Tag Archives: Online Counseling
Reimbursement: Recent Legal and Marketplace Changes
Increasingly, the Technical Marketplace Changes Standard Therapy Models. FREE 1-hour Training Webinar (LIVE) Wrap up this year with an essential discussion of current events to predict next year’s focus on telemental health and online therapy. This month’s guest will be Tania S. Malik, J.D., Founder and President of COPEtoday. As Dr. Maheu’s guest, she will [...]
Full StorySuicide Preparedness: 7 Strategies for Telemental Health or Online Therapy
Potentially suicidal clients and patients pose one of the most rigorous challenges faced by telemental health professionals. This brief article will give a glimpse of the advance preparation you might consider. Institutional Telemental Health Practice Many institutional work settings already have emergency response systems in place. Examples of such organizations include the military, the [...]
Full StoryOnline Mental Health Companies Fall Short
The online mental health delivery system is sorely lagging in development. Service delivery models suggested by many dot.commental health websites put both the practitioner and consumer at risk. Many such websites are developed with more of an eye toward making a profit than delivering services that would benefit the involved parties.For example: Some web-based businesses [...]
Full StoryEthical Fallacies in Online Counseling – Assessing Our Own Cognitive Distortions
Have you ever heard colleagues justify a questionable professional decision by stating she or he, “felt it was ok?” Or maybe they were “just doing the same as the other professionals?” Or “it’s better to deliver some help rather than none at all?” Many practitioners deliver services online without adequate professional training. It also appears that many are making [...]
Full StoryCanadian Psychological Association Code of Ethics as Applied to Online Therapy
Have you been told that we don’t yet have guidelines for legal or ethical practice online? Nothing could be further from the truth. If you are yearning for solid research looking at ethics in telemental health or online therapy, I strongly encourage you to read the recently published article in a special issue of “Canadian [...]
Full StoryThe Problem with “Online Counseling” & “Online Therapy” (Part I)
Do we need a new category of mental health service to properly identify the new services being offered online? Telehealth and Telemedicine Precedents When offering telehealth service in the health care world, the patient is seen by someone “in the system” initially for an in-person consult. An administrative assistant will open the file, check the [...]
Full StoryAnonymity — Questionable Online Therapy Practice?
In a recent New York Times article, Dr. Carolyn Turvey suggested the need for collecting identifying information from patients. The author of that same article then quoted the opposing view of a spokeswoman for an online therapy company. The spokeswoman explained that 90% of therapists using their platform don’t collect identifying information, because “Patients with [...]
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