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The course: Ethics and Distance Therapy: Navigating the Most Challenging Issues with Teletherapy by Terry Casey

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This three-hour training will equip you with essential knowledge, tools, and resources that you need for the ethical and legal provision of distance therapy services and, additionally, will provide an effective method for navigating any type of professional problem or dilemma.

Watch Terry Casey, PhD, ethics expert, and learn what he has identified during his years of experience as the important Six Keys to Distance Therapy as well as other need-to-know ethical, legal, and professional issues pertaining to distance therapy. Using an easy-to-use decision-making method, you will be guided through several distance therapy-related scenarios illustrating how to arrive at ethically and legally sound decisions.

In addition, this seminar provides numerous supplemental resources and links designed to aid you in finding the answers you need beyond the day of the seminar…sign up today!

1. Determine how to navigate codes of ethics, laws and licensing rules pertaining to the provision of distance therapy services.
2. Evaluate the essential ethical and legal-related issues pertaining to the use of distance therapy.
3. Utilize strategies and methods for avoiding ethical and legal problems as the use of distance therapy evolves.

Navigating Ethical Issues

The Multiple Perspective Model©: An effective and easy-to-use method

Step #1 – Evaluate the problem from the five key perspectives

• Ethical issues – applicable code(s) of ethics
• Legal issues – federal laws, state laws & licensing rules
• Clinical-therapeutic issues
• Institutional policies
• Therapist’s variables & issues

Step #2 – Identify, search & review the appropriate code(s) of ethics

• Foundational principles
• Standards
• Glossary or list of definitions

Step #3 – Consultation

• Consult with colleagues who you know well
• Consult with professionals who can be fully objective

Step #4 – Decision and documentation – Show your work!

• Who, what, where & when
• Narrative descriptions
• A guide for how to make your decision

Navigating Distance Therapy: The Six Keys to Distance Therapy

Key #1 – Technology must meet HIPAA requirements

• What HIPAA compliance means
• Business associates & BAAs
• When FERPA applies rather than HIPAA

Key #2 – Interjurisdictional practice

• Authority limits of state licensing boards
• Therapy for a client/patient who is in another state
• When the provider is in a state other than the one in which she/he is licensed

Key #3 – Competence

• State-mandated training requirements
• Actual competence to practice

Key #4 – Informed Consent

• Setting up a distance therapy-specific process
• Topics & issues to include in the process

Key #5 – Institutional / private practice policies

• The purpose of policies
• Considerations for writing policies

Key #6 – Insurance related issues

• Clients’ health insurance policies
• Coverage for distance therapy
• Limitations of benefits
• Provider’s liability insurance: Possible limitations

Distance therapy-related vignettes

Strategies & Methods for Avoiding Ethical and Legal Problems

• Secure Internet access
• Importance of business associate agreement (BAA)
• Telehealth laws app
• Certification in distance therapy
• Establish a separate informed consent process
• A communication and social media policy
• And lots more…