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Thursday, September 9th!

Join Kate Anthony, DeeAnna Merz Nagel and John Wilson as they host a VIRTUAL TOWN HALL MEETING ABOUT THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH AND ALL THAT IS ONLINE THERAPY!

We will discuss efforts of three of the leading organizations representing online mental health and we will offer information about upcoming conferences, continuing education opportunities and publications. This is a great opportunity for a brief introduction followed by a Q&A session.

You can join us in Second Life at the Online Therapy Institute Conference Centre, alternatively you can view this event from the OnlinEvents website and you will be able to communicate with us using the chat room on our Live Video page.

There is no charge for this event!

Check out the time of the event in your time zone:

San Francisco: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
New York: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
London: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sydney: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM

For more information visit www.onlinevents.co.uk

Kate and DeeAnna are presenting at 2VCC in Second Life! We will be facilitating a Q&A with  Jason Spingarn-Koff, director of the movie, Life 2.0. Our topic, Demonstrating Cyberculture through Film: Life 2.0 discusses how Jason’s documentary about Second Life can increase cultural competency among counselors, psychologists and other helping professionals. See full conference information and schedule below! Be sure to catch our session on Wednesday 9/15/2010 @ 3pm EST.

2nd Virtual Conference on Counseling (2VCC)
September 15-18, 2010

http://sl.counseloreducation.org

The 2VCC will cover 4 days with over 40 presentations on issues related to counseling, counselor education, supervision and the use of technology (particularly Second Life) in counseling practice and training.

The conference is FREE and available to interested professionals. Reregistering for the conference on this website will assure that you will get information notecards and a program booklet emailed to you for this conference.

You can attend the conference in Second Life starting at the Counselor Education in Second Life center SLURL Marina Del Rey 102, 70, 27. The schedule of presentations will be available through this website.

You can also watch a live stream of the conference provided by http://www.onlinevents.co.uk The live stream is a great opportunity to show portions of the conference to your whole class without the burden of having to manipulate your avatar into Second Life.

2nd Virtual Conference on Counseling (2VCC)
All times are Eastern Time Zone (GMT -5)
Sessions will occur at CESL in Second Life (SLURL Marina Del Rey 102, 70, 27)
Portions of 2VCC will be web-streamed through Onlinevents.co.uk at http://onlinevents.co.uk
Attendance is free – Continuing education contact hours are free and available

9/15/2010 Wednesday

10:00 AM
1. Opening Session: Marty Jencius and Debra London

11:00 AM
2. Keynote session: Sexualized Role Play in Second Life and Beyond: Meaning and Implications. David Delmonico

12:00 PM
3. Technologically Mediated Relationship Changes, Katherine Herman and Courtney Holmes

1:00 PM
4. Counseling in GenderLand: A guide for you and your transgendered clients, Niela Miller

2:00 PM
5. Immersive Simulations in Counselor Education, David Stone and Deborha Patten

3:00 PM
6. Demonstrating Cyberculture through Film: Life 2.0 Questions and Answers, DeeAnna Merz Nagel, Kate Anthony and Jason Spingarn-Koff

4:00 PM
7. Second Life as a Pedagogical Tool: Comparing the Learning Styles and Perceptions of Counselor Education Students of Second Life, Leslie O’Ryan and Jacob Glazier

5:00 PM
8. Evaluating Student Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Learning During Patient Interviewing and Diagnosis Activities, Victoria Walker and Jason Baker

6:00 PM
9. Counseling Internet and Online Issues, Paul Silverman

7:00 PM
10. The Effectiveness of Art Therapy, Nicole Brickell

8:00 PM
11. Project Pathways: Interactive Technology in the Counseling Classroom, Joseph Davis

9:00 PM
12. Training Play Therapists in a Virtual World, Julie Robinson, Jill Packman, Maria Devine Ogino

10:00 PM
Mixer / Entertainment

9/16/2010 Thursday

11:00 AM
13. Competencies in Addressing the Christian Client’s Worldview, Cheryl Durham

