[CANCELED] Five Mistakes to Avoid When Counseling Online

This continuing education training will cover tools mental health practitioners need to start an online practice and provide effective telemental health treatment, as well as discuss five mistakes for clinicians to avoid when counseling online. 

In this 2-hour web conference, Amber Alexander, MA, LPC-S, NCC, CCMHC, BC-TMH will examine indicators of the future of mental health care and discuss the possible benefits and risks of online counseling. Amber will cover ways online counseling can be beneficial for clinicians and their clients as well as tools that support clinicians in successfully practicing online. She will also unpack potential pitfalls for clinicians to avoid when providing online counseling. 

Amber will review The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) distance counseling ethical guidelines and some of the major considerations required when counseling online. These considerations include required documentation, what needs to be included in informed consent, HIPAA concerns, screening clients, verifying client’s identity and location, and maintaining professional boundaries online. 

This course is taught in a straightforward and practical manner to ensure the topics covered are helpful to practicing clinicians. This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Analyze the importance of privacy and impact of HIPAA violations.
2. Apply appropriate client screening for online counseling.
3. Prepare policy for verifying identity and location of potential clients.
4. Discuss key components of telecounseling informed consent.
5. Create policies to maintain professional boundaries with online counseling.

If you have any questions, please contact us here.

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: The materials presented are accurate and based on empirical based references. 

Declaration of conflicts of interest and commercial support: None. 

Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

This organization, GoodTherapy, provider #1352, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 03/30/2019 - 03/30/2022. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 2 clinical continuing education clock hours. 

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. GoodTherapy.org received APA approval in May 2011. Events after 2011 may meet APA requirements for Continuing Education credits.

GoodTherapy, 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-0395.

GoodTherapy, 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-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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