Rural Behavioral Health: Telehealth Challenges and Opportunities (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course looks at telehealth as an opportunity to expand behavioral health care for rural communities and to provide greater access to services, providers, and specialties. The course explores the benefits of telehealth that include improved access to qualified professionals, confidentiality, privacy, and accessibility. Challenges to implementing telehealth care are also discussed, including issues of internet access, insurance coverage, and varying state regulations.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Readings: Rural Behavioral Health: Telehealth Challenges and Opportunities
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/RuralBehavioralHealth-TelehealthChallengesandOpportunities.pdf
Publisher: SAMHSA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by exploring behavioral telehealth in rural communities.
Learning Objectives: Compare the opportunities and challenges for telehealth in rural communities. Describe the benefits of telehealth on issues of privacy, confidentiality, and accesssibility. Identify challenges for implementing telehealth.
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: 9/6/2018 - 9/6/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credit.
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.