Overview

Counselor educators and instructors need impactful and concise strategies to successfully integrate telemental health (TMH) concepts into an already demanding counseling curriculum. As TMH counseling continues to expand in a post-pandemic era, counselor educators and instructors are charged with the responsibility of training the next generation of professional counselors in ethical and effective TMH counseling.Utilizing the CACREP general curriculum and specialization standards as a framework, Integrating Telemental Health Practice into Counselor Education Training provides counselor educators, doctoral students, and instructors with creative ideas, as well as concrete strategies, to infuse content on TMH into their existing courses and curriculum. Readers will benefit from suggested TMH content for each CACREP standard, as well as TMH teaching tips and sample lessons from contributing authors. Lessons include variations for in-person and online instruction. This book provides the counselor educator or doctoral student with a foundational knowledge of TMH with ideas and activities to seamlessly infuse TMH concepts into their counseling courses and curricula.

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Dr. Heather C. Robertson (she/her) is a Professor and the Chair of Counselor Education at St. John’s University. She is a Licensed Professional  Counselor (LPC, CT), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC, NY), Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), Certified Rehabilitation Counselor  (CRC), Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC, NY), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Global Career Development  Facilitator (GCDF), and Board Certified Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH). She earned a PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision  from Virginia Tech, and an MS. in Counseling & Guidance from Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi. Research and advocacy efforts include College and Career Transition, Substance Abuse, Military and Veterans, Telemental Health, and reducing the stigma of Mental Illness and Addiction. She has been researching, publishing, and practicing in telemental health since 2016, having received national, regional, and local grants in her research. She is the author of Telemental Health and Distance Counseling: A Counselor’s Guide to Decisions, Resources, and Practice (2021).

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