Presenter: Roy Huggins, LPC, NCC

Original Date: December 4, 2021

• Consent Elements/ Assessing appropriateness.
• Medium, Ethical lenses, Varied considerations in appropriateness.
• Informed consent and connecting the patient to the process of self care involved.
• Special considerations of the therapy dyad.
• Sample form.
• Risk benefit analysis: Sample Risk Analysis form – need to do and when to do. Some states require.
• Pre-Assessment.
• Preassessment and some insurances.
• Safety planning and practices.
• Equipment-Hardware-Software review.
• HIPAA and COVID variations.
• Physiology of a session and connection to standards.
• Gaze, postures, observing client, distance from screen, eye contact.
• Online disinhibition effect.
• Telehealth and coverage/payment parity concerns.

2.0 Ethics CEUs approved by OBNM