Telehealth Resources U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Telehealth Visit http://www.hrsa.gov/telehealth/ for the website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration's website.  This useful site provides a report on telehealth  licensure requirements and trends for many health professions across the country.  By clicking on Publications you then have access to their Telemedicine Licensure Report, the document "Telemental Health: Delivering Mental Health Care at a Distance," and a number of other useful documents and links.   Psychotherapists' Professional Associations: American Counseling Association (ACA). Ethical Standards for Internet Online Counseling. (Section A.12.) http://www.cacd.org/ACA_2005_Ethical_Code10405.pdf American Psychiatric Association (ApA). Telepsychiatry http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/telepsych.cfm American Psychological Association (APA). Statement on Services by Telephone, Teleconferencing, and Internet. http://www.apa.org/ethics/stmnt01.html National Board for Certified Counselors (NASW). The Practice of Internet Counseling. http://www.nbcc.org/webethics2 Clinical Social Work Federation (CFSW). Position Paper on Internet Text-Based Counseling. http://www.cswf.org/www/therapy.html National Council for State Boards of Nursing: http://www.ncsbn.org/files/mutual.asp State Licensing Boards: California Board of Psychology (CA-BOP): Notice to California Consumers Regarding the Practice of Psychology on the Internet http://www.psychboard.ca.gov/internet_therapy.htm Telemedicine Licensure Report by the Center for Telemedicine Law see Telehealth Laws by State and Other State Laws Impacting Telehealth Practice (Sections III and IV) http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/lincensure.htm Federal Laws and Regulations: American Psychiatric Association: Legal & Licensing Issues http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/care_faq.cfm Federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth: http://telehealth.hrsa.gov/ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration Telemedicine, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Technical Assistance Documents: Introduction, pages 1-5, and Chapter 9, Mental Health, pages 188-205. http://muhealth.org/%7Etelehealth/geninfo/TAD.pdf National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (2000). Translating behavioral science into action: Report of the National Advisory Mental Health Council Behavioral Science Workgroup. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/council/bswsummary.cfm Medicare & Medicaid:  Reimbursement of Telehealth Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2005, H.R. 2807: Update by GovTrack.us: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-2807 Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2005, By The Library of Congress, THOMA: http://www.atmeda.org/news/Medicare_Telehealth_Enhancement_Act_of_ 2005.pdf#search=%22Medicare%20Telehealth%20Enhancement%20Act%22 Medicaid Telehealth, Nebraska: http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/med/telehealthFAQ.htm Professional Telehealth Associations: American Telemedicine Association: www.americantelemed.org Association of Telemedicine Service Providers: www.atsp.org Canadian Society of Telehealth: http://www.cst-sct.org Center for Telemedicine Law http://www.ctl.org/ International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO): http://www.ismho.org/ International Society for Telemedicine - http://www.isft.org Telemedicine Information Exchange - http://tie.telemed.org/ Online Journals: Journal of Medical Internet Research: http://www.jmir.org/2002/2/e12/ Telemedicine Today magazine: http://telemedtoday.com Miscellaneous Resources: Grohol, J.M., E-Therapy Essays: http://psychcentral.com/best Maheu, M., Resources on Telehealth: http://www.telehealth.net Center for Telehealth: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/telemedicine/ MyTherapyNet - Host Online Therapy http://www.mytherapy.net/ Online Articles on Telehealth: Darer. B. (1998).  Telemedicine: A State-Based Answer To Health Care In America http://www.student.virginia.edu/%7Evjolt/graphics/vol3/vol3_art4.html DiBlassio, J., Simonin, D., DeCarlo, A., Moore, L., Jean, J., Vassalotte, L., Franks, K., & Chambliss, C. (1999). Assessing the quality of psychological healthcare sites available on the Internet. Perspectives, 4(4). http://mentalhelp.net/perspectives/articles/art12982 Grohol, J. M. (1999). Best Practices in eTherapy: Definition & Scope of e-therapy. http://www.grohol.com/best/best5.htm Gross, S. J. (2000). Internet characteristics and the ethical issues raised by online counseling. https://www.helphorizons.com/vo/library/ article.asp?id=89 Holmes, L. (1997). Who regulates health on the net? http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth/ library/weekly/aa010499.htm Holmes, L. (1999a). You can't do psychotherapy on the Net, yet. http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth/ library/weekly/aa010499.htm Holmes, L. (1999b). It's just not therapy. http://mentalhealth.about.com/mentalhealth/ health/library/weekly/aa032299.htm Maheu, M.M. (1999a). Risk management in the re-tooling of health care. http://telehealth.net/articles/riskman3.html Maheu, M.M. (1999b). Telehealth - A call to action. http://telehealth.net/articles/action.html Maheu, M.M. (2000). Delivering behavioral telehealth via the Internet: eHealth. Telehealth.net. http://telehealth.net/articles/deliver.html Maheu, M.M. (2000). Telehealth: The furthering of psychology as a profession. Telehealth.net. http://telehealth.net/articles/further.html Rabasca, L. (1999). HCFA rejects telehealth payment for psychologists. Monitor Online, 30(2). http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb99/tele.html

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