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Conducting Therapy through Telehealth:

California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) Requirement

Online
3 CE Hours
General
Free

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When and Where

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Location

  • Live Webinar
    Access virtually on TPN.health
Description

Effective July 1, 2023, the California Board of Behavioral Sciences began requiring both applicants for licensure and licensees to have completed a minimum of three hours of training or coursework in the provision of mental health services via telehealth, which must include law and ethics related to telehealth. This course qualifies and satisfies the CA BBS requirement for a 3-hour training on the provision of mental health services via telehealth, including law and ethics related to telehealth.

The live training and On-Demand access to this workshop has been made FREE to users thanks to these Sponsors:

Complimentary access is for 3 months (11/22/2023 – 2/22/2024). After 2/22/2024, pricing for the training will be $60. 

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to fulfill the CA BBS requirement for a 3-hour training on the provision of mental health services via telehealth, including law and ethics related to telehealth.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least 2 forms of telehealth.

  • Identify which professionals need to comply with the July 1, 2023 CA BBS telehealth regulations.

  • Discuss 3 or more legal or ethical requirements for telehealth.

  • Explain the requirements for providing telehealth services for patients located outside of California.

  • Identify the 3 actions a therapist must take in each telehealth session.

CE Details
Intermediate
General

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
Agenda
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Training Begins
  • -
    5 Minute Break
  • -
    5 Minute Break
  • Training Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
This course is fiscally sponsored by Advanced Education Institute, Rising Roads Recovery, PACE Recovery Center and The Practice, OC. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
DaLene Forester, PhD, LMFT, LPCC

DaLene Forester, Ph.D. is dually licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Professional Clinical Counselor in California and is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in Nevada. Dr. Forester is EMDR Certified by EMDRIA, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and EMDR Trainer. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and the treatment of trauma. In 2007 Dr. Forester founded the Advanced Education Institute where she loves to provide clinical training to Mental Health professionals in EMDR Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Clinical Treatment of Eating Disorders, Telehealth, and more. Dr. Forester has presented professionally at AAMFT, EMDRIA, EMDR Canada, and Western Psychological Association (WPA) Conferences. She has two chapters published in EMDR Solutions II, R Shaprio(ed.), W.W. Norton & Company, 2009 and one chapter published in A. Seubert and P. Virdi’s (editors) Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders.

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