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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.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how to establish with the client an emergency management plan for each session in both a supervised and unsupervised environment and the process of responding to an emergency during a telemental health session.
- Use three criteria to assess if a prospective and/or current client is a fit for telemental health services.
- Demonstrate how to provide an effective video or phone session from start to finish.
- Demonstrate how to prepare the client for a video or phone session and to address technological challenges.
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.
Here is a visual guide with webinar instructions.
After registering, go to Courses “My Courses”, click on the title 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).
During the webinar, you will receive a password to submit your own attendance on the course page. You must submit your attendance on the day of your webinar.
Instructor
Raymond Barrett, CEO, LMHC, LPC, is an expert telemental health consultant and instructor. He has assisted many organizations with creating, launching, and enhancing their telehealth programs, developed several courses on telemental health, and provided speaking engagements nationwide. Consultation clients and trainees find Ray to be very approachable, available, and knowledgeable. As a clinician, Ray has extensively provided telemental health counseling services in private practice, for facilities, and an EAP program.
CE Hours
This course includes 4 contact hours
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.
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: 1/31/2023
Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if this course would be accepted by your licensing board.
Social Workers: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2018 – 05/02/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
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: 2/28/2023
Addiction Professionals: Telehealth Certification Institute is an approved provider of continuing education by NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, provider #193104. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
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.
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
Who Should Attend
Any behavioral health professional.
Closed Captions
Closed captioning is offered for participants of live webinars who are hard of hearing.
During the live webinar, captions will be provided either by:
- clicking on a button at the top left corner of your screen to view the real-time transcription, or
- following the link given in the chat window to access the captions. If you use the link you will have to minimize the transcription window to fill half of your screen and the minimize the Zoom window to fill the other half of your screen. You can also use two screens if you would prefer.
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 Courses – the Course Title), 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 Courses – the Course Title), 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 Courses – the Course Title), and completing the course evaluation online.
You can receive your certificate of completion by: logging onto this website, navigating to the course using the blue navigation bar (My Courses – the Course Title), scroll to the bottom of your course, and click on your certificate to either download it or print it.
Here is a visual guide with webinar instructions.
You can watch a demo on how to complete a course by clicking here.
If you wish to earn the THTC Certificate, you must also complete the Law & Ethics portion of the program for CEs.
Agreement
By registering for this event you are agreeing to:
Test using Zoom.us/test before the event to ensure you are ready for the event.
Since this is a live interactive event it means that your camera must remain on throughout the event and your interaction during the event is expected.
During the webinar, you will receive a password to submit your own attendance on the course page. You must submit your attendance on the day of your webinar.
Partial CE credits are not possible; therefore you are required to be present throughout the event in order to receive CE credits.
Respect all other participants during the event as though you would if you were sitting with the other attendees at a conference table:
- Dress appropriately
- Be in a private location void of distractions
- Do not multitask
- Remain on mute unless you are sharing with the group
