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Kate and DeeAnna blog about etherapy, technology and mental health!

Lisa Kudrow’s comedy on Web Therapy

Lisa Kudrow stars as a therapist with limited patience for other peoples’ problems in this original improvised web series… I love her deadpan practical skills in sending files mid-session!

See a clip here: http://www.nhatky.in/lisa-kudrow-web-therapy-online-12338961 - enjoy!

Kate

Tue, June 30 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Top Ten Mental Health Tweeps from PsychCentral

Great article from PsychCentral which puts DeeAnna and OTI at the forefront of Twitter for Mental Health!!

7. @therapyonline “A wide lens is cast at the Online Therapy Institute ranging from email and chat to videoconferencing and Second Life.” DeeAnna Merz Nagel maintains this popular account with a focus that’s business-to-business for professionals who offer online therapy. She manages to share lots of intriguing info while straddling a thin line between professional organization and marketer - without falling into the dark side.

See http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/06/29/top-ten-psych-tweeps/ for the other tweep pageant winners in Mental Health!

Kate

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Mon, June 29 2009 » Awards, Online Therapy, Social Media » No Comments

American Counseling Association Launches a Blog!

The American Counseling Association has launched a blog that will offer posts of interest to people in the counseling profession.  ACA bloggers:

Paul Fornell has been a clinical counselor, a professor, a career counselor, and is currently ACA’s Director of Ethics and Professional Standards

Jessica Diaz is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland and an Affiliate Professor at Loyola College.

David Kaplan is a  Past-President of the American Counseling Association and it’s current Chief Professional Officer.

DeeAnna Merz Nagel is a clinical counselor, teacher, workshop presenter, sits on the ACA Cyber Technology Taskforce, and is co-founder of the Online Therapy Institute.

I am honored that ACA has asked me to join in!  Be sure to check it out:

http://my.counseling.org/

And follow ACA on Twitter!

http://twitter.com/CounselingViews

And please, if you are so inclined, comment on the ACA blog and RT on Twitter!

Have a great summer day!

DeeAnna

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Sun, June 28 2009 » Resources and other items of interest » 1 Comment

Ethical Issues of Cyberspace: Considerations for the Rehabilitation Counselor

Hi All- I will be presenting a short breakout session at the Metro NYC Chapter of the National Rehabilitation Association’s next training session on 6/25 at NYU. Please see the full agenda below!

Best,

DeeAnna

 

METROPOLITAN  NEW  YORK  CHAPTER

NATIONAL  REHABILITATION  ASSOCIATION,  INC.

presents a training session

 

“TODAY’S  REHABILITATION  REALITY: 

 ETHICS  AND  EMPLOYMENT”

Thursday, June 25, 2009     8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

 

New York University

Wasserman Center for Career Development

140 East 14th Street (or 133 East 13th Street)

between 3rd and 4th Avenues  2nd Floor

New York, NY 10003 

4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W subways to 14th Street Union Square 

 

8:30  Registration, refreshments 

9:00  Welcome

            Christopher Kempski, MS, LMHC, CRC

            President, Metropolitan New York Chapter, National      Rehabilitation Association, Inc.   

9:15  Awards 

10:00 “Ethical Issues of Cyberspace:  Considerations for the     Rehabilitation Counselor”

            DeeAnna Merz Nagel, LPC, LMHC, CRC, DCC

            Psychotherapist and Consultant, Private Practice (Rumson, NJ),

            Co-Founder, Online Therapy Institute  

11:30 Break 

11:45 “Employment in Challenging Times”

            Arnold Dorin, MA

            Regional Marketing Coordinator, NYC Region,

            NYS Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with    Disabilities (VESID) 

            Steve Towler, MA

            Director of Employment and Business Services,

            AHRC, NYC Chapter 

12:45  Lunch on your own 

2:00  “Who Takes Care of the Caretaker?  A Discussion of Ethical,    Moral, and Personal Obligations”

            Eleanor Abel, PA, MS, CRC

            Teaching Hospital Liaison, Department of Medicine,

            SUNY Upstate (Syracuse, NY) 

            Lise Mayo, MS, CRC

            Program Counselor, Mental Health Services,

            St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center (Syracuse, NY) 

3:30   Wrap-up and Evaluations  

4:00 –  Board meeting

5:00  (one additional CRC hour if you attend)  

4.0 CRC hours (3.0 ethics hours and 1.0 standard hour) have been requested.

Discount fee for NRA members, government employees, and students. 

For more info, please contact Paula Lee, MS, CRC

(212) 998-4749   tel   paula.lee@nyu.edu 

www.nymetronra.org

Mon, June 15 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments

New Textbook from OTI near completion!

“Mental Health and the Impact of Technological Development” (Anthony & Nagel, 2010) is a primary text for courses that teach distance counselling via technology and/or courses that teach about the enhancement of mental health services through the use of technology.  This book may also be used as an adjunct text for courses that include an introduction to mental health services or offer an introduction to the delivery of counseling services.  With ethical considerations offered throughout the text, adding the text to the list of required reading in any counseling, psychology or mental health ethics class is also extremely plausible. The text, co-authored by Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Merz Nagel, includes original contributions within key areas of mental health and technology.  These areas include: the use of text-based technology for conducting a therapeutic relationship, the use of text-based technology for enhancing client peer support, the use of alternative technology for conducting a therapeutic relationship, the use of alternative technology for enhancing client peer support, the use of text-based technology to enrich counselor training and supervision, and the use of alternative technology to enrich counselor training and supervision.
 
