Remote Coaching of Caregivers via Telehealth: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Dorothea C. Lerman; Matthew J. O'Brien; Leslie Neely; Nathan A. Call; Loukia Tsami; Kelly M. Schieltz; Wendy K. Berge; Jessica Graber; Pei Huang; Todd Kopelman; Linda J. Cooper-Brown

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Remote Coaching of Caregivers via Telehealth: Challenges and Potential Solutions

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Remote Coaching of Caregivers via Telehealth: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Dorothea C. Lerman, Matthew J. O'Brien, Leslie Neely, Nathan A. Call, Loukia Tsami, Kelly M. Schieltz, Wendy K. Berge, Jessica Graber, Pei Huang, Todd Kopelman, …

Journal of behavioral education, Vol.29(2), pp.195-221

06/01/2020

DOI: 10.1007/s10864-020-09378-2

PMCID: PMC9455948

PMID: 36093285

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The use of telehealth technologies to provide clinical services to families of children with autism and other developmental disabilities is a rapidly growing area of research. In particular, remote training of caregivers via video conferencing appears to be a promising approach for disseminating behavior-analytic interventions (Neely et al. in J Dev Phys Disabil 29:849-874, 2017. 10.1007/s10882-017-9550-4; Tomlinson et al. in J Behav Educ 27:172-222, 2018. 10.1007/s10864-018-9292-0). Although remote training offers a number of advantages, it brings a variety of challenges that are unique to this modality. The field would benefit from information on problems that practitioners may encounter when providing these services and how to train caregivers effectively. In this paper, we report on the experiences of 18 practitioners who provided caregiver training via telehealth from four different sites across a 4-year period. We describe a variety of technical and clinical issues that arose during service delivery, suggest strategies for preventing and remediating problems, and include case descriptions and data to illustrate our experiences. This information may help prepare practitioners to deliver telehealth services and guide further research in this area.

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Title: Subtitle: Remote Coaching of Caregivers via Telehealth: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Creators: Dorothea C. Lerman - University of Houston - Clear Lake
Matthew J. O'Brien - Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
Leslie Neely - The University of Texas at San Antonio
Nathan A. Call - Marcus Foundation
Loukia Tsami - University of Houston - Clear Lake
Kelly M. Schieltz - University of Iowa
Wendy K. Berge - Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
Jessica Graber - Action Network
Pei Huang - University of Iowa
Todd Kopelman - University of Iowa
Linda J. Cooper-Brown - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of behavioral education, Vol.29(2), pp.195-221
DOI: 10.1007/s10864-020-09378-2
PMID: 36093285
PMCID: PMC9455948
NLM abbreviation: J Behav Educ
ISSN: 1053-0819
eISSN: 1573-3513
Publisher: Springer Nature
Number of pages: 27
Grant note: R01MH104363 / National Institutes of Mental Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 17126; 20275 / Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Autism Grant Program
Language: English
Date published: 06/01/2020
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Pediatric Psychology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
Record Identifier: 9984293758102771

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