Telehealth Kids + Crisis‑Ready Bundle

Description

Navigating the digital space with young clients requires balancing a complex matrix of developmental needs, family dynamics, and legal boundaries, all while managing high-stakes clinical crises like suicidality or psychosis through a screen. Without a specialized, ethically grounded framework, clinicians face the overwhelming challenge of ensuring client safety and clinical efficacy without sacrificing professional peace of mind.

The Telehealth Kids + Crisis-Ready Bundle serves as the definitive, steadying force for clinicians looking to master the intricacies of modern virtual practice. This comprehensive collection of post-graduate continuing education courses integrates developmentally appropriate play-based interventions with rigorous crisis-management protocols and airtight documentation strategies. By bridging the gap between digital care and real-world clinical excellence, this bundle equips you to confidently protect your clients, your practice, and your license.

This bundle features the collective expertise of renowned leaders in child psychology and virtual care. Dr. Amy Marschall, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified telemental health expert, and author who has built her career on trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, and neurodiversity-affirming care for children, adolescents, and adults. She translates complex legal standards and high-acuity crisis interventions into accessible, real-world practices. Joining her is Dr. Ritchie Rubio, a seasoned clinical child psychologist, expressive arts therapist, and public mental health leader who brings a deep well of international experience working with multicultural youth.

Designed for busy professionals, these non-interactive, self-study courses reject pure theory in favor of an actionable, case-informed approach. Each module seamlessly blends evidence-based clinical models with real-world case illustrations, practical toolkits, and ready-to-use scripts. Through 14.5 hours of engaging recorded video instruction, you will learn how to effectively transform traditional, in-person interventions into dynamic, high-impact virtual workflows.

Across this entire bundle, participants will dive into an expansive spectrum of critical themes, including age-appropriate diagnostic documentation, SOAP/BIRP note structures, custody agreements, and best practices for guardian communication. The curriculum spans innovative tele-play techniques using virtual tools like digital sandtrays, Minecraft, collaborative family games, and bibliotherapy, alongside culturally responsive frameworks for BIPOC families. Furthermore, it details rigorous screening tools—such as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), the DAST-10, and the HARK—and safety planning protocols for active suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury, substance misuse, psychosis, dissociation, and domestic violence.

Key Takeaways:

• Master Virtual Engagement: Learn to apply technology-enhanced play, storytelling, and expressive arts interventions to effectively support children and very young children in virtual settings.
• Document with Defensible Clarity: Learn how to document clinical interventions, assessments, and treatment plans for minor clients in ways that meet rigorous ethical and legal standards.
• Manage High-Acuity Crises: Gain a comprehensive, evidence-based roadmap for ethically managing high-risk clinical symptoms like suicidality, psychosis, dissociation, and domestic violence through a digital screen.
• Deliver Culturally Responsive Care: Discover how to tailor virtual interventions to BIPOC families with respect, creativity, and clinical excellence.

Why this course bundle?

• Expert Faculty Leadership: Gain insights directly from specialized child psychologists, authors, and certified telemental health experts with years of hands-on, real-world clinical experience.
• Immediately Actionable Toolkits: Leave with tools, scripts, games, and validated screening platforms that you can implement in your practice right away to improve clinical outcomes.
• Comprehensive Integrative Content: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, a trusted leader in behavioral health education dedicated to empowering professionals with the exceptional skills needed to elevate client care.

Enroll in the Telehealth Kids + Crisis‑Ready Bundle today to transform your virtual workflows, protect your practice, and become the exceptionally prepared clinician that families can trust in critical moments.

Format and Access

Instruction consists of a total of over 14.5 hours of video instruction, and a post-test for each course.  Each course is a non-interactive, recorded self-study.

Individual Course Information

Upon registration, the following courses will be added to your account:

1. Clinical Documentation with Children and Adolescents

Clinical documentation for minors isn’t just a task—it’s a delicate and high-stakes balancing act that impacts a young client’s safety, autonomy, trust, and care outcomes. Documenting ethically, legally, and compassionately can make or break a therapeutic relationship, especially when guardians, systems, and developmental differences are involved.

Clinicians working with children and adolescents need more than templates and checklists—they need clear guidance that respects the complexities of family systems, confidentiality laws, billing, and consent. This course empowers you to approach documentation with clarity, competence, and confidence.

