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Telehealth Ethics for Today and For the Future:
Creating an A Online Practice! 3 CE Credits

3 CE Credits - Ethics, 3 CE Contact Hours

Have you suddenly found yourself seeing clients through your computer screen without having had training to be in this positions? Get a comprehensive understanding of the ins and outs of Telehealth, your responsibilities to your clients and their responsibilities to the relationship. learning the ethical requirements of Telehealth as well as how to achieve benefits for you as the therapist and for the people you are seeing through the computer.

 

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Telehealth Ethics for Today and For the Future:
Creating an A Online Practice! 3 CE Credits

Previously Recorded
$59.99 Sherrie L. Ludwick, LCPC, NCC, SEP

3 CE Credits - Ethics, 3 CE Contact Hours

Have you suddenly found yourself seeing clients through your computer screen without having had training to be in this positions? Get a comprehensive understanding of the ins and outs of Telehealth, your responsibilities to your clients and their responsibilities to the relationship. learning the ethical requirements of Telehealth as well as how to achieve benefits for you as the therapist and for the people you are seeing through the computer.

 

About the Presenter

Sherrie L. Ludwick, LCPC, NCC is a trauma specialist, trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE), Transforming the Experience-Based Brain (TEB) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), along with other techniques used to treat trauma. Sherrie is also an AASECT certified Sex Therapist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) certified by the Somatic Experiencing Institute. She has spent years studying and teaching HIPAA requirements around the use of technology for individual and group practices, which includes keeping up with the legal and ethical practices of telehealth.

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

Telehealth Ethics for Today and For the Future:
Creating an A Online Practice! 3 CE Credits

Previously Recorded

Presenter: Sherrie L. Ludwick, LCPC, NCC, SEP

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Course Length: 3 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain how HIPAA & Codes of Ethics inform Telehealth and the changes that resulted from Covid-19.
  2. Set up and utilize different telehealth equipment.
  3. Implement the expected Therapist & Client Responsibilities when using telehealth
  4. Identify what to do and not do in a telehealth session
  5. Differentiate between acceptable electronic payments and will describe awareness of insurance filing modifications

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

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3 CE Credits - Ethics, 3 CE Contact Hours

Have you suddenly found yourself seeing clients through your computer screen without having had training to be in this positions? Get a comprehensive understanding of the ins and outs of Telehealth, your responsibilities to your clients and their responsibilities to the relationship. learning the ethical requirements of Telehealth as well as how to achieve benefits for you as the therapist and for the people you are seeing through the computer.

 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain how HIPAA & Codes of Ethics inform Telehealth and the changes that resulted from Covid-19.
  2. Set up and utilize different telehealth equipment.
  3. Implement the expected Therapist & Client Responsibilities when using telehealth
  4. Identify what to do and not do in a telehealth session
  5. Differentiate between acceptable electronic payments and will describe awareness of insurance filing modifications

Agenda:
1. Introductions and Survey Questions (15 minutes)

2. HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules (15 minutes)
• Connection to Telehealth
• Keeping Telehealth Secure
• Protecting ePHI and the therapist.
• Why you shouldn’t use SMS, Skype or email for
Telehealth
 
3. Changes that came and went with Covid (30 minutes)
• What is the new normal
• How do we know what are responsibility is based on
license, location of client and therapist, and State.
• What personal risk management plans do we have?

4. Setting up for Telehealth (10 minutes)
• Lights, Monitor, Camera, Connections, Eye support
• Choosing a platform with BAA
• Client and therapist set up responsibilities

5. Responsibilities and what to be aware of During the
Telehealth Session (30 minutes)
• Initial vs on-going sessions
• What’s being seen on screen
• Online Disinhibition Effects
• American Telemedicine Association’s advice
• Video – What to do or not do in Video session
 
6. Things to do After the Session
• Document
• Billing
• Self- Care
 (30 minutes)

7. Differences in Intrastate, Interstate, and International
provisions (20 minutes)
• What are the laws?
• What is the culture and how does it differ from mine?
• What’s the support culture?

8. Reviewing the parts of Telehealth as per American
Psychological Association (15 minutes)

9. Wellness/Isolation Well-Being checklist (10 minutes)

10. Sharing forms
• Insurance
• Consents
• Expectations
• Explanations

11. Questions and Answers



This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
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  • NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
  • NEFESH International 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-0048.
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