- TV Screen, Not Couch, Is Required for This Session

By Kirk Johnson

A growing number of psychiatrists are using telemedicine technology to reach patients in rural swaths of the nation.

Click here for the full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/us/08teleshrink.html?ex=1179892800&en=a2be5b644d46c11a&ei=5070

- Telephone-Based Psychotherapy Shows Durability in Depression

By Judith Groch, Senior Writer, MedPage Today

SEATTLE, For depressed patients on medication but too sad to seek psychotherapy, lasting help may be available by the telephone, researchers found in a follow-up study.

Click here for the full story:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/tb2/5300
 

- Supportive of telephone support in therapy.

LICENSURE UPDATE

Licensure Legislation Moves Forward in California and Nevada
Legislative committees in California and Nevada have recently approved legislation to establish licensure of professional counselors. If enacted, the two laws would complete the adoption of licensure standards for counselors in all fifty states.

In California, the Assembly Business & Professions Committee by a unanimous 10 to 0 vote approved California Assembly Bill 1486 (AB 1486) on Tuesday, April 17th. The bill next goes to the state Assembly Appropriations Committee, which must approve the use of state government monies for carrying out the tasks involved in setting up the profession in the state.

The Appropriations Committee is likely to make a decision on the issue
within the next two weeks. The California Coalition for Counselor Licensure (CCCL) has worked diligently over the past five years to get to this point, and provides updates and background information on the licensure effort at their website at http://www.caccl.org/.

In Nevada, the Senate Commerce & Labor Committee approved Nevada Senate Bill 543 (SB 543) on Friday, April 13th. The legislation will now be forwarded to the full Senate for its approval, which is expected to occur within the next week. The legislation will then be sent to the Nevada Assembly Commerce & Labor Committee for its consideration. The Assembly Commerce & Labor Committee also approved its own version of a counselor licensure bill last week, demonstrating its support for counselor licensure.

Distance Training Updates

ReadyMinds is pleased to share that since Training inception (2004) over 900 Counselors have participated in the two-day DCC Training Workshop.  Counselors from all over the country are benefiting from this training and the interest level continues to grow larger each year.  To hear direct comments from DCC attendees, please visit:
http://www.readyminds.com/training/dcc_testim.htm

Below we have listed the remaining dates and locations for the 2007 DCC Trainings.  We thank you for all of your inquiries and opinions for new co-hosted site locations.

If you are interested in attending a 2007 Training or would like up-to-date training information, please visit our website at: www.readyminds.com/dcclocations.

If you would like to be put on our Master e-mail list to receive updates on when new training sites have been announced, please send an email to Lisa Miller at lisa@readyminds.com. If you are interested in attending a workshop in a specific state(s), please specifically mention that state in your e-mail. We do have co-hosting opportunities still available for this year.

Continuing Education (CE) Hours

Due to popular demand and requests from the Counseling Community, ReadyMinds is now pleased to offer a new CEU course within the specific area of Distance Counseling. The online course is titled, Security Strategies for Distance Counseling via E-mail. Successful completion of the course will result in three (3) NBCC continuing education hours.

The cost is $49.00 and the entire Course can be taken online from the comfort of your own surroundings.

If you are interested in learning more about this course or would like to register, please visit: http://www.readyminds.com/training/ceu.html.
 

ReadyMinds and the Center for Credentialed and Education, Inc, (CCE, an affiliate of the NBCC®) will soon be offering a new online training course.  The online course is titled, Distance Credentialed Facilitator (DCF) and will be launched in June 2007.  For details about this course, please visit http://www.readyminds.com/training/overview.html.

~ 2007 NEW RMDC NEWSLETTER FEATURE ~

“SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DISTANCE JOURNEY…”

ReadyMinds’ Founder & CEO was recently featured in the (NCDA’s)
National Career Development Association Monograph Series:

Randy Miller, Founder & CEO of ReadyMinds was asked to share an inside look into the creation and journey of ReadyMinds, the nation's premiere provider of distance counseling services. In his Chapter 6, "What is Your Strategic Plan", Mr. Miller shares his personal story as well as specific entrepreneurial tips that can assist others.

Mr. Miller is featured along with fifteen other successful entrepreneurs within the field. If you are a risk-taker with an independent style, you will benefit by reading the stories and strategies of successful career entrepreneurs. These contributors share from the dual perspective of active counselors who have grown their own business.

"I like this book, a lot! More and more workers these days are attracted to the idea of running their own business, but lack lessons in how to do that. Now they can listen in to interviews with people who have gone down the road before them - successful, articulate, smart, reflective people talking about how they started their own business. (I know two-thirds of them personally). Required reading, if you are even thinking about starting your own business." --Richard N. Bolles, Author, 2007 What Color Is Your Parachute?

To view more, please visit:
http://www.readyminds.com/about/news_2006_12.htm

Author/Editor:
Dr. Sally Gelardin “Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy: Career Entrepreneurs Share Stories and Strategies” (NCDA, 2007); eLearning Instructor and Curriculum Designer (www.jobjuggler.net, www.lifeworkps.com/eCDF). Dr. Sally Gelardin is the Past-President of the California Career Development Association.

This new interactive feature, “Share Your Personal Story --- of Going The Distance” is being added for 2007-2008  Our Editors want to hear from you regarding your distance journey and how you impact the lives of others. Are you in private practice? affiliated with an organization?, just starting your new journey?, etc….How has the learning or incorporation of Distance Methodologies in your work aided you and others? Your colleagues and the distance community want to know!

When submitting, you can share openly or remain anonymous. Please share challenges, concerns, and struggles as well. Our in-house Editors and Experts in the field will be dedicating time and energy to addressing these open questions and challenges in our next Edition. Please offer permission to publish your entry when submitting. If you wish to remain anonymous, please use your initials only (we will keep your e-mail address/full name confidential).

We thank you in advance for submitting. Send your personal distance journey story to RMDCnewsletter@readyminds.com.

Thank you.