Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioral Health Services (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores technology in behavioral health treatment. It provides an overview of the potential utility of technology-based therapeutic tools, including telephone/ audio counseling and video/Web conferencing tools; self-directed, Web-based, and desktop computer-based therapeutic tools; Web-based text communication (email, chat, forums); and mobile technologies. The course explores emerging technologies such as ubiquitous computer technologies, ambient intelligence, and virtual reality. Legal and ethical considerations (confidentiality, privacy, security, informed consent) are also examined.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Readings: Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioral Health Services Part 1, Chapter 1
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/Technology-BasedTherapeuticToolsinBehavioralHealthServicesChapterOne.pdf
Publisher: SAMHSA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by exploring the potential utility of technology-based therapeutic tools.
Learning Objectives: Describe the potential utility of evidence-based TAC. Describe emerging technologies such as ubiquitous computing. Identify legal and ethical considerations in TAC.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, 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. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.