“What Next?”: Toward Telebehavioral Health Sustainability in Couple and Family Therapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-13-2020

Publication Title

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

First page number:

1

Last page number:

15

Abstract

As a response to the COVID-19 global crisis, many in the couple/marital and family therapy (CMFT) professional community quickly met the challenge of providing services to clients via telebehavioral health (TBH) services. As this public health emergency endures, family therapists must continue to engage in TBH practice professionally and ethically. The rapid adoption of TBH with minimal training and experience during this public health emergency can result in crises for both individual therapists as well as for the profession in implementing electronic record-keeping, conducting virtual sessions, and communicating online with various clinical populations. The risk of insufficient training and supervision create a challenge to new and experienced family therapists. This article summarizes the work done by the profession thus far to respond to this public health emergency and presents a roadmap of recommendations for navigating those challenges into the future and offers ideas about how to sustain quality TBH practice.

Keywords

Clinical practice; Education; Public health; Telebehavioral health; Training

Disciplines

Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling | Telemedicine

Language

English

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