E-Therapy and Telehealth: Ethics, Application, and Clinical Practice

Description

Telehealth has revolutionized behavioral healthcare—but with innovation comes new ethical dilemmas, evolving expectations, and a flood of technology-based tools that demand confident, informed clinical judgment. This course offers a clear path forward, empowering clinicians to navigate ethical challenges and technology integration with clarity, competence, and purpose.

In a time of rapid digital transformation, understanding the rules—and the risks—of e-therapy is no longer optional. This course equips you with the insights and practical guidance needed to serve clients effectively, safely, and ethically in our ever-connected world.

James R. Corbin, MSW, LCSW, brings more than 25 years of clinical and academic leadership to this course, with deep expertise in mental health ethics, telehealth delivery, and family therapy. His dynamic career spans service to children, adolescents, and military families, as well as teaching at Temple University and Elizabethtown College. Prof. Corbin’s extensive work on the intersection of technology, neuroscience, and ethics makes him uniquely positioned to teach this critical content.

Drawing from real-world cases, professional codes of ethics, and current research, Prof. Corbin presents a balanced and practical approach to clinical practice in digital spaces. Participants will gain both a theoretical framework and actionable strategies to uphold ethical standards while leveraging technology to support client care.

This course explores the ethical implications of e-therapy and telehealth, the use of mobile mental health applications, client confidentiality and consent, secure technology platforms, HIPAA compliance, and the risks and benefits of providing services across state lines. Participants will also review best practices in evaluating mental health apps, the growing role of asynchronous and synchronous platforms, and how technology is transforming client engagement and supervision.

Key Takeaways:

• Clarify ethical responsibilities: Understand professional guidelines for practicing across digital platforms and with emerging technologies.

• Know your tech limits: Learn where technology enhances care—and where it might compromise confidentiality, clinical quality, or legal compliance.

• Expand your clinical toolkit: Discover alternative methods for service delivery in a tech-integrated practice landscape.

Why this course?

• Expert-led instruction: Learn from an accomplished clinician-educator with deep expertise in ethics, clinical supervision, and technology in practice.

• Real-world application: Gain tools and strategies that immediately apply to your day-to-day work in telehealth and e-therapy settings.

• Trusted provider: Telehealth Certification Institute is committed to excellence, innovation, and empowering clinicians with relevant, high-quality training.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify ethical guidelines for e-therapy and related practices such as tele-medicine

• Demonstrate knowledge of the utility and limits to practice employing technology

• List alternative clinical practices and options in the Age of Connection

Whether you're expanding your telehealth services, reassessing your ethical practices, or simply striving to provide better care in the digital age, this course will guide you toward confident, compliant, and compassionate practice. Add this essential training to your professional development today.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About James R. Corbin, MSW, LCSW

Prof. Corbin received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his Masters Degree in Social Work from Temple University. He is a doctoral candidate from the Clinical Social Work Institute in Washington, DC. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Pennsylvania with a specialty in childhood mental illness and individual and family therapy with children, adolescents, adults, and their families. He has worked for over 25 years in the mental health field including eight years at Hoffman Homes for Youth in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and had most recently served as their Assistant Director of Clinical Services. He was appointed in the spring of 2002 as Adjunct Faculty Member and fall 2002 through spring 2008 as Visiting Instructor/Lecturer of Social Work at McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College) and served as their BSW Program Director. From 2008-2018, he has served as full-time clinical faculty and instructor in the graduate school of social work at Temple University and was former Assistant MSW Program Director and Clinical Director of the Military Family Center at Temple – a counseling center for military service members, veterans, and their families. He is happy to join Elizabethtown College in the fall of 2021 as the Social Work Program Director!

He has written and presented extensively on the subject of neuroscience and its impact on clinical practice and has been a featured presenter for the National Association of Social Workers at their Annual Conference. An article on the biopsychosocial implications of attachment was published in the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. He was a featured guest on the NPR program “Radio Smart Talk” as an expert on the subject of Reactive Attachment Disorder. Two articles on clinical supervision and ethics in practice appear in separate issues of The New Social Worker journal. He published an article on the ethical implications for disclosure of HIV status in The Journal of Clinical Ethics. He had received training in child-centered play therapy and had practiced as a child and family therapist for The Play Therapy Center and is a former associate with D.K. Watkins Psychology Associates in York, Pennsylvania. He had practiced privately in the outpatient setting at Pennsylvania Counseling Services. Additionally, he had served as clinical supervisor for their school-based program in the York City Schools. He has been in part-time practice at Northeastern Counseling Services in Mechanicsburg, PA since 2016.

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Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 1 ethics continuing education hour of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1 ethics continuing education credit.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists: 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 60 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

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