This contract gains the client’s informed consent to email, text and phone contact as well as how homework tasks and questionnaires will be administered. The contract is the same for online and face to face clients as the tasks that must be accomplished are similar. However, it is especially important to clarify these details with online clients given this is the sole means of communication and the risks therefore greater.
At the end of the assessment phase and when we are ready to start therapy. At this stage I set clients up with a free encrypted email account and share the Email and Phone Contract.
This contract comprises an email template which outlines how we will communicate with one another electronically and the platforms we will use to do so. It describes how I will set them up with a free encrypted anonymous email account and why that is important. Finally it asks for their consent to be contacted in the ways outlined.
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* Please note the PDF templates are partially editable. You can insert your logo and company name and fields are available for clients to insert their information. However, as they are PDFs certain formatting features are fixed. You can however fully edit the Word documents which contain identical content.