Using Apps for Clinical Care? 5 Steps to Legal, Ethical, Evidence-Based Mental Health Apps
Faculty: Marlene M. Maheu, PhD
This learning activity is designed to provide practical, legal, and ethical considerations for identifying appropriate apps, understanding privacy policies, integrating apps into a treatment plan, and proper documentation.
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Program Description
Clients and patients rely on psychotherapists and other healthcare practitioners to suggest the best mental health apps for their care. Although many clinicians report using mental health apps in their clinical practice, few have received specific training to select, implement and monitor the use of evidence-based mental health apps.
What You Will Learn About Using Mental Health Apps
This program is designed to provide practical, legal, and ethical guidance for:
- Explaining the difference between non-evidence-based and evidenced-based apps
- Identifying appropriate apps
- Understanding privacy policies
- Formally introducing an app in clinical care
- Assuring its fit with the treatment model and orientation
- Following up on homework assignments
- Assessing user experience and satisfaction
- Troubleshooting problems if they arise
- Track evidence-based mental health app effectiveness
- Integrating apps into a treatment plan
- Documenting app use and effectiveness in clinical notes
How This Program Will Be Delivered
This highly interactive learning activity will provide up-to-date guidance for busy clinicians in choosing the best mental health apps based on scientific journal articles and published competencies.
- It will offer state-of-the-art, free, digital resources for professionals who want to be proficient in their clinical use of apps.
- Special focus will be given to apps for specific populations, such as children, and for identified disorders, such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression.
- Audience members will be actively engaged to contribute the knowledge offered by speakers and asked to provide their experiences of using specific apps and make recommendations that could be useful to others who participate in this class.
- Both free and paid apps will be discussed so as to meet the needs of people in different social economic groups and different backgrounds.
Learning Objectives
- List at least two legal and two ethical issues related to the clinical use of apps.
- Outline three steps to appropriately selecting an app for clinical use with a client or patient.
- Describe how to evaluate an app for adherence to HIPAA.
When & How
| CME or CE: | Credit hour 1 |
| Duration: | Approximately 1 hour to complete. |
| Format: | Online Activity. Online readings, illustrative media, automatically graded post-test. All material for Telehealth.org training is provided at no extra cost, and is accessible through your computer or digital device. Available 24/7 as on-demand training (asynchronous). |
| When: | Available 24/7 to review anytime for 6 months from registration date. |
| Where: | 100% Online |
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Audience
This program is for beginning and intermediate-level “telepractitioners” and “telesupervisors” wishing to deliver telemental health services in these disciplines:
- Psychiatrists, Internists, Pediatricians, Gerontologists, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners
- Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists
- Speech Pathologists, Dietitians, Occupational Therapists, Behavioral Analysts, Substance Use Professionals
- CEOs, COOs, Administrators, Billing & Coding Staff
Faculty
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Dr. Armstrong works at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she is involved in the development and implementation of health technologies across the enterprise. Her prior experience includes nearly a decade at the Department of Defense, where she led an interdisciplinary provider education and training program on best practices for connected health in clinical care. She provides subject-matter expertise in the areas of clinical psychology, including mTBI, PTSD, suicide risk and prevention, substance abuse, and neuropsychological assessment, as well as technology platforms including mobile health, virtual reality, virtual worlds, wearable technology, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and big data. Her primary interests are in the development and evaluation of behavior change products and implementation programs that leverage innovative technology solutions to improve health. She has published 18 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has presented extensively at conferences and professional meetings across the country. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 19 and 40) as well as the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, where she serves on the Ethics Committee and Convention Committee. |
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Dr. Marlene Maheu has been a pioneer in telemental health for almost three decades. With five textbooks, dozens of book chapters, and journal articles to her name and educated more than 50k clinicians from 109 countries, she is in a unique position to guide you or your organization in finding a maximally profitable niche in telehealth. She is the Founder and CEO of the Telebehavioral Health Institute (Telehealth.org), owned by Telehealth.org. She is the CEO of the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (CTiBS), and the Founder of the Journal for Technology in Behavioral Science. |
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