Archive for June, 2009

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

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

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

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 13^th Street)

between 3^rd and 4^th Avenues  2^nd Floor

New York, NY 10003 

4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W subways to 14^th 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

“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

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