Archive for April, 2010
New Book about Marketing for Mental Health Professionals (and a special offer from OTI!)
Our colleague, David P. Diana has authored a new book just out! Marketing for the Mental Health Professional: An Innovative Guide for Practitioners is a book about success within all areas of the profession, offering practical and powerful strategies that lead to growth and opportunity you may never have imagined possible. 
Diana has teamed up with Online Therapy Institute and several others to offer unique resources and discounts for people who purchase his book. OTI is offering a 50% discount on our Get Verified program.
For more information on the book and corresponding offers, check out Diana’s recent blog post announcing the book launch and partners!
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Introduction to Cyberspace~ Online Course Approved for HR Professionals
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.
Online Therapy Institute mentioned in the Employee Assistance Report
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Marina London recently wrote an article for the Employee Assistance Report and kindly mentioned Online Therapy Institute’s Ethical Framework for the use of Technology in Mental Health. Marina, we do appreciate the mention! The pdf download is avalable to read:
Ethical & Legal Considerations of Online Counseling are Ongoing
Read more about the Employee Assitance Report publication here: http://www.impact-publications.com/category/general_info_earn
For more from Marina London, follow her on twitter @IWebU and read her blog at http://www.iwebu.blogspot.com/
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Using Technology to Deliver Career and School Guidance Services
A new article was just published in the Student Assistance Journal! The article is entitled Using Technology to Deliver Career and School Guidance Services: Establishing a Global and Inclusive Ethical Framework and is co-authored by Harvey Schmelter-Davis, Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Merz Nagel. The article features a full reprint of the Online Therapy Institute’s Ethical Framework for the Use of Technology in Career and School Guidance. As the abstract states, the article features a framework that strives “to offer a best standard of practice that all career and school guidance practitioners can easily adhere to regardless of particular professional identity, region and/or organization affiliation.”
PDF download:
Using Technology to Deliver Career and School Guidance Services
Schmelter-Davis, H., Anthony, K. & Nagel, D. (2009). Using technology to deliver career and school guidance services: establishing a global and inclusive ethical framework. Student Assistance Journal. 21(3), 26-34.
The Student Assistance Journal Magazine is published by PRP Media, Inc.
Get Verified by Online Therapy Institute!
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
You must have Adobe Reader to Download the following files
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.