Introduction to Telehealth: Clinical, Wellness and Cultivation of Practice Approaches

Presented by: Erica Bosque, Ed.D., LCSW, PPSC via Zoom.

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As our communities moved into shelter in place during the pandemic, there was an immediate requirement to move the delivering of behavioral health services to technologically based communications. Telehealth became and has stayed as a primary means of delivering services to clients for California licensed and non-licensed social workers to provider ethical, legal and clinically compliant, effective supportive care. This course focuses on important information about the ethical, legal standards and guidelines required by the Board of Behavioral Sciences for California licensed and non-licensed social workers to provide telehealth. In addition, this course will offer resources and discussion for providers to attune to their self-care and develop their telehealth "style", approaches when working with their clients through a screen.

Objectives:

• Identify ethical, legal and professional standards, approaches and consequences, when providing telehealth services to a range of client populations.
• Identify and discuss special issues and concerns related to competence, provider practices, informed consent, risks, benefits and confidentiality.
• To offer resources that cultivate clinical and social work telehealth practices that support providers strengths and areas of growth; in order to maintain high quality care for clients and self-care for providers.