Syllabus
- Onboarding telemental health clients
- Securely delivering and receiving intake paperwork
- Norming the telemental health relationship and processes
- TMH informed consent elements
- Evaluating appropriateness for telemental health
- The dyadic and contextual aspects of appropriateness for telemental health
- Psychological and contextual conditions requiring special consideration
- Norming the clients’ role in modulating their own behavior to support effectiveness of the telemental health service delivery medium
- Crisis/emergency planning
- Backup communications methods
- Crisis planning in telemental health
- Working with clients from intake to termination via telemental health
- Intake considerations
- Considerations at each session
- Considerations from time-to-time through the relationship
- Termination considerations
- Managing and leveraging online disinhibition effect
- How the effect can impede therapy and how to mitigate that
- How the effect can improve therapy and how to leverage that
- Communicating with clients outside of video (e.g. email, text, phone, etc.)
- Between-session boundaries
- Content of messages
- Secure vs. nonsecure communication methods