A Practitioner's Guide to Telemental Health: How to Conduct Legal, Ethical, and Evidence-Based Telepractice - Softcover

Luxton, David D.; Nelson, Eve-Lynn; Maheu, Marlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433842769 ISBN 13: 9781433842764

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2023

Synopsis

Now in its second edition, A Practitioner's Guide to Telemental Health is significantly updated with coverage of current best practices, evidence-based recommendations, and attention to nuanced refinements of telemental health in the face of recent accelerated growth in the field, due in part to the Covid- 9 pandemic.

Telemental health, or TMH, has become integral to nearly all aspects of behavioral health service, including research and delivery of treatment, assessment, psychoeducation, training, supervision, and consultation. This has removed significant barriers to care access for many underserved groups however, it also means that the field overall must build its capacity to provide TMH.

This book is for seasoned clinicians as well as new providers preparing to enter the mental and behavioral health care professions. Its chapters provide a guide for increasing TMH competencies, which require keeping up-to-date with the scientific evidence base and ongoing collegial discussion with informed leaders in the clinical, ethical, and legal realms.

Readers will benefit from the research presented, as well as the description of practical steps they can take to ensure they are providing rewarding, safe, and quality TMH care for their patients.

About this title

About the Author

David D. Luxton, PhD, MS, is an affiliate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, and the founder of Luxton Labs LLC and Wayfarer Records LLC. Dr. Luxton's research and writing focus on the development and evaluation of innovative technologies in healthcare with specializations in artificial intelligence and ethics, telehealth, military and veterans amp rsquo health, and forensic psychology. He amp rsquo s a licensed clinical psychologist and served in the United States Air Force.

Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD, LP, FATA, is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Kansas. Securing over $4 million in federal funds over her career, Dr. Nelson amp rsquo s research focuses on the evaluation of evidence-supported, patient-centered approaches in low-resource communities, including the evaluation of the array of telehealth technologies to deliver clinical and educational programming. She pioneered school-based telebehavioral health with her multi-state Telehealth ROCKS initiative (www.telehealthrocks.org) extending telebehavioral health best practices and social services support to set children up for success in the classroom and in life.

Marlene M. Maheu, PhD, is a telehealth consultant, author, publisher, trainer, and the founder of Telehealth.org, LLC. She has served on a dozen professional association committees and task forces related to telemental health, written five telehealth textbooks, 5 + book chapters, and journal articles, and trained more than , professionals in telehealth since 994. She was the lead author of the first published competencies for telemental health and now serves as an expert witness in telehealth-related legal cases. Her 55 telehealth newsletters are read by more than 5, , professionals annually. She founded the non-profit Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (ctibs.org) and its journal, the Journal for Technology in Behavioral Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433842769
• ISBN 13: 9781433842764
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176