Career Paths in Telemental Health

Consultant, trainer, author and researcher, Marlene M.
Maheu, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the TeleMental Health
Institute, Inc., where she has overseen the development
and delivery of professional training in telemental health via an eLearning
platform that serves thousands of clinicians seeking professional training and
consultation from more than 39 countries worldwide.

For more than twenty years, Dr. Maheu's focus has the legal
and ethical risk management issues related to the use of technologies to better
serve behavioral health clients and patients. She has served on a dozen
professional association committees and task forces related to

establishing standards and guidelines telehealth. She
has written dozens of peer-reviewed articles and is lead author of multiple
telehealth textbooks. 

Dr. Maheu  is a technology developer and lectures
internationally on the subject of best practices in the use of various
technologies. She is a staunch advocate for technological change to reach more
people, reduce health care costs and improve the quality of care via self-help,
wireless technologies and telepractice.Kenneth Drude, Ph.D. has a doctorate in counseling psychology from the
University of Illinois. His telemental health interests include the ethics,
standards, guidelines, policy and regulation of telemental health practice, and
interprofessional relations. He chaired an Ohio Psychological Association committee
that developed the first psychological association telepsychology guidelines in
the United States in 2008.  Dr. Drude served on the Ohio Psychological
Association governing board for 28 years in various capacities and as editor of
The Ohio Psychologist. He currently is
the president of the Ohio Board of Psychology. He was a member of the
Association for State and Provincial Psychology Board's Telepsychology Task
Force that developed an interstate psychology compact.He currently provides
outpatient psychological services in a general private practice in Dayton,
Ohio.Dr. Shawna Wright is a licensed
psychologist in Kansas and Nebraska who works in private practice as a
telepsychologist.  She obtained her graduate training in clinical
psychology from Texas Tech University specializing in child and family
treatment.  She has worked for over a decade in community mental health in
southeastern Kansas as outpatient therapist.  She is currently an
operations manager for two community mental health center offices.
  Through her experience in community mental health, Dr. Wright is
acutely aware of the impact of the shortage of mental health providers in
underserved, rural areas, and she sees the promise of utilizing telehealth as a
medium for providing mental health services to this population.  In 2011,
Dr. Wright completed a comprehensive telemental health certificate training
program through the TeleMentalHealth Institute and initiated a private
practice providing telepsychology services to residents of rural nursing
facilities.  She is a member of the American Psychological Association
(APA), the Kansas Psychological Association (KPA), and the American
Telemedicine Association.  Dr. Wright has a keen interest in working
within these associations to develop standards, training, and resources to
assist psychologist who are interested in telepsychology careers.  She is
the membership chair for the Coalition of Technology in Behavioral Sciences
(CTiBS) and maintains aspirations
of sharing her professional experience to help advance
professional resources for telepsychologist through educational endeavors and
consultation.