12:00 PM
14. Can I trust you? Can you really help me?, Brandon Browning

1:00 PM
15. CACREP Goes International with IRCEP: The International Registry of Counselor Education Programs, Carol Bobby and Rebecca Stanard

2:00 PM
16. Using Arts Processes as Psychological Tools in Second Life, Niela Miller (Note 90 minute presentation held at Niela’s SL Location)

3:00 PM
17. Developing and Implementing Online Supervision in Counselor Education: Strategies to get Started, Jonathan Lent and Paula Britton

4:00 PM
18. Teaching, Learning and Living in SL: A year in the Life of a Newbie, Chadwick Royal

5:00 PM
19. Age Cohorts: Preparing a Young Counseling Workforce for an Aging Generation, Nicki Nance

6:00 PM
20. Power and Control: When Counselors Abuse, Paul Fornell

7:00 PM
21. The Top 5 Mistakes Therapists Make in Building a Successful Therapy Practice, Laura Dessauer

8:00 PM
22. Factors Related to Severity and Prognosis in Mood Disorders, Todd Finnerty

9:00 PM
23. Counseling Stand UP Comedy Tour: Ludwig Wiigenstein and the Telling of Second-Order Truth Through Humor, Brian Mistler

10:00 PM
Mixer / Entertainment

9/17/2010 Friday

10:00 AM
24. Directives in Art Therapy, Nicole Brickell

11:00 AM
25. The Fourth Dimension: 4-D Communications with Adolescents, William Scott

12:00 PM
26. Collaborative Approach to High School to College Transition Programs, Annette Albrecht and Dennis Jones

1:00 PM
27. Facilitating Second Lives in Real Life, Tom Blume, Joel Lane, and Keolegobile Semphadie

2:00 PM
28. Service Learning with Online Graduate Students. Kylie Dotson-Blake

3:00 PM
29. Counselors-in-training Implement the ASCA National Model, Aaron Oberman

4:00 PM
30. Suicide Assessment using SIMPLE STEPS, Jason McGlothlin

5:00 PM
31. Teaching Supervision to Counselors using the Discrimination Model, Clarrice Rapisarda, Kimberly Desmond, and Jill Nelson

6:00 PM
32. Public Relations and School Counseling: Learning to Promote the Counseling Program, Kimberly Desmond, Clarrice Rapisarda, and Jill Nelson

7:00 PM
33. My Client’s Don’t Know I am LGBT Friendly: Helping School and Mental health Counselors Meet the needs of LGBT Youth, Rachel Vitale, Harry Warner, Julie Krause, and Amanda Cole

8:00 PM
34. Eating Disorder Recovery in a “War on Obesity” World, Shannon Cutts

9:00 PM
Mixer / Entertainment

9/18/2010 Saturday

10:00 AM
35. Q Methodology as a Tool for Agenda Setting. Klara Overland

11:00 AM
36. Digital Story Telling in a Multicultural Counseling Course, Diana VanWinkle, Marty Jencius

12:00 PM
37. Innovation, Avatars, and Virtual Counseling, Dick Dillon

1:00 PM
38. Publishing Your Book in Counselor Education, John Blando

39. Discovering Callings and Contributing to Community: Where Spirituality and career Development Converge, Edward Colozzi

2:00 PM
40. Artificial Neural Networks: An Introduction to Their uses in Statistical Modeling and Comparison of Predictive Power versus Multiple Regressions, Brian Mistler

3:00 PM
41. Counselor TV: Creating and Running a Streaming Television Channel, Michael Baltimore

4:00 PM
42. Closing Session

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We are working hard on putting together our new OTI magazine, TILT (Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology).

The magazine will be online and free, and launched in September 2010. It will be a blend of news, innovations, member profiles, articles, features, marketing toolboxes, news on textbooks, and advertisements of interest. We will have more news on this very soon as the first issue comes together.

