NASW Virginia and yourceus.com presents:
Conducting Ethical Telemental Health Practice: An Intensive 9-hour TMH Skill Building Program
Live streamed to your home or office August 13-14, 2020, 9:00 am - 1:45 pm both days
Presenting a two-day conference, comprised of up to 9 hours of learning in Telemental Health, to provide the mental health clinician with a powerful learning experience for a key competency in the era of the coronavirus crisis. From key ethical considerations of telemental health practice to all the steps and stages of telemental health services, this course will provide a solid overview of how to engage in ethical telemental health practice, with forms and templates to assist the clinician in operating professionally and ethically.
This course provides the mental health clinician with a hands-on learning experience in providing telemental health services from the point of first contact with a client to the point of termination. Attendees will be asked to work in small groups to practice direct interaction with clients to gain experience in each step of the process of establishing ethical psychotherapeutic relationships with clients and conducting successful treatment using videoconferencing as a service delivery model.
Objectives for this Course:
Conference Day One (9:00 AM to 1:45 PM with one break, 3 Ethics, 1.5 Core and 4.5 Telemental Health Hours)
Course Objectives Day One
Utilize the key legal, ethical and clinical knowledge base and skill sets that must be part of the active vocabulary of any clinician who wishes to engage in telemental health services.
Mitigate the ethical complexities within telemental health approaches to managing privacy and confidentiality, client safety, best practices / HIPAA compliant record keeping, and key resources, systems and structures needed for ethical practice
Apply ethical decision-making models to telemental health practice.
Describe each of the different modalities for providing telemental health services and understand the indications and contraindications for the use of each modality.
Mitigate the key complications related to the maintenance of confidentiality and privacy when operating in distance counseling formats.
Day 1 of the conference will include interactive scenario analysis addressing the kinds of complex clinical dilemmas that may be created in Telemental Health Services.
Conference Day Two (9:00 AM to 1:45 PM with one break, 3 Core Contact and Telemental Health Hours)
Course Objectives Day Two
Resolve the special complexities of informed consent, client verification and establishing best practice client agreements when operating in distance counseling formats.
Apply best practices forms and templates for clinical paperwork to accompany distance counseling formats.
Develop the essential back-up resources and systems necessary to conduct ethical distance counseling services.
Apply systematic approach to best practices in telemental health from point of first contact to point of termination.
Apply best practices in crisis management when engaging in telemental health services.
Utilize best practices forms and templates for effective telemental health practice
Describe the key competencies of effective telemental health services.
Understand the key clinical and ethical issues related to effective termination when using telemental health services.
Select the telemental health model(s) that is best for you.
Day 2 of the conference will include interactive scenario analysis addressing the kinds of complex clinical dilemmas that may be created in Telemental Health Services.
Attendees will earn 9.0 Category I Contact Hours.
Speakers: Charlie Safford, LCSW; Ken Scroggs, LCSW, LPC, LMFT, CEAP, DCC; Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC, DCC, CPCS
Registration Fee: $135
Registration:
This training is limited to NASW Virginia Chapter members. To receive the link to register for this training, visit this page (you will be required to sign in as a member): https://netforumpro.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=NASWVA&WebCode=200813TelementalHealth
