PRESENTER:

John C. Simoneaux, Ph.D.

OBJECTIVES:

• Explain what distance therapy is, how it is practiced, and how widely it is being utilized.
• Analyze extant outcome literature on the effectiveness of distance therapy delivery.
• Critique controversies surrounding the practice of distance therapy.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of distance therapy services.
• Compare and assess effective distance therapy practices and those that are less effective.

AGENDA:

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.    – Login

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

• Distance therapy – what it is, and what it is not
• Who, What, When, Where of distance therapy
• Brief analysis of ethics relating to distance therapy
• Distance therapy and evidence for effectiveness
• Outcome literature – overlap with literature secondary to COVID
• Harmful outcomes, potential and real, of distance therapy

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Break

10:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

• Distance therapy controversies – is there generational resistance
• What is lost, and what is gained in doing distance therapy
• Distance therapy – do ends justify means?
• The evolution of distance therapies
• Distance therapies – what works, what seems not to work
• Legal liabilities and distance therapies
• Distance therapies – are they here to stay?

12:45 p.m. Adjournment

CE APPROVALS (4 CE’s):

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