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A practitioner's guide to telemental health: How to conduct legal, ethical, and evidence-based telepractice.Introduction.

A practitioner's guide to telemental health: How to conduct legal, ethical, and evidence-based... The capability to provide behavioral health services with telecommunications technologies has greatly expanded avenues for behavioral and mental health professionals to provide quality care. This capability, which can be referred to as telemental health (TMH), has already extended to virtually all aspects of behavioral health service including the delivery of treatment, assessment, psychoeducation, supervision, and consultation. TMH has been used with almost every behavioral health diagnosis and across all age groups. To use any one of these technologies as a professional, however, requires competence and therefore appropriate training that includes competencies specific to the service delivered. Many of the issues associated with competent practice parallel those of conventional in-office services. However, professionals must extend competencies associated with existing skills practiced in traditional settings and also develop new skills that bridge the gaps created by geographical distance. Our purpose with this book, then, is to provide an essential how-to guide for conducting competent, ethical, and evidence-based TMH. In this guidebook, we focus primarily on the unique benefits and challenges of delivering real-time psychological services with videoconferencing equipment. This chapter introduces the book. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A practitioner's guide to telemental health: How to conduct legal, ethical, and evidence-based telepractice.Introduction.

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 American Psychological Association
ISBN
978-1-4338-2227-8
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3 –8
DOI
10.1037/14938-001
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Abstract

The capability to provide behavioral health services with telecommunications technologies has greatly expanded avenues for behavioral and mental health professionals to provide quality care. This capability, which can be referred to as telemental health (TMH), has already extended to virtually all aspects of behavioral health service including the delivery of treatment, assessment, psychoeducation, supervision, and consultation. TMH has been used with almost every behavioral health diagnosis and across all age groups. To use any one of these technologies as a professional, however, requires competence and therefore appropriate training that includes competencies specific to the service delivered. Many of the issues associated with competent practice parallel those of conventional in-office services. However, professionals must extend competencies associated with existing skills practiced in traditional settings and also develop new skills that bridge the gaps created by geographical distance. Our purpose with this book, then, is to provide an essential how-to guide for conducting competent, ethical, and evidence-based TMH. In this guidebook, we focus primarily on the unique benefits and challenges of delivering real-time psychological services with videoconferencing equipment. This chapter introduces the book. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Jun 27, 2016

Keywords: telemental health; behavioral health services; telecommunications technologies; competency

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