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How to ID a New Patient or Client Online?
Consumers have forged fake ID cards for decades. Even high school kids know how to use phoney ID cards to gain entrance to clubs with bouncers directly examining those IDs with flashlights. Is it adequate for us as mental health professionals to simply ask a distant client to fax, scan or mail a driver’s license [...]
Full StoryPracticing Over State Lines: Licensure Portability Update
In response to a question about licensing as posed by a new member of our LinkedIn group, called “TeleMental Health Institute,” I wrote this recent recap of my views: Kudos for seeking clarification of current licensing issues. If you want to work with clients who have moved out of state, you might consider contacting the [...]
Full StorySuicide Preparedness: 7 Strategies for Telemental Health or Online Therapy
Potentially suicidal clients and patients pose one of the most rigorous challenges faced by telemental health professionals. This brief article will give a glimpse of the advance preparation you might consider. Institutional Telemental Health Practice Many institutional work settings already have emergency response systems in place. Examples of such organizations include the military, the [...]
Full StoryWebinar Recording: 7 Essential Facts about Licensure for Practice Across State or International Borders
Does your client want to continue therapy after moving to another state or country? Does your patient spend the summer in another state? Are you moving to another state and want to continue treating your original clients? In all these instances, can you legitimately bridge the distance by delivering services online? Some states have licensing [...]
Full StoryCross-border Practice Online: Worth Re-considering?
You may have heard colleagues and perhaps even “ethics” speakers condone the delivery of healthcare over state and national borders without first getting licensed in those foreign areas. The rationale? It boils down to “nobody is watching” or the belief that you won’t “get caught.” Our colleagues claim that licensing boards are not enforcing existing [...]
Full StoryLicensure: Practicing Over State Lines with Telehealth
In 2009, a Colorado doctor was found guilty of practicing medicine without a license in California after prescribing an antidepressant via an online pharmacy to a 19-year-old student. The student committed suicide. The doctor was given a nine-month jail sentence. Was his crime any different from the regular practice of many healthcare professionals online today? [...]
Full Story17 Questions to Answer Before Working with Consumers Online as a Licensed Mental Health Professional
What might a consumer want to know when hiring you to work as a “licensed” professional? These 17 questions were sparked by an interview with a journalist who asked me what a consumer might need to consider when hiring a professional online. The questions then, are meant to help both professionals and consumers think about the issues their online therapists should address, at least when asked, if not before delivering professional care.
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