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Each issue will include the following:

· Editors introduction and contents (Kate Anthony & DeeAnna Merz Nagel)
· News from the cyberstreet (tweets members, what is at OTI blog, new research news)
· New Breakthroughs column
· Online Therapist column (A Day In The Life)
· Online Supervisor column
· Ethical Dilemmas column
· Feature article 4000-6000 words
· Other article(s) – about 1500 words
· Marketing toolbox column
· Featured Verified website
· Letters/reader comments
· Book descriptions of 3 books per issue
· Advertising and conferences

If you have an article of up to 1500 words that you are burning to get out of your system on any topic related to innovative delivery of therapeutic services via technology (including coaching), please do submit it no earlier than August 1st and no later than August 20th to editor@onlinetherapymagazine.com

We’re very excited at this new development at the Online Therapy Institute and will let you know even more about the content soon!

We look forward to reading your article!

If you have other inquiries about the magazine including advertising options please email info@onlinetherapyinstitute.com

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Kate will be presenting at a conference in Brussels that begins on June 17th and DeeAnna will present at a conference in Pennsylvania that begins June 28th.  Details of both conferences and sessions about online therapy follow:

Employee Assistance European Forum Brussels Conference 2010  See the link for the full agenda.

Best Practices for Providing EA Services via Email Exchange

Ms. Kate Anthony, Founder “The Online Therapy Institute”, President of the International Society for Mental Health Online, U.K.

 2010 EAP-MAP Conference Villanova Conference Center, PA See the link for the full agenda.

Panel Discussion – “Let your Fingers do the Talking: Adding Online Counseling to your Therapeutic Repertoire”
Jane Weiler, LCSW – Program Coordinator, NY Presbyterian Hospital Workplace Services
Mary Ellen Gornick, MA – Senior Vice President – Global Products, Workplace Options
DeeAnna Nagel, MEd, LPC, DCC – Co-Founder, The Online Therapy Institute
Cedric Speyer, MA, MAEd – Clinical Supervisor of E-Counseling, Shepell

We hope to see you there!

 

The Online Therapy Institute is proud to display the HRCI seal for re-certification credit.

What is HR Certification Institute?

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The HR Certification Institute is the credentialing affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM),  the world’s largest association devoted to professional human resource management. HR Certification Institute works to define and maintain the HR body of knowledge, and offers assessments and certification of this knowledge. Human Resource certification demonstrates mastery of the HR body of knowledge and is widely accepted as a symbol of professional achievement.

Introduction to Cyberspace: A Primer for the Helping Professions

Kate Anthony & DeeAnna Merz Nagel

5 clock hours of instruction.
Online and self-paced.
$69.99/£45.00

During this course, you will learn about “what is out there”, from tweeting to blogs to chatrooms to gaming to Virtual Reality environments. This course covers definitions and illustrations of the aspects of Cyberspace that you need to know about, for offering therapy services in these platforms and understanding your clients’ experience of them. The course offers examples and illustrations of the platform being talked about, and shows you how to take part in them. We will also offer a basic understanding of Internet safety. This is so that you keep your communications and behaviors safe on the Internet but also so that you have a better understanding of what your clients may experience online if they do not practice Internet safety.

• Basic Internet Functions for Therapy and Counseling

• Enhanced Internet Functions for Therapy and Counseling

• Further Enhanced Internet Functions for Therapy and Counseling

• Visual and Aural Internet Functions for Therapy and Counseling

• Web 2.0 and Implications for Therapy and Counseling

Participants will be able to browse the internet accessing email and chat applications that may enhance client and/or student relationships.

Participants will be able to browse the net accessing podcast, wiki and virtual world applications that may enhance client and/or student relationships.

Participants will be able to browse the net and apply the use of blogs, microblogs and other social networking applications to their mental health practice or counselor education setting.

Participants will be able to practice basic internet safety and understand how to educate clients and/or students about internet safety.

We have partnered with DigitalChalk to provide a user-friendly yet state-of-the art training experience.

To purchase this course, create a profile at the OTI Training Portal and visit the catalog page.

