Therapeutically Effective Techniques in Teletherapy via Video Conferencing
Friday, June 26, 2020
10:00AM - 11:00AM PDT
with Roy Huggins, LPC NCC
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 1 CE Credit (Applied at NASW)
Cost: Free for RVP Volunteer Providers
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers
What You Will Learn:
Any veteran of teletherapy can tell you that just firing up your favorite video program and calling the client isn’t enough for clinically effective and personally sustainable telehealth practice. Bad camera placement can leave you looking up a client’s nose, poor positioning and equipment choices can cause headaches and eye strain, small differences in microphone setup can cause super-distracting echo, and more.
The good news is that the problems of presenting on video are pretty easily solved with creativity, common hardware, and household furniture. Improving your video therapy techniques — and learning to help clients improve theirs — is one of the most exciting and enjoyable ways you can significantly improve your clinical effectiveness over teletherapy media.
This introductory-level course will take counselors, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and counseling and clinical psychologists through the most basic skills necessary for clinicians and clients to ensure that their video sessions are focused more on the work and less on the tech. We will provide concrete and immediately actionable guidance on lighting, camera placement, sitting posture, eye contact, preventing echo, dress, pre-session setup to avoid technical interruptions, monitor size, sitting distance from the camera, and when to use (or not use) smartphones.
Learning Objectives
- Use postures and positioning of equipment to improve the client’s felt sense of connection and reduce fatigue for the therapist.
- Position equipment and use interpersonal interactions to create a sense of eye contact and therapeutic presence over the video connection.
- Minimize risks of session interruption due to technical difficulties.
CE Faculty Roy Huggins
Roy Huggins, LPC NCC, is a counselor in private practice who also directs Person-Centered Tech. Roy worked as a professional web developer for 7 years before changing paths, and makes it his mission to grow clinicians’ understanding of the Internet and other electronic communications mediums for the future of our practices and our professions.
Roy is an adjunct instructor at the Portland State University Counseling program where he teaches Ethics, and is a member of the Zur Institute Advisory Board. He has acted as a subject matter expert on HIPAA, security and clinical use of technology for counseling licensure boards and both state and national mental health professional organizations. He has co-authored or authored 2 book chapters, and he routinely consults with mental health colleagues on ethical and practical issues surrounding tech in clinical practice. He served for 5 years on the Board of the Oregon Mental Health Counselors Association and then the Oregon Counseling Association as the Technology Committee Chair.
He really likes this stuff.
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503-954-2259
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