Preparing Supervisees for TeleMental Health
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, effective telehealth supervision requires more than clinical expertise; it demands a deep understanding of the unique challenges posed by telehealth, including ethics, legal compliance, and technology use.
This course addresses these critical areas, providing supervisors with the essential knowledge and practical tools needed to evaluate, train, and support their supervisees in the evolving world of telehealth...
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, effective telehealth supervision requires more than clinical expertise; it demands a deep understanding of the unique challenges posed by telehealth, including ethics, legal compliance, and technology use.
This course addresses these critical areas, providing supervisors with the essential knowledge and practical tools needed to evaluate, train, and support their supervisees in the evolving world of telehealth.
Participants will learn how to assess their supervisees' readiness to provide telemental health services, ensuring they meet ethical and legal standards. They will dive into the complexities of telehealth, including the importance of protecting client confidentiality, adhering to HIPAA regulations, and creating contingency plans for technological failures. Additionally, they will explore strategies for helping supervisees handle emergencies in a remote care setting, offering clear steps to ensure the same quality of care that clients expect from in-person sessions.
This course emphasizes the supervisor’s role in modeling effective telehealth practices. Participants will gain valuable insights into the parallel processes between telehealth and tele-supervision, learning not just how to oversee but also exemplify best practices for remote care. Whether it’s selecting secure technology, managing the workflow of virtual therapy sessions, or ensuring appropriate documentation, they will walk away with a framework for delivering top-notch telehealth supervision.
Register now and take the next step in advancing your telehealth supervision, ensuring you’re fully prepared to lead your team in providing safe, ethical, and effective remote care.
Topics covered:
- Ethical codes and guidelines
- How to evaluate a supervisees’ readiness to provide telemental health
- A supervisor’s case study
This course includes video instruction, downloadable slides and a downloadable checklist, the "Evaluation for a Supervisee’s TeleMental Health Services."
This workshop is for clinical supervisors and those considering the practice of supervision.
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Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:
- Explain the Supervisor’s ethical and legal responsibility to evaluate a supervisee's readiness to provide telemental health service.
- Describe the process of evaluating a supervisee's readiness to provide telemental health service.
- Apply a supervisee telemental health preparedness checklist when evaluating a supervisee’s readiness.
Course Details
Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:
- Explain the Supervisor’s ethical and legal responsibility to evaluate a supervisee's readiness to provide telemental health service.
- Describe the process of evaluating a supervisee's readiness to provide telemental health service.
- Apply a supervisee telemental health preparedness checklist when evaluating a supervisee’s readiness.
Ruby L. Blow
MA, LPC, NCC, BCC, CPCS, ACS, BC-TMH
Ruby Blow is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Georgia. Her current practice focus is professional development and she provides tele-supervision and tele-consultation. Her services include both group and individual modalities. She is a leader in the field of clinical supervision practice and has been in practice for 22 years. In 2012, Ruby won the Counselor Educator of the Year Award in the state of Georgia from the Professional Counselors Association. She has worked with mental health professionals in the area of clinical development from the beginning of her career. She taught for 10 years as an adjunct faculty member at Argosy University Atlanta. During her time as a clinical instructor, she led students in their practicum internships as their instructor of record. She gained experience in distance supervision leading all online sections of practicum/internship seminar. Ruby is an approved clinical supervisor and a board certified telemental health provider.
Ray Barrett
CEO, LPC, LMHC
Raymond Barrett is the founder and CEO of the Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC (TCI). A licensed mental health counselor (LMHC and LPC), Ray is an innovator and leader in the field of telemental health. He’s an expert telehealth trainer, a respected speaker, and a trusted consultant.
Ray’s inspiration for TCI came from his clients that started asking him to conduct their therapy sessions over the phone. Ray had discovered a knowledge gap in mental health training. He wanted to fill that void with comprehensive and practical training in telemental health - so Ray created that training for himself and fellow clinicians. Since 2014, TCI has delivered comprehensive telehealth training and consultation to a global network of more than 40,000 healthcare organizations and professionals. TCI now offers over 180 specialized courses, a vast array of telehealth resources, and ongoing free continuing education opportunities for telehealth providers. Among the most sought-after courses offered by TCI is the Telemental Health Training Certificate (THTC Certificate) program.
Ray played a significant role in developing the initial curriculum for the Board Certified Telemental Health credential (BC-TMH) for the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE). He reviewed every training module. He helped draft content, including questions for exams. He even wrote and developed the initial draft of one of the training modules: Telemental Health Settings and Coordination of Care.
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) - the most respected organization for telehealth - recently overhauled its guidelines. Ray was on the writing committee that developed Best Practices in Synchronous Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health in March 2022. In 2019, Ray participated in a task force for developing a clinical rating process for mobile apps designed to help treat depression. The recommendations were presented to ATA.
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is an independent, nonprofit organization that provides accreditation services worldwide at the request of health and human service providers. As part of the International Standards Advisory Committee (ISAC), Ray helped establish CARF’s standards for virtual services.
Ray also is a frequent speaker and consultant for professional organizations. He has presented for over 20 organizations since 2015.