TeleMental Health Essentials - Satisfies Georgia Law
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Practicing telemental health without a mastery of cross-state jurisdictional regulations and collaborative crisis protocols leaves clinicians vulnerable to significant legal exposure and ethical pitfalls. This course provides the essential framework needed to navigate these digital complexities, ensuring that every remote session is grounded in professional excellence and rigorous risk mitigation. Exploring these critical strategies allows you to uphold the highest standards of care while safeguarding your license from the unique administrative challenges of virtual practice. Enrolling in this specialized training is an invitation to secure your professional future and provide a higher level of safety and confidentiality for the clients you serve in a digital space. This course is led by a team of authoritative voices in the field: Raymond Barrett, LMHC, an innovator who has helped shape national telemental health guidelines; Ann Ordway, JD, PhD, a legal expert and counselor educator with decades of experience in high-conflict dynamics and jurisdictional complexities; and Kelly Lannon, LPC, LCMHC, a crisis intervention specialist with extensive experience in silent monitoring and risk mitigation protocols. Their combined expertise ensures that the learning objectives are taught from a foundation of deep clinical knowledge, legal precision, and practical, real-world application. The instructors utilize a comprehensive approach that bridges the gap between abstract regulations and daily practice through evidence-based insights and step-by-step procedural guidance. By integrating real-world scenarios and collaborative crisis planning demonstrations, they empower clinicians to implement concrete solutions that enhance client safety and ensure administrative compliance across diverse settings. Telemental Health Essentials covers a broad spectrum of vital practice areas, including the analysis of cross-state jurisdictional regulations and the resolution of conflicting legal obligations between different locations. You will also explore strategies for identifying legal risks in remote delivery, integrating ethical codes into digital workflows to protect confidentiality, and adapting informed consent and documentation to address technology-specific requirements. Additionally, the course details how to develop collaborative crisis responses that incorporate cultural considerations and identify essential local emergency resources for the client’s physical location. By mastering these essentials, you join a community of clinicians dedicated to excellence, safety, and the highest standards of telemental health practice. We invite you to complete this course and equip yourself with the clarity and confidence required to thrive in today’s evolving digital landscape. This option was created especially to meet the training requirements of the Georgia Telemental Health Rule. It covers the six continuing education hours required by the Georgia Telemental Health Rule for Georgia Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists looking to meet this requirement for telemental health practice. This course is open to and applicable to any behavioral health professional in any state. This non-interactive, self-study program provides over six hours of video instruction and post-tests to solidify your competence in the foundational pillars of virtual care. From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework. This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services. This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation. Course access and completion instructions. Raymond Barrett is the founder and CEO of the Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC (TCI). A licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), 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. Ann Ordway, JD, PhD, has a law degree and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision. She is a retired family law attorney following approximately 20+ years of private practice in New Jersey, where she primarily worked with high conflict divorce dynamics, parenting coordination, and child advocacy. She received her MA and EdS in Counseling from Seton Hall University and completed her Practicum and Internship at the Counseling Services program on campus. Ann has been trained as a family mediator, a Guardian Ad Litem, and as a Parenting Coordinator. Clinical experience has included work with high-conflict families, victims of domestic violence, anger management with accused offenders of domestic violence, and school counseling. Ann has taught graduate-level clinical mental health and school counseling for nearly 14 years, both in-person and via distance learning. She was the College Academic Director of Counseling at a University in Phoenix, Arizona, and she is a former president of the Arizona Counseling Association. She is currently the program director at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, where she facilitates the delivery of trainings for an international, interdisciplinary audience of family law professionals. Dr. Ordway’s doctoral dissertation on the experiences of parenting coordinators working with high-conflict couples engaged in intimate partner violence dynamics is the foundation of her current research. She is a national and international presenter, and has published in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to high-conflict families, the impact of divorce on children, ethics, and the preparedness of counselors for court-involved roles and general court involvement. Kelly Lannon is a Licensed Professional Counselor in GA and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in NC. They obtained their MA in Community Mental Health Counseling from the University of Rochester. Kelly has spent more than 10 years working in crisis intervention and suicide prevention with the veteran and military populations. Over the past four years, they have been conducting silent monitoring of these services to ensure proper protocols and standards are being adhered to relating to mental and medical health, substance use, suicidal ideation, and risk of violence to others; ultimately ensuring risk mitigation and safety planning efforts are completed appropriately. Additionally, Kelly’s work in private practice focuses on trauma and grief within the veteran and 2SLGBTQQIPAA communities. Their therapeutic approach stems from Existential and Humanistic therapies, while integrating approaches from Decolonization, Multicultural, and Interpersonal Counseling. The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose. This course consists of 6 continuing education hours of credit (1.5 of which are ethics) 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. 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. 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 1.5 ethics continuing education credits and 4.5 clinical 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. 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. 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. 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. This course qualifies for 360 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. Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations. You can click on the following links to view our policies:Description
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