This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Just a couple of weeks ago, New England Baptist Hospital banned Facebook and other social media sites due to concerns that hospital employees were sharing too much about patient care in their online updates. The hospital […]
October 19, 2009 Dear Therapists, Our names are Keely Kolmes and Dan Taube and we are licensed psychologists who would like to request your participation in our research on the effects of encountering client information on the Internet on practicing therapists. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Alliant International University. […]
This Friday, October 23rd, I will be presenting a 5 hour Continuing Education training that I organized for the annual Northern California Training Directors Conference. This conference will be attended by Training Directors and clinical trainees of fifteen Bay Area college counseling centers. I will be joined by James Lyda, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist at the […]
The PanelPicker doesn’t close until the end of the day next Friday, September 4th. So if you like the panel I’m co-proposing with Dr. John Grohol, and you haven’t yet voted, please do. We are working on adding some great speakers who are working within technology and psychology. And please know that comments and questions […]
The SXSW 2010 PanelPicker is live today and I’m very excited about the panel that I have submitted for SXSW Interactive with John Grohol, Psy.D., CEO and co-founder of the mental health network, PsychCentral. You can vote for our panel (and others you’re excited about seeing at SXSW 2010, including music and film panels) by […]
Psych Central posted a list today of their Top Ten Psych Tweeps, and I was honored to have been given number one spot in their list. What a lovely surprise to wake up to this morning! While I had been using Twitter socially since 2006, it hadn’t occurred to me to create a professional Twitter […]
This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits DeeAnna Merz Nagel posted an entry today on the American Counseling Association’s blog entitled Is it okay to “Google” your client?. This is a great question, and a timely one, as it seems to be coming […]
This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Managing Facebook as a Mental Professional In my last installment on social media for mental health professionals, I spoke about how to manage Twitter. Now we move on to Facebook which gets a little bit more […]
*November 5, 2012: If you’re interested in the Alpha launch of my new Getting Better product for getting feedback from your psychotherapy clients, after treatment has ended, read this post. This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Recently, I attended Mental Health Camp, […]
This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits I have been working on a series of articles about Managing Social Networking Sites as a Mental Health Professional. I had initially posted this one about Twitter on Links for Shrinks, but I’ve gotten a couple […]