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Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course examines the personal and professional experiences of mental health professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid pivot to telehealth. 36 mental health professionals participated in interviews and highlighted the following themes: responding to the pandemic, introducing telehealth, impact on professional practice, and the future of telehealth. The course explores the strengths and weaknesses related to the adoption of telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, implications for practice, and the future of telehealth.

Free State Social Work

This course uses communication theory to explore the benefits and challenges of communication technology on the social worker-client relationship. The course examines the importance of resolving ethical issues related to ICT use, digital literacy, and social work practice. The following ethical issues are highlighted: boundaries, client well-being, professional competence, privacy, confidentiality, cultural competence, and social justice.

Free State Social Work

This course explores social work boundary issues and ethical conflicts that result from a growing use of technology and remote contact with clients. The course examines three forms of boundary challenges encountered by social workers in the digital age: ethical judgments, ethical mistakes, and ethical misconduct.

Free State Social Work

This course explores current AI trends and future prospects for enhancing mental health. The course examines the transformative role of AI in mental healthcare and highlights applications in diagnosis, treatment, therapy delivery, monitoring, and follow-up. Current examples of AI tools are provided, including chatbot-based therapy, emotional health apps, and smart mental health tools. Strengths, limitations, and ethical considerations are discussed.

Free State Social Work

This course explores the history of artificial intelligence, the use of algorithms, and the influence of algorithms on areas of healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice. The course highlights concerns related to the implementation of AI that include injustices to marginalized groups. The course outlines four ways for social workers to advocate for digital inclusion and social justice: resist, regulate, reimagine, and reinforce.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

Explores ethical and legal considerations for AI development in healthcare, examining principles of privacy, confidentiality, autonomy, informed consent, beneficence, and nonmaleficence, with emphasis on bias, responsibility, and liability.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course examines key ethical considerations related to the use of mental health chatbots and highlights a 5-principle ethical framework that includes the principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy, justice, and explicability.

Free State Social Work

This course explores the ethical challenges of conversational AI in mental health care. The course highlights a literature review and identifies 10 main ethical themes: safety and harm; explicability, transparency, and trust; responsibility and accountability; empathy and humanness; justice; anthropomorphization and deception; autonomy; privacy and confidentiality; and effectiveness. A bioethical framework is utilized to discuss findings.

Zur Institute

Zur Institute

CE4Less

Telemental health, including telepsychiatry, telepsychology, and teletherapy, is a communication and information system that allows clinicians to provide psychiatric and behavioral health services using the telephone, videoconferencing, and the Internet.

CE4Less

Introductory-level learning material presenting social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists with information needed to implement telehealth therapy into the treatment of serious mental illness and substance use disorders, discussing need, benefits, challenges, effectiveness, and evaluation approaches.

CE4Less

This course addresses the specific ethical challenges, requirements, and demands of telehealth services through scenarios, literature review, and discussion. It is intended for California professionals and may be used to meet the training requirements for the provision of mental health services via telehealth, which must include content about law and ethics related to telehealth.

CE4Less

This course addresses the technology competencies, specific ethical challenges, requirements, and demands of telehealth services through scenarios, literature review, and discussion. Designed for human services and mental healthcare practitioners, including social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.

CE4Less

Presents information about ethical values, standards, and principles that guide client or patient care, as well as guidelines for making ethical decisions when dilemmas inevitably arise. Examines a wide variety of ethical challenges common to clinical practice and provides examples to apply these concepts to real world experience with clients. Discusses current research on emerging concerns such as dual relationships, telehealth, and social media.

CE4Less

This learning material meets the 12-hour California law and professional ethics pre-licensure requirement. Designed for mental health professionals this course explores the Statutes and Regulations Relating to the Practices of Professional Clinical Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Educational Psychology, Clinical Social Work.

CE4Less

A review of professional ethics and California-specific laws directing the practice of psychology, covering competence, confidentiality, informed consent, and mandatory reporting requirements.

Quantum Units Education

This course will review the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) guide, Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, in order to build awareness among health care professionals.

Quantum Units Education

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Build rapport, manage the therapeutic frame, and handle clinical emergencies effectively in a virtual care setting.

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Informed consent for telehealth, cross-state practice considerations, emergency protocols, and privacy-compliant documentation.