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Author: David D. Luxton ,
Eve-Lynn Nelson ,
Marlene Maheu
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Imprint: American Psychological Association
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.241kg
ISBN: 9781433822278
ISBN 10: 143382227
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9781433842764
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"“In 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically—it is a rich ‘how to’ resource that should not be missed.” —New England Psychologist In 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically — it is a rich ""how to"" resource that should not be missed. * New England Psychologist * This thought-provoking work causes the reader to explore the intricacies of telemental health, while, simultaneously, allaying the reader's anxieties with the detailed ""how-to"" steps for implementation of a telepractice. * PsycCRITIQUES *"
In 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically--it is a rich 'how to' resource that should not be missed. --New England Psychologist
"In 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically -- it is a rich ""how to"" resource that should not be missed. -- ""New England Psychologist"" This thought-provoking work causes the reader to explore the intricacies of telemental health, while, simultaneously, allaying the reader's anxieties with the detailed ""how-to"" steps for implementation of a telepractice. -- ""PsycCRITIQUES"" ""In 2017, it is essential that mental health professionals learn about technology advances for serving the broadest population of patients and consumers. Reading this book will fulfill that mandate emphatically--it is a rich 'how to' resource that should not be missed."" --New England Psychologist"
Author Information
David D. Luxton, PhD, is CEO and founder of Luxton Labs LLC, a behavioral health technologies search and development company, chief science officer at NowMattersNow.org, and affiliate associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. He previously served as a research health scientist at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California, and as a research psychologist and program manager at the U.S. Army's National Center for Telehealth & Technology. Dr. Luxton's research and writing is focused in the areas of military and veterans' health, suicide prevention, telehealth, clinical best practices and ethics when using technology, and the study and development of emergent technologies in health care. He has served on numerous national workgroups and committees and is a highly sought after subject matter expert and consultant. Dr. Luxton is a licensed clinical psychologist and U.S. Air Force veteran. Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD, is a professor of pediatrics and telemedicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), where she directs the KU Center for Telemedicine and Telehealth. She also serves as the research liaison for the KU Institute for Community Engagement. Her research focuses on health services using telemedicine and videoconferencing technologies. She has served as principal investigator and collaborator on a number of grants pairing distance education and clinical telemedicine to address access gaps across the lifespan. Recent projects are the evaluation of mobile telebehavioral health approaches delivered to the home as well as a trial evaluating telebehavioral services to rural children living in poverty. In addition, Dr. Nelson spearheads KUMC's replication of the national Project Extension of Healthcare Outcomes. She is a licensed psychologist who leads a multidisciplinary telemedicine clinic providing services throughout rural and urban settings and across primary care clinics, schools, and other sites. She supervises health trainees across disciplines in learning about telemental health and adopting technologies into practice. Marlene M. Maheu, PhD, is a consultant, trainer, author, and researcher. She is the executive director of the TeleMental Health Institute, Inc. For more than 20 years, Dr. Maheu's focus has been on the legal and ethical risk management issues related to the use of technologies in behavioral health. She has trained more than 15,000 licensed clinicians and overseen the development and delivery of professional training in telemental health via an eLearning platform that has served clinicians in 39 countries worldwide. She has written peer-reviewed articles, authored four telehealth textbooks, and served on professional association committees and task forces related to behavioral telehealth. Her vision and passion for the legal and ethical use of technology have led to her presidency of multiple nonprofit groups, including the American Counseling Association's Counseling and Technology Interest Network and the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science. In her consulting role, she has led teams for elemental health program design and strategic planning, technology choices, technology development, staff recruitment, staff training, risk management, credentialing, reimbursement, and outcome research. Through a new company, BehaviorIT, she also consults with technology startup companies developing behavioral health technologies that seek to improve outcomes by automating behavioral services for employers, health plans, primary and specialty care offices, and universities.
