Conducting Telehealth Intakes

Time: 9:00am-12:00pm

Location: Virtual

Instructor: Dr. Sara Smucker Barnwell, Ph.D., MA, M.Ed.

CE credits: 3.0 (pending)

Course Description:

This workshop will address the fundamentals of remote telepsychological intake. Workshop will address the logistics of preparing one’s practice (e.g., technology selection, preparing one’s office, documentation) and emphasize themes of clinical rapport, engagement, and assessment during a remote intake.

Learning objectives. 

At the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Identify three (3) inclusion/exclusion criteria for providing an intake via telepsychology.
• Demonstrate appropriate selection of technologies when performing intake assessments via telepsychology.
• Apply three (3) best practices when adapting clinical interviewing to the telepsychology milieu.
• Utilize accurate billing practices for telepsychological intake assessments.

References:

Cooper, S. E., Campbell, L. F., & Smucker Barnwell, S. (2019). Telepsychology: A primer for counseling psychologists. The Counseling Psychologist, 47(8), 1074–1114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000019895276

Saenz, J. J., Sahu, A., Tarlow, K., & Chang, J. (2020). Telepsychology: Training perspectives. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76(6), 1101–1107. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22875

Wykes, T., Lipshitz, J., & Schueller, S. M. (2019). Towards the design of ethical standards related to digital mental health and all its applications. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 6(3), 232–242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40501-019-00180-0