Email and Texting in Mental Health Practice: Legal-Ethical and Risk Management Issues

Course Materials

Email and HIPAA Compliant Practice: Is It Possible?
Texting and HIPAA Compliant Practice
Chapter 2: To Secure Or Not To Secure? A Pretty Important Question.
Even Though They Have a Right Under HIPAA To Unencrypted Emails: A Case For Only Using Secure Email and Texting With Clients
Clients Have the Right to Receive Unencrypted Emails (and Texts) Under HIPAA
Non-Internet Risks in Email and Texts With Clients
Chapter 3: Professional Practice Around Email and Texting
Professionalism In Engaging With Clients by Email and Text
How Do You Document Emails and Text Messages Received From Clients?
Epilogue

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