The introduction to the text, written by the co-editors, provides the framework for the readings, illustrating the technological impact to the practicing clinician and the field of mental health as a whole.  This book will make a unique contribution to the field as no other text delineates the use of technology in mental health for both clinicians and consumers, while underscoring ethical considerations for each application.
 
Technologies included are:
 
Email
Chat
Mobile/Cell phone SMS
Social Networking
Forums
Websites
Wikis
Blogs and blogging
Telephone
Videoconferencing
Virtual Reality environments
Virtual Reality Immersion
CCBT
Therapeutic Gaming
The role of film in therapy
Web-based assessment
Behavioural Telehealth
Podcasting
Self-help assessment
Text based Continuing Education
Research methods using Technology
Continuing Education utilising an experiential approach

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Fri, June 12 2009 » Research & Publication » 1 Comment

Listen to a Five Minute Interview About Online Therapy!

4FM Ireland’s Weekend Breakfast show with Michael Comyn interviewed Kate Anthony on Saturday May 30th about online therapy.  You can have a listen!   fm4ireland2 

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Tue, June 9 2009 » Online Therapy » 8 Comments

Radio Interview with Kate Anthony Sat 11.20!

4FM Ireland has a Weekend Breakfast show with Michael Comyn, and will be interviewing Kate Anthony live at 11.20 BST on Saturday 30th May about online therapy - listen live online at http://www.4fm.ie/listen_live.asp !

Kate and DeeAnna

Thu, May 28 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) - potential for online services!

CALM, the charity created in response to the high suicide rate amongst young men, has entered a new era with the arrival of a Service Manager and two new Fundraisers.
The charity has unveiled plans to launch an innovative new text and online messaging service, expansion of their regional network of CALMzones, as well as new partnerships with the sports and the music industries.
CALM’s director, Jane Powell, said:
“This is a massive step forwards for us.  The charity will gain even more impact fighting what is one of the biggest killers of young men in England and Wales.”  
CALM’s new Service Manager is Dr Stephen Goss, who brings 25 years experience in the provision of support at a distance – via telephones, email, chat, texting and other technologies - from his work at the University of Abertay Dundee, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Online Therapy Institute. 
CALM’s new Service Manager, Dr Stephen Goss, said:
“There is massive potential in using new technologies to reach out to people who might not otherwise contact support services in their time of need. Young men are too often taught to be silent in order to appear strong, but the truth is it takes even more strength to get to grips with problems and ask for help.” 
The charity has appointed Kim Thornton and Grainne Buckley as Fundraisers to develop the charity’s ties with sports, in particular working with 5 a side leagues, as well as partnerships with the music industry, which has a long history of working with CALM via club nights and link ups with top artists like Sasha and Dizzee Rascal. 

Working in partnership with some of the biggest names in music, sport and clubbing, CALM encourages young men to ‘open up’ and sort out their problems. CALM has built a strong presence through the internet, club flyers, posters, beer mats, gigs, comedy nights and in the media.

The Campaign Against Living Miserably is targeted at young men aged between 
15-35. The campaign offers help, information and advice via a help line and 
website. Anyone, regardless of age, gender or geographic location can call the 
line. 
The new posts have been made possible with the generous help of the Mark McQueen Foundation and the James Wentworth-Stanley Memorial Trust. 

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Mon, May 25 2009 » CALM, Mobile SMS, Online Therapy, Social Media » No Comments

BACP Guidelines now available online!

I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that the online version for the new edition of the Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy (inc. Guidelines for Online Supervision) 3rd Edition is now available via the BACP website. 
 
It is available for members via the members area of the website. Once logged in, members can click on ‘Online Counselling Guidelines’ and they can view the whole document for free. 
 
Non-members need to pay £3.50 to access this and can do this via the online bookshop (www.bacp.co.uk/shop). Once they’ve paid they need to go to http://www.bacp.co.uk/members/online/ and log in with the email address and password they entered at time of payment. Non-members will have to wait until the payment has been processed until they can access it, so are advised to wait 24 hours from making payment before trying to log in. These instructions for access are also explained on the shop.
 
Enjoy!
 
Kate

Wed, May 20 2009 » Guidelines for online work, Online Supervision, Online Therapy, Training and Education » No Comments

Are you a Helping Professional? Do you Have a Website?

It is official. I build websites.  If you are a regular reader to this blog you know that I am a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer and much of my work is about online therapy.  I see clients in my office and online, I offer consultation to therapists who are considering adding online therapy to their suite of services, I train and conduct keynotes, and in my spare time I write! 

But over the past year or so I have also assisted people with website builds.  I started out helping therapists build sites that integrated online therapy services, but lately I have been approached by others who just want a simple site to describe what they do.   And guess what?  I love the builds!  It is a creative outlet for me!  I am not a webmaster so I do not offer flash and other fancy plugins, but I can build a sturdy site for people who do not know how, don’t want to learn or just don’t want to take the time.  Once I complete the build, I can show someone how to maintain the site themselves, or I can make changes as needed.

So, if you are shopping around, check me out.  This site describes my web build services in more detail: www.therapyonlinewebsitedesign.com

Here are a few sites I have built:

www.deeannamerznagel.com
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Hoping all of you are enjoying these days of spring as we move into summer!

DeeAnna

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Sun, May 17 2009 » Resources and other items of interest » No Comments

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