Description
Expand Your Practice and Help Expand Access to Your Services
This course consists of three topics:
- Emergency Management Planning for TeleMental Health
- Screening for Fit for TeleMental Health Services
- Ethical and Clinical Skills of Video and Phone Sessions
These topics 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.
How to Attend
- Register for the course
- In the navigation bar above click on the “My Courses” tab
- You then can access the course by clicking on its title
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
Topics & Competencies
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
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
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 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 a different location than the clinician
- Explain how to prepare a client for a phone session
- Describe phone session skills
- List the benefits and drawbacks of phone sessions
CE Hours
Credit Hours:
This course offers a total of 3.5 credit 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.
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 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.
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.
Instructor(s)
Raymond Barrett, LMHC, LPC, BC-TMH, M.S., has extensively provided telemental health counseling services in private practice, for facilities, and for an EAP program. Both as a practitioner and trainer, his aim is to fill every knowledge gap as it arises in the telemental health profession, and that his training allows for immediate implementation. Ray has developed several courses on telemental health and ensures his courses are kept updated. 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. He has presented on telebehavioral health at several conferences and has assisted many organizations to create, launch, and enhance their telehealth programs through his consultation services.
Who should attend
This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching methods
Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation. The courses may include required reading.
Course Availability
You have six months to access online courses from the time of purchase.