The Use of Telehealth in Behavioral Health and Educational Contexts during COVID‐19 and Beyond

This chapter provides an overview of how COVID-19 has impacted service delivery for behavioral health and education specialists. It aims to address some of the issues and to serve as an introduction to helping professionals who wish to learn more about telehealth service delivery in behavioral health and educational service contexts. The chapter offers supporting research and practical suggestions for utilizing technology for these service delivery settings beyond the current pandemic. For delivering behavioral health services, it considers only the psychological service of individual psychotherapy although group therapy and psychological assessment are both services that are also relevant and important to consider. The spread of COVID-19 has been associated with an emergent need for healthcare professionals to modify their provision of mental health services. The chapter discusses telepractice for early childhood interventions and for children with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities. © 2021 John Wiley and Sons Inc.