Topics include age-appropriate diagnostic documentation, SMART and PACT goal-setting in treatment plans, billing codes, SOAP and BIRP note structures, mental status exams, documentation related to consent and custody agreements, best practices for guardian communication, risk assessment and safety planning, letters for accommodations or court, and protecting confidentiality in a digitized healthcare system.

Learning Objectives:

• Design treatment plans and documentation of clinical interventions for minor clients that maintain legal and ethical standards.
• Assess concerns of confidentiality and privacy for children and teen clients, and construct office policies that uphold these ethical ideals while maintaining documentation standards.
• Accurately diagnose child and adolescent clients based on age and developmental level, with appropriate justification and documentation of symptoms.

2. Telehealth and Play-Based Interventions

Children don’t always have the words to tell us what’s wrong—but in play, they show us everything. For clinicians providing telehealth services to children and families, this course bridges the gap between in-person connection and digital care.

Telehealth and play-based therapy are not mutually exclusive—and with the right skills and strategies, you can confidently and ethically deliver high-impact support that meets your young clients right where they are.

Topics include translating in-person play techniques to virtual platforms, navigating parent involvement, creating your own interventions based on theory and treatment goals, assessing client appropriateness for telehealth, and using virtual tools like Minecraft, sand trays, and collaborative family games to enhance therapeutic outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

• Critically analyze research behind the efficacy of telehealth with play-based interventions.
• Construct scripts to educate clients and their parents about the benefits and limitations of telehealth with children.
• Employ at least ten play-based telehealth interventions in clinical practice and document their use in notes and treatment plans.
• Design, create, and implement additional play-based telehealth interventions based on theory and technical skills from this presentation.
• Integrate in-person play interventions in a telehealth platform effectively and following protocols for evidence-based play and teletherapy.

3. Telehealth with Children and Very Young Children

When working with children and very young children via telehealth, you’re not just navigating a screen—you’re navigating their world. For clinicians, the challenge of fostering connection, safety, and therapeutic progress with young clients online can feel overwhelming—especially when trauma, cultural complexity, and limited attention spans come into play.

In this powerful self-study course, you’ll gain strategies for engaging even your youngest clients in meaningful, evidence-based tele-play therapy. You’ll discover practical tools and culturally responsive frameworks that transform telehealth from a limitation into a therapeutic asset.

This course explores a wide range of telehealth adaptations and tools for work with children, including video-based interventions, child-parent relationship therapies, sandtray and play therapy, mindfulness, bibliotherapy, digital art therapy, and culturally adapted trauma treatments. It also highlights models like iPCIT, CPP, and SPICC, and emphasizes clinical engagement with caregivers as vital co-facilitators of therapeutic success.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and describe at least one developmentally-appropriate model for working effectively via telehealth with children who present with behavioral health issues.
• Appraise the applicability of at least two virtual play therapy tools for engaging behavioral health child clients in treatment using evidence-based practices.
• Illustrate at least two ways of using telehealth and tele-play therapy interventions in a culturally responsive manner when working with BIPOC children and their families.

4. Telehealth for Clients with High-Risk Symptoms

Managing high-risk clinical symptoms like suicidality, psychosis, and domestic violence requires more than standard therapeutic skill; it demands a specialized framework for ensuring safety through a digital screen. While many clinicians fear that telehealth amplifies risk, evidence shows that virtual care is just as effective and potentially lifesaving when delivered with appropriate protocols and confidence.

This on-demand training provides a comprehensive, evidence-based roadmap for ethically managing high-acuity cases in a virtual setting. By exploring the latest peer-reviewed research and practical assessment strategies, participants gain the tools to move beyond "better than nothing" care toward clinical excellence and reliability.

The curriculum covers a wide spectrum of risk factors, including non-suicidal self-injury, active suicidality, substance misuse, and psychotic symptoms. Dr. Marschall dives into specific clinical tools like the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), the DAST-10, and the HARK for domestic violence screening. Key highlights include "Transcript Gold" strategies such as the "7-11 breathing technique," the "TIP" and "Dear Man" skills from DBT, and the "CUES" mnemonic for addressing intimate partner violence safely through the screen.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess clients for appropriateness for telehealth based on risk factors, including suicidal ideation, substance dependence, and abuse, using validated screening instruments.
• Transform existing therapeutic interventions and techniques for in-person sessions in a telehealth setting.
• Apply evidence-based therapeutic interventions for psychosis, dissociation, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, and self-harm behavior via telehealth platforms.
• Develop safety plans for clients experiencing abuse, self-harm, and high-risk behaviors utilizing telehealth platforms for service delivery.

