Description
Expand Your Practice and Help Expand Access to Your Services
This course consists of 5 topics.
- Introduction to TeleMental Health
- Legal Aspects of TeleMental Health
- Ethics of Using Technology in Behavioral Health
- HIPAA Compliance for Mental Health Professionals
- Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Aspects of Selecting Technology
Both clinicians and clients are using technology more than ever. Technology is helping many clients access the care they need and providing both clinicians and clients the convenience they desire. However, the competencies of using technology in healthcare are not so evident.
By completing this course, you will learn the legal, HIPAA, and ethical aspects of selecting and using technology in your clinical work.
By also completing the TeleMental Health Clinical Skills course for CEs, you will earn the TeleMental Health Training Certificate.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the history, research and settings of telemental health.
- Explain how to determine if or when they can legally practice telemental health by reviewing and discussing state licencing laws and federal regulations.
- Explain how to ensure you practice within your boundaries of competence when using digital or communication technology in your practice, by holding telemental health services to the same standard of care expected for same-location/ face-to-face services.
- Describe the clinical, legal and ethical considerations when selecting technology, including HIPAA considerations, so you can apply these considerations to technology decisions you employ in your practice.
- List and explain the possible benefits, drawbacks and risks of telemental health.
Topic List & Competencies
Introduction to TeleMental Health
- Define Telehealth and telemental health
- Explain the benefits of telemental health
- Explain the possible drawbacks and risks of telemental health
- Describe the support for telemental health
- Describe the history of telemental health
- Summarize the research findings on telemental health
- List the types of settings and locations of telemental health
- List three resources for telemental health updates
Legal Aspects of TeleMental Health
- Explain how to determine if you can legally practice telemental health
- Explain how to determine if you can provide clinical services to a client who is not located in the jurisdiction in which you have obtained a professional license
- Describe how to handle a situation in which a client is going to be outside the jurisdiction in which you are authorized to practice while requesting your clinical services
Ethics of Using Technology in Behavioral Health
- List the sources of telemental health ethical guidelines
- Explain how you can ensure to practice within your boundaries of competence when providing telemental health
- Explain how to ethically use social media and create a social media policy
- List at least five topics that ought to be in an informed consent related to telemental health
- Explain how to verify identity when providing telemental health services
- Describe three possible ethical dilemmas that can occur when providing telemental health
HIPAA Compliance for Mental Health Professionals
- List four sources for privacy law in the United States
- List three risks to confidentiality when using technology
- Define a breach to protected health information
- Explain the steps to becoming HIPAA compliant
- Explain the requirements of the privacy rule in HIPAA law
- Explain the requirements of the security rule in HIPAA law
- Explain the requirements of the breach notification rule in HIPAA law
- Explain how to conduct a risk analysis and create a risk management plan
- Describe the three safeguards in HIPAA law
- Explain when you need to obtain a Business Associate Agreement
Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Aspects of Selecting Technology
- Explain the ethical considerations in choosing technology
- Explain the legal considerations in choosing technology
- Explain the clinical considerations in choosing technology
- List the steps of choosing technology for clinical services
- List the considerations in choosing technology for clinical records
- List the considerations in choosing technology for video conferencing
- List the considerations in choosing technology for messaging
- List the considerations in choosing technology for phone calls, voicemail, and fax
- List the considerations in choosing technology for payment processing and document transferring
- List the considerations in choosing technology for data storage, backup, and archiving
- List at least seven technology components using in video conferencing
- Describe how to prevent, respond to, and process with clients technology issues
Instructor(s)
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
Credit Hours:
This course provides 7 credit hours (6 of which are ethics)
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 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 6 ethics continuing education credits and 1 clinical continuing education credit.
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 420 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.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
Completing the Course and Receiving Your Certificate
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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.