Add the course to your shopping cart and pay with a credit card.

Continuing Education for U.S. psychologists, social workers and counselors, addiction counselors and marriage and family therapists is available for an additional $25.00. Click here for details.

Are you a Human Resources Professional?

This program has been approved for 5.0 (General ) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute. Please be sure to note the program ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.

This course will give the HR professional knowledge about how to maneuver cyberspace from the perspective of wellness. Understanding where employees are spending time online is valuable and understanding the possibility that employees are spending time online engaged in gambling, cybersex, social networking or other activities that take away from work productivity is essential. Knowledge about cyberspace will aid in interventions with employees who may need additional assistance, In addition, HR professionals often make decisions about and collaborate with EAP programs for health and wellness benefits. More and more EAPs are now offering EAP services via technology, Understanding what technology platforms are available for practitioners to utilize with employee/clients is essential when determining which EAP programs would best suit the employer.

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

If you are interested in a group training rate please email info@onlinetherapyinstitute.com.

Get Verified!

Do you have a website that offers information, services or products related to mental health?

Online Therapy Institute verifies websites so that individuals and businesses can demonstrate to their audience that their website is in compliance with what OTI considers to be “best practice” and in accordance with OTI’s Ethical Frameworks.

Getting OTI Verified means whether you offer website development and marketing services, you are an individual practitioner in private practice or you own an e-clinic or you represent a charity or educational organization you can indicate to the public that you understand the ethical implications of delivering mental health information and services online.

Website Categories

• Client Services (therapy, counselling. counseling, coaching)
• Therapist/Coach Directory
• Social Network
• Blog
• Peer Support
• Self Help
• Practice Building/Marketing
• Supervision/Consultation
• Education/Professional Development
• Crisis Intervention

You may have a website that fits into more than one category. Or you may have two websites under the same business name. For instance, some people have a private practice website and a separate blog site. We will offer an OTI Verified Seal that you can use on all of your sites. By implementing the items on our checklist that apply to your website categories, you can Get Verified .

• Your seal will be a choice of two styles.
• Each seal carries your company name and the current date.
• The seal cannot be replicated onto another site.
• The cost is $99.99 for the first year and $49.99 renewal each year following.

Instructions

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OTI Get Verified Checklist ….. OTI Get Verified Notes

• Compare your website to our checklist to be sure your website is ready for verification.
• Read through the notes that offer clarification for items on the checklist.
• Once you are sure you meet the criteria, click Google Buy Now button below.
• Following the completion of the payment process, you will be directed to the application.
• You will be contacted within 10 business days with your OTI Verified Seal.
• Should your website not meet the OTI Verified criteria, we will make recommendations.

Get Verified!

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The Online Counselling and Therapy in Action (OCTIA – see www.octia.org.uk) conference (now in its second year), took place in Manchester, England  and online this March 2010  through chat rooms, live video and my own presentation taking place in Second Life with its own chat.

The photograph below shows me presenting to the room of delegates at the OCTIA conference venue, with my own laptop in front of me.  Behind me on the screen is the view from my laptop perspective into Second Life, where I was joined by colleagues from all over the world represented as avatars, who had their own chat facility with me via my laptop and the delegates in the room who were also in Second Life as avatars (hence the laptops in the audience).  The screen on the wall to my right is where I was shown live from the perspective of one of the other delegates in the room in Second Life, with the official OCTIA chatroom being scrolled to the right of the video, where I was also taking part via audio and my laptop via text.

If that description sounds confusing, the point is that I was present in five different realities simultaneously, presenting worldwide.  This groundbreaking event reached four continents – Europe, the USA/Canada, South America and Australia – bringing them together to discuss the use of virtual and mixed realities in counselling and psychotherapy experientially.  To ensure the delegates watching in the physical room and online were truly able to understand what working in mixed realities is like, I wore the same clothes that my avatar is based upon, clearer in the photograph below (with my virtual self centre-front of the screen (from my perspective, hence the back view)).

