Introduction to Telehealth: Clinical and Program Perspective

Introduction to Telehealth: Clinical and Program Perspectives
(3 CEUs)

Instructor: Dr. Stan Taubman, LCSW, PhD

This course is designed for social workers implementing telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Format: Mixed-media 1 — Read online content that incorporates case vignettes, reader exercises, and web-based video clips.

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Course Agenda

1. Instructions
1. Pretest Instructions
2. Pretest
1. Course Overview
1. Introduction
2. Important Clarification
3. Print the Posttest Study Guide
1. California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) Information Regarding Telehealth
2. California Business and Professions Code (BPC) Section 2290.5: Telehealth Law
3. California Code of Regulations Section 1815.5: Standards of Practice for Telehealth
4. Legal and Ethical Standards for Telehealth
5. NASW Article—Telemental Health: Legal Considerations for Social Workers
1. NASW Code of Ethics: Competence
2. Competence and Technology Consultations
3. Required Video—Telemental Health Tips: Don’ts and Do’s (5:31 minutes)
1. NASW Code of Ethics: Informed Consent
2. California Telehealth Law and Client Consent
3. The Potential Benefits and Risks of Utilizing Telehealth Services
4. Potential Clinical Consequences of Utilizing Telehealth Practices
5. Additional Client-Specific Factors
6. Special Population Issues
7. Required Video: Telehealth with Children (12:02 minutes)
8. NASW Examples of Informed Consent for Telehealth
9. NASW National Resources and Training Related to Telehealth
1. Vignette Description and Reader Question
2. Vignette Discussion
3. Required Video: What to Expect from Your Telepsychiatry Appointment (3:18 minutes)
1. NASW Code of Ethics: Privacy and Confidentiality
2. Ensuring Security Measures
3. HIPAA Standards and Telehealth
4. Optional Resource: HIPAA Enforcement Actions
5. Optional Resource: NASW HIPAA Awareness and Compliance Training
1. Agency-Based Practice
2. Private Practice: Notification of Enforcement Discretion (COVID-19)
3. Optional Resource: Payment for Telehealth Services
1. American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Practice Guidelines
2. Optional Resource: Best Practices for Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health
3. 50 Practical Procedures for Telemental Health Developed by Dr. Taubman
4. Optional Video: Telebehavioral Health—What Every Provider Needs to Know
1. Conclusion
1. Technology and Telehealth Resources
2. COVID-19-Related Resources
1. Posttest
1. Evaluation

About this course

$27.00
44 lessons

Course Details

Course Description

In response to the COVID-19 national health emergency, organizations and private practices switched to the use of telehealth as a primary means of delivering behavioral health services for a year or more. As a result of that experience, many programs have adopted telehealth as a means to provide ethically sound, legally compliant, and clinically effective interventions at a distance. This course is designed for California licensed and non-licensed social workers who are now using telehealth services to meet the needs of their employers, clients, and communities. This course incorporates information regarding legal and ethical standards and guidelines and provides information specific to the current worldwide pandemic. While this course focuses on telehealth, the principles presented are also relevant to social services provided via technologically based communications.

Target Audience

This course was created for licensed and non-licensed social workers and behavioral health professionals who are required to implement telehealth (telemental health services). This course can be used toward the ongoing requirement for six hours of law and ethics training for California licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) license renewal.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course participants will be able to do the following:

Identify legal, ethical, and professional standards related to providing telehealth services, including special issues related to competence, informed consent, and confidentiality.
Identify potential clinical risks and benefits associated with providing telehealth services.
Identify potential clinical consequences of utilizing telehealth.

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