Archive for September, 2009

Ethical Implications Online: Working and Socializing in Cyberspace

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Presented by: DeeAnna Nagel, LPC, DCC
Dallas, Texas EAPA Pre-Conference Training
Co-Founder of the Online Therapy Institute

The Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) invites you to
Register For This Full-Day Ethics Course
Ethical Implications Online: Working and Socializing in Cyberspace
Tuesday, October 20 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM; 7.5 PDH/CE contact hours

This full-day workshop will discuss best practice with regard to communicating online with potential and existing clients, business associates, friends and other therapists. With the advent of Web 2.0 and Social Media, counselors and psychotherapists now must understand the boundaries of working and socializing in cyberspace. Topics to be covered include communicating confidentially with existing clients, how to handle the email inquiry from a potential client, the basics of ethical online counseling and the slippery slope of marketing your practice on the internet via social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Learn more about EAPA’s 2009 Annual World EAP conference or download the conference preview book.
PDH/CE credit hours provided by:
Employee Assistance Certification Commission (EACC)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)

Ethical Implications Online: Working and Socializing in Cyberspace
Presented by: DeeAnna Nagel, LPC, DCC
Dallas, Texas EAPA Pre-Conference Training
Co-Founder of the Online Therapy Institute

The Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) invites you to
Register For This Full-Day Ethics Course
Ethical Implications Online: Working and Socializing in Cyberspace
Tuesday, October 20 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM; 7.5 PDH/CE contact hours

This full-day workshop will discuss best practice with regard to communicating online with potential and existing clients, business associates, friends and other therapists. With the advent of Web 2.0 and Social Media, counselors and psychotherapists now must understand the boundaries of working and socializing in cyberspace. Topics to be covered include communicating confidentially with existing clients, how to handle the email inquiry from a potential client, the basics of ethical online counseling and the slippery slope of marketing your practice on the internet via social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Wednesday, October 21 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM; 7.5 PDH/CE contact hours

Presented by: Shelley Plemons MS, LCDC
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The economy is poor and the behavioral health marketplace is increasingly competitive. As a mental health professional, you may be faced with the challenge of maintaining your current work-load while becoming more involved in sales efforts. You want to increase your client base and land business, but sales is not your first profession, and feels daunting. What do you do?

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Learn more about EAPA’s 2009 Annual World EAP conference or download the conference preview book.
PDH/CE credit hours provided by:
Employee Assistance Certification Commission (EACC)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)

This is to announce a conference that will be held in Second Life Sep 16-18 and starts today at 12pm EST!

This conference is free and offers CE through NBCC.

The conference is coordinated by Dr. Marty Jencius, Assistant Professor and Counselor Educator at Kent State as well as founder and list manager for CESNET-L, a professional listserv for counselor educators and co-founding editor of The Journal of Technology in Counseling, a web-based, peer reviewed journal.

Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Merz Nagel will be co-presenting a Keynote entitled: Online Therapy in Second Life and the Online Therapy Institute.

Other colleagues are joining us with great content.

General Information:

http://sl.counseloreducation.org/Conference/conference.html

Conference Schedule:

http://sl.counseloreducation.org/vccschedule/vccschedule.html

Registration:

http://sl.counseloreducation.org/Registration/registration.php

If you do not have the Second Life platform downloaded but still want to view the conference, you may register and view the conference via John Wilson’s Online Events website. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/433929896/fbnews

Real-time conference updates and information can be read and sent through Twitter  http://twitter.com/ceinsl   hashtag #ceinsl

PDF of Progam: cesl-conference-program

Hope to see you inworld!

Here in the UK, I read The Guardian on a daily basis, and Thursday is my favourite day because it has the Technology section.  Victor Keegan asks today whether the virtual boom is the current industrial revolution with regard to virtual gifts – such as roses, birthday cakes, and teddy bears sent via FaceBook and other social networks.  These “are often paid for with “virtual” currencies”, so one can exchange them for $$ or ££, etc.

 

What caught my eye about this article is that he points out that society is being carried away by the word “virtual”, so for instance a block of chocolate, which disappears into your mouth, becomes virtual.  More to the point, many of the things we think of as “real” – such as money or the value of a brand (Keegan cites Nike) – are in themselves virtual…. but we are used to them and so consider them real.

 

The full article is available here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/09/victor-keegan-virtual-world-revolution

 

So – what has this to do with online therapy?

 

If a face-to-face session is thought of as being transient – that is, it existed in real time but no longer does apart from the memory and the learning from it (like the chocolate – I ate it and I enjoyed it and am therefore likely to do it again therefore adding to my life experience, but it is past), does that make it less virtual than online therapy sessions (where the record of the session is logged, printed, carried, re-read).  Is the reason for the suspicion of online therapy simply that we are not used to thinking of it as real, because our professional history shows that we believe face-to-face therapy as being “real”.  The face-to-face session is past and is only in our memory – the online session gives us tangible evidence of it.  It doesn’t make the fleeting face-to-face session less real… but it means the online session exists at any point we – or more to the point, the client  - want to re-experience it. 

 

So – does that mean the online therapy session is technically less virtual than face-to-face therapy?

 

Kate

This is to announce a conference that will be held in Second Life Sep 16-18.

This conference is free and offers CE through NBCC.

The conference is coordinated by Dr. Marty Jencius, Assistant Professor and Counselor Educator at Kent State as well as founder and list manager for CESNET-L, a professional listserv for counselor educators and co-founding editor of The Journal of Technology in Counseling, a web-based, peer reviewed journal.

Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Merz Nagel will be co-presenting a Keynote entitled: Online Therapy in Second Life and the Online Therapy Institute.

General Information:

http://sl.counseloreducation.org/Conference/conference.html

Conference Schedule:

http://sl.counseloreducation.org/vccschedule/vccschedule.html

Registration:

http://sl.counseloreducation.org/Registration/registration.php

Hope to see you inworld!

DeeAnna