Career Paths in Telemental Health

This visionary volume spotlights innovative mental healthcareers in today's technology-driven climate while inspiring readers to createtheir own opportunities. Unique and engaging perspectives from professionals acrossdisciplines and job titles describe the thought processes, ingenuity, anddiscipline behind matching technologies to the needs of specific populationsand settings. These non-traditional paths show digital advances as used infrontline, complementary, supplemental, and alternative interventions, in academicand training settings, in private practice, and in systems facing transition. Thediversity of these contributions illustrates the myriad openings technologypresents for both professional fulfillment and clients' improved well-being. 
Highlights of the coverage: 

Crisis in the behavioral health classroom: enhancing knowledge, skills, and attitudes in telehealth training.
• Using technology in behavior analysis: a journey into telepractice.
• Making iCBT available in primary care settings: bridging the gap between research and regular healthcare.
• Improving veterans' access to trauma services through clinical video telehealth.
• Virtual reality therapy for treatment of psychological disorders.
• Promoting and evaluating evidence-based telepsychology interventions.

For mental health practitioners, practitioners in training,researchers, academics, and policymakers, CareerPaths in Telemental Health is an ideabook whose time has come-and continuesto unfold.

List of contents

I. Introduction.- Technology:Revolutionizing the Delivery of Health Behavior Change Interventions withIntegrated Care.-  TacklingChanges in Mental Health Practice: The Impact of Information Age Health Care.-  Crisisin the Behavioral Health Classroom: Enhancing Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudesin Telehealth Training.-  InternetGaming Disorder and Internet Addiction Disorder: Future Careers in Research,Education and Treatment.-  UsingTechnology in Behavior Analysis: A Journey into Telepractice.-  TheLaw of Telemental Health.- II. Special topics and Personal Perspectives.-  MakingiCBT Available in Primary Care Settings - Bridging the Gap Between Research andRegular Healthcare.- TechnologyUse in Behavioral Medicine Health.-  NewAdventures in Independent Practice: Leveraging Technology to Treat Underserved,Rural Populations in Skilled Nursing Facilities.- TelepsychiatryTakes Teamwork.- PersonalHealth Records, Patient Portals, and Mental Health Care.- Workwith Behavioral Health Technology.- Theaccidental telepsychologist: Creating opportunities in a burgeoning field.-  TreatingEmotional Consequences of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence via Telehealth.-  Engagingand Supporting Children and Families: Technology-Enhanced Services Research.-  TheApplication of Technology to an Academic Clinical Practice and Career:Evidence-based Medicine, Telepsychiatry, and Distance Education.-  EnhancingMindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with a Virtual Mindfulness Coach.-  GettingBetter: How a Client Satisfaction Survey Can Enhance Both Your Marketing andTreatment Outcomes.-  Howa decade of telemedicine has re-shaped a career.-  WorkSmarter, Not Harder: Expanding the Treatment Capacity of a UniversityCounseling Center Using Therapist-Assisted Online Treatment for Anxiety.-  ImprovingVeterans' Access to Trauma Services through Clinical Video Telehealth.-  Telemedicinein Genetic Counseling.-  Clinicianto Trainer to Technologist: The Wild and Wonderful Path eLearning and mHealth.-  FromPsychologist to EHRs Developer.-  APsychologist and a Software Developer.-  PrimaryCare Psychology in a Military Treatment Facility: The Internal BehavioralHealth Consultant (IBHC).- Promotingand Evaluating Evidence-Based Telepsychology Interventions: Lessons Learnedfrom the University of Kentucky Telepsychology Lab.-  VirtualReality Therapy for Treatment of Psychological Disorders.- MatchingPerson and Technology.-  IntegratingBehavioral Health into Rural Primary Care Clinics Utilizing a TeleMental HealthModel.-  Walkingthe Wire: Technologies across an Academic Career.-  Walkingthe Unmarked Path on Developing an Independent Telehealth Practice. 

About the author

Consultant, trainer, author and researcher, Marlene M.
Maheu, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the TeleMental Health
Institute, Inc., where she has overseen the development
and delivery of professional training in telemental health via an eLearning
platform that serves thousands of clinicians seeking professional training and
consultation from more than 39 countries worldwide.

