Toward Proficiency in Telebehavioral Health: Applying Interprofessional Competencies in Couple and Family Therapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-18-2021

Publication Title

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

First page number:

1

Last page number:

16

Abstract

© 2021 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy During the coronavirus pandemic, many behavioral health professionals providing psychotherapeutic services, including couple/marriage and family therapists (C/MFTs), quickly changed from providing in-person services to telebehavioral health (TBH) services, with specific reliance on teleconferencing. Many therapists were thrust into telehealth with minimal or no prior telebehavioral health experience, education, or training. Although TBH services have been shown to be effective and efficient with mental health and substance abuse problems, the teaching and learning of telebehavioral competencies have generally not been included in the formal education and training received by C/MFTs. This article presents an existing interprofessional telebehavioral health competencies framework not before published in C/MFT journals. This article will also demonstrate how those competencies are applicable to the education, training, and practice of telebehavioral health by C/MFTs. Implications for educational, service, and regulatory organizations are presented.

Keywords

Couple and family therapy competencies; Online couple and family therapy; Systemic telebehavioral health; Telehealth; Telemental health; Teletherapy

Disciplines

Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling

Language

English

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