Explain reimbursement options for video sessions
Explain how to prepare a client for a phone session
Describe phone session skills
List the benefits and drawbacks of phone sessions
Explain reimbursement options for phone sessions
Completing the Course and Receiving Your Certificate
To receive your certificate of completion you must complete the course in its entirety.
Online courses are completed by registering, logging in, navigating to your course using the blue navigation bar (My Account – My Courses – Your Course Name), completing all of the modules, completing and passing the post-test, and completing the course evaluation.
Live Webinar courses are completed by registering, logging in to this website, navigating to your course using the blue navigation bar (My Account – My Courses – Your Course Name), attending the full course via webinar, and completing the course evaluation online.
Live courses are completed by registering, attending the full course live in-person, logging in to this website, navigating to your course using the blue navigation bar (My Account – My Courses – Your Course Name), and completing the course evaluation online.
You can receive your certificate of completion by: logging onto this website, navigating to your course using the blue navigation bar (My Account – My Courses – Your Course Name), scroll to the bottom of your course, and click on your certificate to either download it or print if off.
You can watch a demo on how to complete a course by clicking here.
