The use of electronic media and information technologies in behavioral health treatment, recovery support, and prevention programs is rapidly gaining acceptance. While these new technologies present new opportunities, they also present significant challenges. This program reviews various technology-based treatment and prevention tools and explains how these technologies are applicable to various behavioral health care settings. In addition, the material focuses on technical, ethical, and legal issues that arise in using these technologies in the context of behavioral health services, including scope of practice, professional competence, informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, security, licensing, and credentialing.

Format: Asynchronous, reading-based distance learning. Non-interactive.

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The program is adapted from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioral Health Services. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 60. HHS Publication No. (SMA) 15-4924. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2015.

TIP 60 Consensus Panel

Consensus Panels Chair

Lisa A. Marsch, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
Hanover, NH
Former Director, Center for Technology and Health
National Development and Research Institutes
New York, NY

Part 1 Consensus Panelists

Thomas J. Kim, M.D., M.P.H.
Austin, TX

Sarah Lord, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Center for Technology and Health
National Development and Research Institutes
Cambridge, MA

Richard N. Rosenthal, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
St. Luke??s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, NY

Cynthia B. Sternfeld, Ed.S.
Lambertville, NJ

Nancy R. VanDeMark, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Wheat Ridge, CO

Part 2 Consensus Panelists

Thelma McClosky Armstrong, M.A.
Director Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network
Billings, MT

Nancy R. VanDeMark, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Wheat Ridge, CO

Note: The information given indicates each participant??s affiliation as of 2011, when the panel was convened, and may no longer reflect the individual??s current affiliation.

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