As a behavioral health professional, your digital screen is a portal to healing, growth, and life-saving connection. This specialized training empowers you to meet your youngest and most vulnerable clients exactly where they are, transforming complex challenges and stories of pain into profound journeys of resilience. Enroll now in the Telehealth Kids + Crisis-Ready Bundle and become the exceptionally prepared, confident, and ethically grounded clinician that children and families can trust in their most critical moments.

Course Details

What is included: 

Enrollment in the Telehealth Kids + Crisis‑Ready Bundle includes:

• Four individual courses that offer a total of 14.5 CEs
• Instruction from seasoned experts in the field of pediatric telehealth and crisis management.
• Instruction material that addresses virtual play-therapy, digital crisis and clinical services provided to youth.

Who Should Attend: 

These courses are intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

These are non-interactive, self-study courses. Teaching methods include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend:

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructors and Disclosures

Instructors

About Dr. Amy Marschall, Psy.D.

Dr. Marschall earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut. She completed her pre-doctoral internship through the National Psychology Training Consortium and her post-doctoral residency at Family Psychological Center, PA.

Dr. Marschall has been in practice since 2016 and currently owns a private practice, RMH-Therapy, where she provides therapy primarily to children and adolescents and psychological evaluations. Her clinical specializations include trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming care, trauma therapy, autism, and ADHD.

She also provides ADHD assessments through ADHD Online and therapy services through Spring Health. She teaches continuing education through PESI, Spring Health, and the Telehealth Certification Institute.

Dr. Marschall is certified in telemental health and is the author of Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox and Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox: Volume 2.

She is also the author of the following: 

• I Don’t Want To Be Bad: A CBT Workbook for Kids, Parents, and the Professionals who Help Them
• Clinical Documentation with Children and Adolescents
• A Year of Resiliency: 465 Journal Prompts to Become Your Strongest Self
• Armani Doesn’t Feel Well: A Book to Help Sick Kids

She created a website, Resiliency Mental Health, to provide resources for therapists and anyone who wants to learn more about mental health.

About Ritchie Rubio Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Rubio works as a clinical child psychologist, play and expressive arts therapist, researcher-storyteller, program evaluator, statistical consultant, data analyst, telehealth trainer/consultant, and associate professor/lecturer in a variety of clinical and academic settings including public health systems, universities, pediatric hospitals, community mental health settings, schools, and research institutes in three countries: the Philippines, U.S.A., and New Zealand. He moved from the Philippines at the age of 25, completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a Child and Family emphasis from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) through a Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) grant. He is currently the Director of Practice Improvement and Analytics of the Children, Youth, and Families System of Care (CYF-SOC) Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at the San Francisco Department of Public Health in California, USA. In that role, he plans and coordinates a clinical practice improvement and evaluation program focused on identifying best trauma-informed and diversity-responsive practices; and utilizing implementation science to design and strengthen clinical assessment and interventions. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at the Counseling Psychology programs of the University of San Francisco and the Berkeley Wright Institute. He teaches courses such as Research and Statistics; Crisis and Trauma Counseling; Neuroscience; Child and Adolescent Counseling; Family Violence and Protection; Individual, and Family Development; and Clinical Assessment and Measures. His clinical work was/is primarily with immigrant and multicultural children/youth and their families. He mostly integrates psychodynamic, attachment, family systems, multicultural, expressive arts, play therapy, and CBT orientations.

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 program consists of a total of 14.5 continuing education hours of credit (3 of which is ethics, 1.5 of which are Play Therapy hours). (Individual courses offer separate certificates with CEs)

Play therapy credit available to mental health professionals & graduate students in a mental health program.

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 these courses receive a total of 3 ethics and 11.5 clinical continuing education credits.

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.

Play Therapists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC has been approved as a continuing education provider by the Association for Play Therapy: APT Approved Provider 21-633. Per the Association for Play Therapy (APT), play therapy training may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. APT alone holds the right to accept or deny any continuing education training at its discretion. This course qualifies as 1.5 non-contact continuing education Play Therapy credit.

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 870 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.

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