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Practicing Over State Lines: Licensure Portability Update
In response to a question about licensing as posed by a new member of our LinkedIn group, called “TeleMental Health Institute,” I wrote this recent recap of my views: Kudos for seeking clarification of current licensing issues. If you want to work with clients who have moved out of state, you might consider contacting the [...]
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 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 StoryThe American Telemedicine Association and YOU
The American Telemedicine Association has been pivotal since the election of President Obama in educating members of Congress and Senate of the facts and figures related to the substantial savings documented for decades by research using a wide variety of healthcare technologies. The facts are undeniable and the benefits are creating a sea change of thinking in our legislators. This professional association is instrumental in helping our government officials understand that telemedicine is the future of medicine.
Full StoryAmerican Psychological Association Ethical Codes Point to the Need for Online Health Care Professionals to be Properly Trained
Concurrently, standard ethical requirements promulgated by most professional mental health associations point to the need for professionals venturing into new areas to undertake a relevant course of study prior to delivering services to consumers. This ethical mandate is illustrated by a excerpt from the 2002 APA Ethics Code, for which relevant sections have been highlighted below:
Full StoryOnline Counseling and Professional Licensure?
If you are a licensed healthcare professional wanting to counsel on the Internet, you are subject to the same laws that regulate the practice of telehealth and telemedicine. Until there is a substantial change of legislation, those laws are very clear in most states that the all healthcare practitioners must be licensed in the state of residence of the patient.
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