Telehealth: Crisis Management with High Risk Clients – Paul Brasler

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Tele-Behavioral health has quickly shifted from something that some of us use some of the time, to one of the primary ways we will practice for the foreseeable future. And while virtual care is a viable, effective treatment method, there are inherent risks every clinician must know how to address, including how to:

• Conduct a mental status exam remotely
• Assess for suicidal ideation and behavior
• Respond effectively to risk of suicide and/or violence from a distance
• Intervene when you suspect your client is under the influence
• And more!

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1. Complete a basic mental health assessment remotely encompassing mental status, lethality assessment, substance use assessment and trauma.
2. Determine when to hospitalize clients struggling with suicidal ideation or violent urges and develop protocols for doing so remotely.
3. Apply coping strategies and support to clients presenting with suicidal ideation by helping to create a safety plan in session.
4. Assess for risk of client violence towards others and develop strategies to safety intervene as well as effectively carry out the clinician’s duty to protect.

1. Tele-Behavioral Health: Rules of the Road
   1. Must-know information for transitioning to telehealth
   2. The importance of gaining consent
2. Client Assessment: Ask the Right Questions
   1. Conducting a mental status exam remotely
   2. Assessing for lethality
3. The Suicidal Client: Recognize Suicide Risk & Effectively Intervene
   1. Understand risk factors
   2. Interventions
   3. Know when to hospitalize
4. The Violent Client: Confidently Manage Dangerous Situations
   1. Review risk factors
   2. Duty to Protect
5. Other areas of concern
   1. How to respond to substance abuse from a distance
   2. Trauma
   3. Documentation