Registrants will receive further information for participating via Zoom Webinar for the presentation.

Understanding the Federal and State Advocacy Landscape
The APA Advocacy team provides participants interactive training in federal advocacy skills and how to be effective advocates for psychology in their own communities. The presentation to IPA will include:

• Overview of federal and state funding issues.
• Overview of mental health licensing issues.
• Overview of range of advocacy actions and how policymakers interpret them.
• Q&A

Learning Objectives:
By completing this program, participants will able to:
1.   Describe at least 3 actions one can undertake while engaging in advocacy.
2.   Describe at least 1 federal or state funding mechanism for psychological services.
3.   Identify at least 1 policy issue pertaining to state mental health services licensing.

Presenter Bio: Alix Ginsberg, MPH, Deputy Chief of State Advocacy, aginsberg@apa.org 
Alexandra “Alix” Ginsberg, MPH, is the Deputy Chief of State Advocacy at the American Psychological Association. For over a decade, Ginsberg has advanced key psychology workforce priorities on Capitol Hill, including increased federal support for psychology education and training and access to high-quality mental and behavioral health services for at-risk populations. Ginsberg supports strategic advocacy initiatives for APA, including its grassroots work and the Psychology PAC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Syracuse University, and Master’s in Public Health from the George Washington University.

Alix Ginsberg
 

Deborah C. Baker, JD is the Head of the Professional Legal & Regulatory Affairs Office for the American Psychological Association. She works with APA leadership and members, state psychological associations, regulatory bodies and external stakeholders on a variety of issues involving telehealth and digital therapeutics, HIPAA compliance and patient data security and scope of practice/licensure including prescriptive authority and interjurisdictional practice.

Ms. Baker has provided support to several APA task forces in developing association policies, such as the current revision to the APA Model Licensure Act for Psychologists, the 2024 APA Guidelines on the Practice of Telepsychology, APA Guidelines for the Use of Social Media and APA policies on prescriptive authority for psychologists and designation of psychopharmacology training programs.  She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law.  She is licensed in both Washington DC and Virginia.

Deborah Baker

Special Note to Conference Attendees
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
 
Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:

• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.
• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.

Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice.
 
Please note that APA rules require that credit be given only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving early will not receive CE credits. Partial credit cannot be given. We ask that all participants return the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program. Alix, Deborah, and IPA have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
 
CE certificates will be distributed via email withing two weeks post-event. 
 
Registration Fees
IPA New, Premier, Platinum, Emeritus-Practicing, and Student Members - $0
IPA Basic, Emeritus-Retired Members, and Affiliate Members - $15
Non-Members - Psychologists and Other Professionals $30
*If a non-member Student seeking to attend, please either join IPA (free membership with "sponsorship" by an IPA Academic Member or, if outside the state of Indiana, please contact info@indianapsychology.org.

Registration will close on Thursday, December 18th, 2025.

Registrants will receive further information for participating via Zoom Webinar for the presentation.

Program Description:  Clinician and Youth Perspectives on the Use of Teletherapy
During and following the COVID-19 pandemic, a proliferation of telehealth occurred. Notably, teletherapy became a lifeline for youth needing access to behavioral health services amidst a nationally-acknowledged behavioral health crisis. Telehealth services offer the possibility of decreasing barriers to accessing behavioral health care, especially for families who live in rural areas or those from socioeconomically-disadvantaged backgrounds. However, the widespread adoption of telehealth also presents trade-offs for clinicians and families in key ethical and practice domains related to risk, patient engagement, and effectiveness. Current guidelines are over a decade old and inadequate to support clinicians in making evidence-based decisions about the appropriate use of telehealth. 

In this presentation, we describe findings from interviews with clinicians, youth, and their caregivers regarding their experiences with teletherapy and their decision-making processes surrounding its use. We describe key themes emerging from these interviews and offer guidance and recommendations for how to carefully consider the use of teletherapy for youth and their families.
   
Learning Objectives
By completing this program, participants will able to:
1.  Describe rapid increase in use of teletherapy for children and families.
2.  Identify known limitations and effectiveness of use of teletherapy with youth and families
3.  Describe prominent themes in qualitative interviews completed with clinicians, youth, and their family about advantages, disadvantages, and decision-making in use of teletherapy
4.  Apply ethical principles to the evidence-based practices of telehealth with youth and families 


Presenter Bio: Allison E. Meyer, PhD, HSPP
Dr. Meyer has been an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine since 2022.  She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke University in 2020 and completed her psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Her clinical interests are in exposure-based treatment of pediatric anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders, with a particular focus on parent-centered treatment.
Her research interests include dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into community settings and affective mechanisms of reassurance seeking in anxiety disorders. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Casey Pederson to develop tool to assist clinicians’ ethical decision making about appropriate use of telehealth for youth and families.

Dr. Allison Meyer

Presenter Bio:  Casey A. Pederson, PhD, HSPP
Dr. Pederson is a clinical child psychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of potentially life-threatening behaviors in adolescents, such as aggression, substance use, and suicide risk, with a focus on addressing these concerns among legally involved youth. Holding a doctorate from the University of Kansas, Dr. Pederson fortified her expertise through specialized training at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, concentrating on juvenile justice and behavioral health. Her postdoctoral training at Indiana University School of Medicine centered on implementing evidence-based assessments and treatments for adolescent substance use for both justice-involved and community youth. Currently, she is the director of the suicide prevention services offered through the Riley Child Outpatient Clinic (including the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality, Dialectical Behavior Therapy), and she engages in research designed to connect youth experiencing high-risk conditions to outpatient treatment and improve their quality of care.

Dr. Casey Pederson

Special Note to Conference Attendees
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
 
Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:

• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.

• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.

Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice.
 
Please note that APA rules require that credit be given only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving early will not receive CE credits. Partial credit cannot be given. We ask that all participants return the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program. Drs. Meyer & Pederson and IPA have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
 
CE certificates will be distributed via email withing two weeks post-event. 
 
Registration Fees
IPA New, Premier, Platinum, Emeritus-Practicing, and Student Members - $0
IPA Basic, Emeritus-Retired Members, and Affiliate Members - $15
Non-Members - Psychologists and Other Professionals $30
*If a non-member Student seeking to attend, please either join IPA (free membership with "sponsorship" by an IPA Academic Member or, if outside the state of Indiana, please contact info@indianapsychology.org.

Registration will close on Thursday, February 19th, 2025.