Advanced Clinical Telepractice Models for Success
602
Credit Hour:
3
Course Description
Two hour-long interviews of mental health professionals who have years of successful telehealth practice.While significantly different in application, both these models embody classic, evidence-based approaches to working with clients who live hundreds of miles away from their practitioners. Specific descriptions are given of client recruitment, screening & assessment, intake procedures, routine care, working with children and older populations, community involvement and emergency planning both in the informed consent process as well as in actual suicide threats. Listen to how telehealth can be practiced safely, effectively -- and with suuccessful reimbursement by both trelephone and video platforms.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course participants will be able to:
- How 2 particualrly classic and successful telemental health modesl can be used in your practice
- How to get referrals
- How to screen and assess clients at a distance
- How to conduct mental health care using a telephone-based model
- How to deliver care using video conferencing with affordable, HIPAA-complaint alternatives to SKYPE
- Which cameras and computers to buy
- How to keep records and where to store them
- Who else you might need on your team
- How to develop effective, traditional and empirically supported emergency backup systems with clients and surroundoing community resources
Topics
All reading materials are included with this course.
Prerequisite(s)
Not Applicable