For more than twenty years, Dr. Maheu's focus has the legal
and ethical risk management issues related to the use of technologies to better
serve behavioral health clients and patients. She has served on a dozen
professional association committees and task forces related to

establishing standards and guidelines telehealth. She
has written dozens of peer-reviewed articles and is lead author of multiple
telehealth textbooks. 

Dr. Maheu  is a technology developer and lectures
internationally on the subject of best practices in the use of various
technologies. She is a staunch advocate for technological change to reach more
people, reduce health care costs and improve the quality of care via self-help,
wireless technologies and telepractice.Kenneth Drude, Ph.D. has a doctorate in counseling psychology from the
University of Illinois. His telemental health interests include the ethics,
standards, guidelines, policy and regulation of telemental health practice, and
interprofessional relations. He chaired an Ohio Psychological Association committee
that developed the first psychological association telepsychology guidelines in
the United States in 2008.  Dr. Drude served on the Ohio Psychological
Association governing board for 28 years in various capacities and as editor of
The Ohio Psychologist. He currently is
the president of the Ohio Board of Psychology. He was a member of the
Association for State and Provincial Psychology Board's Telepsychology Task
Force that developed an interstate psychology compact.He currently provides
outpatient psychological services in a general private practice in Dayton,
Ohio.Dr. Shawna Wright is a licensed
psychologist in Kansas and Nebraska who works in private practice as a
telepsychologist.  She obtained her graduate training in clinical
psychology from Texas Tech University specializing in child and family
treatment.  She has worked for over a decade in community mental health in
southeastern Kansas as outpatient therapist.  She is currently an
operations manager for two community mental health center offices.
  Through her experience in community mental health, Dr. Wright is
acutely aware of the impact of the shortage of mental health providers in
underserved, rural areas, and she sees the promise of utilizing telehealth as a
medium for providing mental health services to this population.  In 2011,
Dr. Wright completed a comprehensive telemental health certificate training
program through the TeleMentalHealth Institute and initiated a private
practice providing telepsychology services to residents of rural nursing
facilities.  She is a member of the American Psychological Association
(APA), the Kansas Psychological Association (KPA), and the American
Telemedicine Association.  Dr. Wright has a keen interest in working
within these associations to develop standards, training, and resources to
assist psychologist who are interested in telepsychology careers.  She is
the membership chair for the Coalition of Technology in Behavioral Sciences
(CTiBS) and maintains aspirations
of sharing her professional experience to help advance
professional resources for telepsychologist through educational endeavors and
consultation.

Summary

This visionary volume spotlights innovative mental health
careers in today’s technology-driven climate while inspiring readers to create
their own opportunities. Unique and engaging perspectives from professionals across
disciplines and job titles describe the thought processes, ingenuity, and
discipline behind matching technologies to the needs of specific populations
and settings. These non-traditional paths show digital advances as used in
frontline, complementary, supplemental, and alternative interventions, in academic
and training settings, in private practice, and in systems facing transition. The
diversity of these contributions illustrates the myriad openings technology
presents for both professional fulfillment and clients’ improved well-being. Highlights of the coverage: 
Crisis
in the behavioral health classroom: enhancing knowledge, skills, and
attitudes in telehealth training.
Using
technology in behavior analysis: a journey into telepractice.
Making
iCBT available in primary care settings: bridging the gap between research
and regular healthcare.
Improving
veterans’ access to trauma services through clinical video telehealth.
Virtual
reality therapy for treatment of psychological disorders.
Promoting
and evaluating evidence-based telepsychology interventions.
For mental health practitioners, practitioners in training,
researchers, academics, and policymakers, Career
Paths in Telemental Health is an ideabook whose time has come—and continues
to unfold.

Product details

• Assisted by: Shawna D Wright (Editor), Kenneth P. Drude (Editor), Marlene M. Maheu (Editor), Kennet P Drude (Editor), Kenneth P Drude (Editor), Shawna D. Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319795287
• ISBN: 978-3-31-979528-7
• No. of pages: 309
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 528 g
• Illustrations: XXXI, 309 p. 2 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Supervision, B, Consulting, Medical counselling, Psychotherapy, Counseling, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Counseling Psychology, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching