Articles for PracticeUpdate newsletters reside in categories based on their subject matter, with the email newsletter appearing twice monthly in subscribers’ e-mailboxes. Below are links to articles from 2018 to the present, sorted by the date of the original email newsletter publication:
PracticeUpdate Newsletter Issues
2020
October 16
- COVID-19: Is it legal to treat clients in another state?
- Optum adopts APA's guide on billing for testing services
- How to take charge of online reviews
September 25
- Help APA prevent payment cuts to psychologists’ services
- APA teams up with Farm Aid to address farmer stress
- Increasing the visibility of providers of color
- Become a member of the Committee on Professional Practice and Standards (PDF, 88KB)
September 11
- Share your concerns: Comment on proposed payment cuts to psychologists’ services
- Using mobile apps with patients who have experienced trauma
- How to talk to your patients about firearm safety
- Help APA update the Clinical Practice Guideline on PTSD
- Webinar: Impact of COVID-19 on alcohol use in the U.S.
- Seven ways to get better at delivering bad news
August 14
- Medicare proposals for 2021: Psychologists’ payments impacted
- APA Services stops abusive insurance recoupment demands over $100,000
- How to provide telehealth to older adults
- Practice guidelines: What’s been done and what’s coming
- Free journal resources on practicing during COVID-19: Special issues
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July 31
- Treating people of color: Three essential ways to prepare
- Supporting families with loved ones in the ICU
- Raising reimbursement
- Convention: Enroll now for APA 2020 virtual CE workshops
July 17
- Want to offer free sessions? First know the risks
- Delirium, PTSD, brain fog: The aftermath of surviving COVID-19
- Webinar recording: Troubleshooting “Zoom fatigue” in the era of telehealth
- Convention: Enroll now for APA 2020 virtual CE workshops
July 2
- How APA Services is working for you during the COVID-19 crisis
- Five tips for transitioning your practice to telehealth
- After DACA victory, attention turns to mental health needs
- Webinar: Providing mental health telehealth services in farming and rural communities
June 19
- APA ensures psychologists have access to PPE through Amazon
- Tips for doing effective phone therapy
- Shorter application form now available for Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness
- Stress in America: Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two
- Webinar: Improving mental health care by understanding the culture of farming and rural communities
June 5
- COVID-19: What the Ethics Code says about reopening your practice now
- How to launch a practice that is 100 percent online
- Psychologists embrace telehealth to prevent the spread of COVID-19
May 22
- Treating anxiety and stress in front-line workers: A step-by-step CBT guide
- CMS recognizes PSYPACT licensure requirements for interstate practice
- Providing psychodynamic care during COVID-19
- Relationship-oriented psychotherapy during COVID-19
May 8
- Resuming in-person services during COVID-19
- Updated telehealth guidance by state in response to COVID-19
- Treating front-line workers: A step-by-step guide
- Serious mental illness and COVID: How to help your patients right now
- Let’s Get Technical: Mindfulness apps for kids
May 1
- Billing update
Phone only telehealth services for Medicare during COVID-19
April 16
- How to provide telehealth in nursing homes
- Answers to practicing psychologists’ latest questions about providing telehealth services
- Pain management in a crisis: APA’s guidance on doing assessments and treating chronic pain during the COVID-19 crisis
- Telehealth testing with children: Important things to consider
- How COVID-19 may affect presurgical psychological evaluations
April 9
- Telehealth guidance by state during COVID-19
- How to do group therapy using telehealth
- Is your patient’s anxiety or depression related to COVID-19?
- Managing COVID-19 concerns for people with OCD
- Get federal aid for your business during the pandemic
April 2
- APA calls for comprehensive telehealth coverage
- Teleneuropsychology: New resources for your practice
- Connecting with children and adolescents via telehealth during COVID-19
- Four ethics tips to remember during COVID-19
- Research proving benefits of teletherapy
- How to do psychological testing via telehealth
- The latest Medicare updates related to COVID-19
March 27
- Latest Developments for Practicing Psychologists in Response to COVID-19
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Coronavirus
- Self-Care Advice for Health-Care Providers
- Social Isolation Can Be Dangerous for Older Adults: Here’s How Psychologists Can Help
- Quality Reporting Changes During COVID-19
- Combatting Bias and Stigma Related to COVID-19
- 6 Ways to Help Your Child Manage Their Anxiety During COVID-19
March 18
- What the COVID-19 telehealth waiver means for psychology practitioners
- How to prepare your office for telehealth
- Informed consent checklist for telepsychological services
- FAQs: Psychology training and COVID-19
- Want more info on telepsychology?
