Telemental Health and Using Online Disinhibition Effect for Good

Every year, the Returning Veterans Projects hosts continuing education trainings and partners with Star Behavioral Health for high-quality, research-based programs. We’re working to ensure providers have access to local and national experts who understand the challenges faced by veterans and military communities. These trainings are free for RVP Volunteers but are open to any health care provider who wants to improve how they serve veterans, service members, and their families.

We recently hosted Roy Huggins, LPC for his presentation “Using Online Disinhibition Effect for Good in Telemental Health” on June 11, 2021. This training looked at how online disinhibition effect (ODE) is one of few psychological phenomena that comes up only in computer-mediated interactions. ODE can benefit therapy and it can detract from therapy, and understanding and learning to work with ODE is essential to effective telemental health work. Attendees learned Suler’s description of the 6 factors of Online Disinhibition Effect, how they arise in therapy, and how they can cause therapy-interfering problems or therapy-assisting benefits.

Thanks to our generous sponsors - The Boeing Company and RALI-Oreon - we were able to provide this training free of charge to RVP Volunteers and other community health providers across Oregon and SW Washington. 

The Returning Veterans Project’s specific, innovative trainings enhance existing skills, build new ones, and give both mental and physical health care providers a full toolbox of resources to provide veterans, service members, and their families with the care that meets their needs – no matter which provider they chose.

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