National Psychology Training Consortium

Intermediate --- Builds upon the learner's foundational knowledge, familiarity with the literature and/or experience in a content area. Programming at this level includes more depth than at a beginning level program. It could also serve as a refresher course for individuals who have background in a content area and are interested in learning more contemporary applications.

Course Description and Target Audience

In the past few years, it has become more mainstream to offer supervision services online, increasing students' access to diverse training opportunities and making supervision more flexible and accessible. However, supervisors must be adequately trained in providing supervision through this method. In addition to the convenience and benefits, tele-supervision comes with challenges and limitations. This course provides you with skills and knowledge to provide tele-supervision to your supervisees.

Mental health professionals who provide supervision to students or pre-licensed providers. Please see the bibliography for citations. Research has found that tele-supervision has comparable out comes to in-person as far as training efficacy as long as the supervisor is adequately trained in this method of teaching. There are added challenges with tele-supervision, which are addressed in the presentation and include technical issues, fewer informal check-ins, and multitasking in supervision sessions. Again, citations are in the bibliography. I do not know of any risks associated with this particular training.

Just as tele-supervision increases students' access to more diverse training opportunities, supervisors who use this method of teaching must have appropriate competency to support more diverse trainees and their more diverse client bases. This is addressed in the course.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to analyze ethical, legal, and practical considerations for tele-supervision.
• Participants will be able to modify existing supervision models to be applicable and effective in a telehealth setting.
• Participants will be able to develop methods for effectively evaluating supervisees via tele-supervision.

Presenter Information

Dr. Marschall is a licensed psychologist in seven states and New Zealand. She specializes in trauma-informed care, rural mental health, and diagnosing ADHD and autism. She has a private practice, Resiliency Mental Health, and is the clinical director of A Change for Better, an organization that works to make mental health care affordable without sacrificing sustainability for professionals. She is an author, speaker, and writer, and she is a certified telehealth provider.

Video Homestudy Format

CE’s for this homestudy training will be earned through completing the following tasks:

• Watch the presentation video and review all provided documents in their entirety.
• Pass the post-test questionnaire with at least 80% correct.

A program evaluation form will be provided to all who registered following the training. Please be sure to complete this form since your feedback helps direct future CE programming from our organization.

Registration Cost

This cost includes video links, materials, and tests required to obtain CE’s. Your CE certificate will be made available to you upon successful completion of the training (80% or higher on exam).

National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NPTC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.