"What Next?": Toward telebehavioral health sustainability in couple and family therapy.
J Marital Fam Ther
; 47(3): 551-565, 2021 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1169822
ABSTRACT
As a response to the COVID-19 global crisis, many in the couple/marital and family therapy (CMFT) professional community quickly met the challenge of providing services to clients via telebehavioral health (TBH) services. As this public health emergency endures, family therapists must continue to engage in TBH practice professionally and ethically. The rapid adoption of TBH with minimal training and experience during this public health emergency can result in crises for both individual therapists as well as for the profession in implementing electronic record-keeping, conducting virtual sessions, and communicating online with various clinical populations. The risk of insufficient training and supervision create a challenge to new and experienced family therapists. This article summarizes the work done by the profession thus far to respond to this public health emergency and presents a roadmap of recommendations for navigating those challenges into the future and offers ideas about how to sustain quality TBH practice.
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Main subject:
Professional Practice
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Health Personnel
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Telemedicine
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Guidelines as Topic
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Couples Therapy
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Family Therapy
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Mental Health Services
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Marital Fam Ther
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jmft.12510
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