You can also view a video by John Wilson of OnlinEvents and pics of the event. Jokay, founder of Jokaydia where our OTI office and conference center is located,  took some great pics while inworld. We are ever so grateful for her design expertise and professional support.

The Islands of jokaydia is a virtual worlds community of practice facilitated by Jo Kay aka jokay Wollongong. We are exploring the use of virtual worlds and games for education, arts and social change. You can find us in Second Life, Reaction Grid and our new virtual worlds presence – the jokaydia Grid!

We hope you will visit us inworld! If you’d like to check out Online Therapy Square, and the OTI Headquarters visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/110/68/24.

Please join Kate Anthony and colleagues for an hour in Second Life!

Kate is presenting at the Online Counselling and Therapy in Action (OCTIA) conference on the 20^th March 2010 at 4.10pm (GMT).  Kate will conduct a live tour of professional, therapeutic and educational environments in Second Life, and discuss some of the benefits and pitfalls

of conducting therapy in virtual environments.  Environments will include the offices of the Online Therapy Institute (offices, conference centre, breakout rooms and skybox for therapeutic sessions – www.onlinetherapyinstitute.com) and OnlineEvents.com 9the technical arm of OCTIA).

The location is http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/147/45/24

Participation in this workshop is free.  Tickets for the main conference (online and offline) are available from http://www.octia.org.uk/OCTIA/Home.html

Hi Everyone!

I invite you to join me and over 10 other expert speakers for a complementary Therapist Resource Telesummit. Over three days, you will have access to some incredible information on how to create an authentic and profitable therapy business, helping many more clients. I will be discussing online therapy and I am thrilled to be joining such a dynamic group of speakers!

See details here:
Therapists Resource FREE Telesummit March 12 – 14

You’ll discover:

* How to stop giving your money away to insurance companies and the biggest mistakes therapists make in building a successful fee-for-service therapy business

* How to help your potential clients TALK THEMSELVES into working with you and what you’ll need to know to attract way more clients without compromising your values

* The mindset shift and business model change you need to learn so you can easily double your current income

* How to use coaching to build a fee-for-service practice making six to seven figures a year

* The reason why you may be procrastinating in your business and the biggest gift you can offer your clients

* The marketing approach that helps your community, while growing your practice at the same time

* How to expand your practice using text-based therapy: what you need to know about using email and chat with your clients- everything from encryption, client screening, and cyber-cultural awareness

* How to create a signature presentation that leaves your potential clients asking for more

* Practical tools you can use to earn expert status and how to utilize technology and marketing strategies to engage clients, build credibility, and earn loyalty

* Specific ways social media improves your visibility online and how to use directories and google local business center to gain exposure and attract new clients

* How online networking sites and technology can bring therapists, students, and interested professional together in a global web community, maximizing your practice exposure

And so much more!

Join me!

March 12th, 13th and 14th, 2010
Register and see details here:
Therapists Resource FREE Telesummit March 12 – 14

Wishing everyone the best!

DeeAnna

Exciting development from the OCTIA organising team. On the Friday night of the conference (19th March) there will be a “meet the authors” session before dinner.

I will be there to discuss “Therapy Online [a practical guide] (Anthony and Nagel, 2010), and Dr. Stephen Goss will talk about the forthcoming title “The Use of Technology in Mental Health: Applications, Ethics and Practice” (Anthony, Nagel & Goss, 2010). We will also refer back to the original UK text on the topic “Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide” (Goss & Anthony, 2003).

Anne Stokes and Gill Jones will consider their 2009 book “Online Counselling”, and Jane Evans will discuss “Online Counselling and Guidance Skills: A Practical Resource for Trainees and Practitioners” (2009).

Also great to welcome Jethro Adlington to talk about “Online Therapy – Reading Between The Lines – A practical NLP based guide to online counselling and therapy skills” (2009).

All these books and more are available from the OTI bookstore at http://www.onlinetherapyinstitute.com/bookstore/

Looking forward to it!

Kate