March 5
- COVID-19 and psychology services: How to prepare your practice
- My first year: What to look for in an office
- Webinar: Build a better website
- Help develop APA’s next Clinical Practice Guideline
February 20
- Medicaid changes that benefit psychologists
- Research roundup: Working with traumatized youth
- Psychologists needed for Clinical Practice Guideline development
- Help APA Services, Inc. advocate for psychologists on reimbursement Issues
February 6
January 23
- When your private therapeutic relationships become public
- Five steps to building a powerful brand
- Do you see Medicare patients? Join the Mental and Behavioral Health Registry
January 9
2019
December 12
- Let's Get Technical: Comparing the latest telehealth solutions
- Why you need a professional will today
- How to protect your practice from the latest scam
November 21
- Research roundup: Evidence-based strategies for treating chronic pain
- State Beat: Texas creates a new regulatory board for psychologists
November 7
- Psychologists will see payment increases for health behavior services in 2020
- Running start ... to a great career: Avoiding burnout
October 24
- Research roundup: How to build a more effective therapy group
- State Beat: Psychologists win exemption to new 'gig workers' law in California
- Call for comments: Proposed Guidelines for the Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychological Practice
October 10
- Psychologists’ Health and Behavior codes are changing
- Boost your reimbursement with quality reporting
- Shutting Down: What the law says about closing your practice
September 26
- Let's Get Technical: Choosing the right CBT app
- State Beat: New state laws expand options for prescribing psychologists
- APA’s New Depression Treatment Resource
September 12
- Research roundup: Traumatic events and the LGBTQ community
- Helping communities after Hurricane Dorian
- Running start... to a great career: Keeping up with the research
- Quality reporting for mental and behavioral health professionals
August 22
- Proposed rule offers better Medicare reimbursement for psychologists
- Connecticut law requires insurers to demonstrate parity
July 25
- Research roundup: Treating women of color
- Shutting Down: How to protect your patients when closing your practice
- A new issue of Good Practice
July 11
- Arizona eases licensure for out-of-state psychologists
- More reports of telephone scammers targeting psychologists
- Self-care for psychologists
June 27
- Using unsecure email
- Running start... to a great career: Enhancing cultural competence
- Progress Notes: Self-care for psychologists
- Five key ways psychologists are tackling the opioid crisis
June 13
- D.C. psychologists ask for Medicaid reimbursement
- APA’s Depression Guideline now available
- Let's Get Technical: Software for practice
- Continuing Education Workshop: Crisis response planning for preventing suicidal behaviors
- Monitor on Psychology: New solutions for the opioid crisis (June 2019)
May 30
- APA Calls for changes to Medicare audit rules
- Sending and receiving patient information
- Disaster response resources
- Call for Comments: Guidelines for practice with service members and veterans
May 16
- State Beat: Updated resource for aid-in-dying evaluations
- Research roundup: Engaging fathers in treatment
- May webinar series on testing codes
- Progress Notes: Finding a niche in reproductive psychology
May 2
- Compact allowing interstate practice for psychologists takes effect
- APA works to resolve problems with payments for psychological testing services
- Shutting down: Selling your practice
April 18
- Psychologists in Texas fight to keep regulatory board independent
- Research roundup: Children with autism
- Progress Notes: Sharing your expertise in the media
- Call for comments: Guidelines for practice with service members and veterans
April 4
- Running start… to a great career: Starting a family
- Obesity guideline resources available
- Call for comments: New guidelines for psychological practice
March 21
- New mental health apps review column
- Advocating for improved access to mental health care
- APA honors U.S. Rep. Lowenthal for mental health leadership
- Call for nominations: MBHR
- A new opioid guide for psychologists
March 7
- Prescribing rights in Iowa and Idaho
- MIPS eligibility
- Shutting down a practice
- Call for nominations: MBHR
- APA establishes new Office of Applied Psychology
Feb. 21
- New York parity compliance law takes effect
- Research roundup: Monitoring treatment progress
- Interventions to prevent perinatal depression
- Progress Notes podcast: A practicing psychologist in tech
Feb. 7
- New bill would add psychologists to “physician” definition
- APA’s clinical data registry helps psychologists with value-based payment programs
- Clinicians Corner: Understanding behavioral addictions
- APA guidelines on boys and men launch national conversation
Jan. 24
- Research roundup: Healthy aging and the positivity effect
- 2019 Tricare advocacy
- Profile of the executive director of the New Jersey Psychological Association
- Call for nominations: Treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
Jan. 10
- CMS adds psychologists to MIPS
- Working with the media
- New psychological and neuropsychological codes in effect
- Call for nominations: Treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
2018
Dec. 13
- Self-care for psychologists
- Midterm election wins
- Progress Notes podcast: Helping veterans heal
- Call for nominations: Treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
Nov. 15
- 2018 Stress in America report
- Medicaid reimbursement changes
- A global effort to help veterans
- Research roundup: Working with adults adopted as children
- Testing code webinar
Nov. 1
- Testing code changes Q&A
- Call for nominations
- Psychologists running for office
Oct. 18
- More info on testing codes
- Research roundup: Telehealth & the practice of psychology
- Opioids policy changes
Oct. 4
- New testing codes
- New ethics rules
- Kentucky psychologist makes a run for office
- Advice on finding a postdoc
Sept. 20
Date created: 2008
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