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Ethical Implications Online: Working in Cyberspace Oct. 20, 2009 Dallas, TX 7.5 CE $155.00
The Employee Assistance Professionals Association invites you to participate in this
Pre-Conference Training Course
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
For additional information, contact Jan Price at 703-387-1000 x340 or plrmgr@eapassn.org
Ethical Implications Online: Working in Cyberspace
DeeAnna Merz Nagel, LPC, DCC
Co-Founder Online Therapy Institute
What is online therapy? How can this be done ethically?
What could online therapy mean for my practice?
This full-day training course will discuss best practice with regard to counseling and 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 must now 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.
Date/Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Location: Hyatt Regency, 300 Reunion Boulevard, Cumberland G & H, Dallas, TX 75207
Registration Fee: $155.00 with this registration form through September 30, 2009.
Registration information: Please complete this REGISTRATION FORM
Ethical Implications Online Registration Flyer[1].pdf
Fax: 703-522-4585, or
Mail:
Employee Assistance Professionals Association
4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 410
Arlington, VA 22203
Program Highlights and Additional Information
• Proper Client Screening and Intake
• Informed Consent
• How to set up encrypted services for client communication via email, chat, video and VOIP
• Responding to client emergencies
• Skills Necessary for the Online Therapist
• Maintaining boundaries on social networking
• Therapeutic and Non-Therapeutic Uses of Web. 2.0
• Using the Internet as a Marketing Tool in an Ethical Manner
• Summary of existing guidelines and codes of ethics as related to the use of technology
• Summary of the Online Therapy Institute’s Ethical Framework for the Use of Technology in
Mental Health
• Review of current resources (publications, organizations and websites)
Objectives:
1. Participants will learn operating definitions of terms such as Online Therapy, Web 2.0, Social
Networking, Social Media and Mixed Reality (such as Second Life)
2. Participants will understand how to maintain client confidentiality online.
3. Participants will understand how to avoid dual relationships online.
Presenter Biography:
DeeAnna Merz Nagel, LPC, DCC is a psychotherapist, consultant and international expert regarding
online counseling and the impact of technology on mental health. She specializes in textbased
counseling and supervision via chat and email. DeeAnna’s expertise extends to assisting
individuals and families in understanding the impact of technology in their lives from normalizing the
use of technology and social media to overcoming internet and cybersex addictions. Her
presentations and publications include ethical considerations for the mental health practitioner with
regard to online counseling, social networking, mixed reality and virtual world environments.
DeeAnna is a former President of the International Society for Mental Health Online and co-founder
of the Online Therapy Institute. She maintains a face-to-face private practice in Atlantic Highlands, NJ.
PDH/CE Information:
7.5 PDH/contact hours authorized by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission, National
Association of Social Work, National Board for Certified Counselors and the National Association for
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
Pre-Conference Training Course
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
For additional information, contact Jan Price at 703-387-1000 x340 or plrmgr@eapassn.org
Ethical Implications Online: Working in Cyberspace
DeeAnna Merz Nagel, LPC, DCC
Co-Founder Online Therapy Institute
What is online therapy? How can this be done ethically?
What could online therapy mean for my practice?
This full-day training course will discuss best practice with regard to counseling and 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 must now 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.
Date/Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Location: Hyatt Regency, 300 Reunion Boulevard, Cumberland G & H, Dallas, TX 75207
Registration Fee: $155.00 with this registration form through September 30, 2009.
Registration information: Please complete this REGISTRATION FORM
Ethical Implications Online Registration Flyer[1].pdf
Fax: 703-522-4585, or
Mail:
Employee Assistance Professionals Association
4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 410
Arlington, VA 22203
Program Highlights and Additional Information
• Proper Client Screening and Intake
• Informed Consent
• How to set up encrypted services for client communication via email, chat, video and VOIP
• Responding to client emergencies
• Skills Necessary for the Online Therapist
• Maintaining boundaries on social networking
• Therapeutic and Non-Therapeutic Uses of Web. 2.0
• Using the Internet as a Marketing Tool in an Ethical Manner
• Summary of existing guidelines and codes of ethics as related to the use of technology
• Summary of the Online Therapy Institute’s Ethical Framework for the Use of Technology in
Mental Health
• Review of current resources (publications, organizations and websites)
Objectives:
1. Participants will learn operating definitions of terms such as Online Therapy, Web 2.0, Social
Networking, Social Media and Mixed Reality (such as Second Life)
2. Participants will understand how to maintain client confidentiality online.
3. Participants will understand how to avoid dual relationships online.
Presenter Biography:
DeeAnna Merz Nagel, LPC, DCC is a psychotherapist, consultant and international expert regarding
online counseling and the impact of technology on mental health. She specializes in textbased
counseling and supervision via chat and email. DeeAnna’s expertise extends to assisting
individuals and families in understanding the impact of technology in their lives from normalizing the
use of technology and social media to overcoming internet and cybersex addictions. Her
presentations and publications include ethical considerations for the mental health practitioner with
regard to online counseling, social networking, mixed reality and virtual world environments.
DeeAnna is a former President of the International Society for Mental Health Online and co-founder
of the Online Therapy Institute. She maintains a face-to-face private practice in Atlantic Highlands, NJ.
PDH/CE Information:
7.5 PDH/contact hours authorized by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission, National
Association of Social Work, National Board for Certified Counselors and the National Association for
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
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Comment by DeeAnna Merz Nagel on October 13, 2009 at 6:10am -
Sandy,
the Online Therapy Institute will be offering a series of online trainings that will be APA approved. Stay tuned! http://www.onlinetherapyinstitute.com/id55.html
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Comment by Sandy Bowers on October 13, 2009 at 12:52am - I am very excited to see this course is being offered, but fear it is too short of notice for me to make it. Will it be offered again? Also, does the American Psychological Association award continuing education credits for any of your seminars? thank you, Sandy
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