Backup Plans for Failed Software, Internet Connections, and More
Good teletherapy practice calls for backup plans even in the best of times. During COVID, the need for contingencies and patience is increased.
Retaining Clients and Generally Succeeding with Teletherapy
We’ve gotten some good observational data from various group practice owners about what is helping clinicians retain clients during COVID and what is not.
Avoiding Teletherapy Strains and Fatigue
Doing therapy over video can tax muscles if you’re using poor body mechanics. Also, the changes which reduce fatigue can deliver better clinical services.
Alternatives to Zoom for Groups and Family Therapy
Our concerns about Zoom and health privacy have deepened recently, which prompts the question of alternatives for group therapy. We provide a few options.
How to Leverage Your Group to Make a Great Telemental Health Practice: Informational Webinar
Like every mental health care provider at this moment, you’re faced with navigating the transition to providing client care via telemental health. As a group practice leader, you’re navigating this change not just for yourself, but for your whole team.
How can you manage this transition in a way that ensures the provision of clinically-effective standards-based care? What components do you need to have in place to facilitate this transition in a way that not only meets and responds to current needs, but also positions your practice to be strengthened by it in a way that will serve it in the long-term and position you to capture the opportunities that having a telemental health component of your practice can provide?
Zoom Might Be Bad For Therapy
Zoom’s boom has made privacy issues become apparent. Those issues doesn’t leave us feeling confident that Zoom is something we can recommend for healthcare.
Pro Bono Webinar: Reality Checks: Telehealth Standards Of Care in Emergency Times
This event has passed. The recording can be found on our front page. See the Front Page What does a therapist do when they have no choice but to engage in a modality or medium they have no previous experience with? They go get competence to the standard of care as fast as they can, […]
Is Your Therapy Practice an “Essential Service”?
Therapists across the country are unsure if our practices are “essential services” — especially since we’re all doing telehealth now, anyways. Are they?
Facetime or Facebook Messenger Video and HIPAA Compliance? Yes! (For Now)
The HIPAA people declared today that they are greatly reducing restrictions on which video services HIPAA covered entities can legally use.
Emergency Telemental Health Implementation: Moving Fast While Maintaining Standard of Care
This free event will help mental/behavioral health clinicians get moving with telehealth quickly while still maintaining at least a minimum standard of care