Benefits
• Highly topical: Teletherapy is a booming trend within the counseling profession, with 21% of adults having used teletherapy within the past year (ForbesHealth). Teletherapy is now becoming a core part of the counseling curriculum, given that it requires specific skills and practical training.
• Curriculum aligned: Aligned to the two most widely used classifications in the teaching, learning, and research of the field: the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD 10) from the World Health Organization, and The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (DSM-5-TR) published by the American Psychiatric Association.
• Diverse, equitable, inclusive: Covers a wide range of cultural backgrounds and shows students how best to approach and conduct teletherapy with clients who hold different identities to their own.
• Unique content: content not found in any other product.
Types of video and areas covered include:
DSM-5-TR & ICD 10 guided videos:
Symptom Media’s DSM-5-TR & ICD 10 guided films showcase mental health symptoms unfolding. Films are used and integrated in undergraduate, graduate and professional nursing, social work, psychology, counseling, psychiatry and occupational therapy programs to introduce and improve understanding, recognition and diagnosing of psychiatric disorders as well as improve student clinical competency.
Teletherapy videos:
These video case studies showcase updated criteria for various disorders, some brand new to DSM-5-TR. The provider will demonstrate how to differentiate between the presenting problem, possible alternatives, and comorbid conditions, including use of various open-source screeners in their practice.
Ethics and boundaries:
This video series demonstrates the potential consequences of not upholding professional boundaries with clients when conducting teletherapy. Through his missteps, the provider will highlight the importance of obtaining fully informed consent for evidence-based practices, doing our due diligence to vet telehealth platforms, and exploring our own counter transference.
Culturally responsive therapy:
These videos showcase the challenges for providers who conduct teletherapy with clients who hold different identities from their own. By remaining client-centered, leading with curiosity, and using radical empathy, the provider is able to engage in culturally responsive practices that allow the client to freely explore their own identities.
- Erika: This series showcases important considerations when working with transgender clients, particularly those who experience socio-economic stressors, such as being unemployed and unhoused. The provider will demonstrate evidence-based practices for de-escalating a dysregulated client using techniques they learned in prior sessions.
- Sonya: This series showcases challenges that may arise when working with clients who are single mothers and experience identity-based discrimination in the workplace. The provider will demonstrate how to provide psycho-education to a client who has misgivings about therapy, and how to empower the client to advocate for themselves outside of session.
- Oscar: This series showcases important considerations when engaging a client who recently immigrated to the U.S. The provider will demonstrate how to help the client explore the challenges of adjusting to his new life, including processing gender roles, grieving his old life in his home country, and navigating the challenges of undocumented status.
- Olivia: This series showcases challenges that may arise working with adolescent clients who are exposed to ongoing community violence, particularly in the Black community. The provider will demonstrate how to acknowledge harm done to minoritized individuals by medical professionals without undermining the importance of therapy. She will also help the client explore their faith practices and build autonomy to make personal decisions about them.
And much more!
Best-in-Class Platform and Interface Optimized for Video
Features include:
• Searchable, scrolling transcript and captions
• Easy to use clipmaker
• Easy integration with courseware including LTI 1.3- one click to embed in LMS
• Ability to translate into a variety of languages (including Spanish)
• Slow down or speed up playback
• Auto adjust video quality based on bandwidth: never lag or buffer
• Citations powered by Refworks
Who is using Teletherapy Skills in Video?
• Students watch video to learn from practical examples of teletherapy sessions. Learning objectives include communication skills unique to teletherapy, how to establish trust and therapeutic bond and how to establish boundaries, within a video session.
• Video provides students with an opportunity to observe sessions with clients of differing ethnicities and gender identities, that they might not otherwise be exposed to in their training.
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