This book describes the use of telecommunication technologies to provide mental health services to individuals in communities or locations that are underserviced, typically as a result of their geographic isolation or due to cultural and/or linguistic barriers.

The potential of the e-Mental Health approach is demonstrated in various mental health settings by describing concrete clinical examples and applications involving novel strategies for employing technology. Further, the book presents an approach to cooperation on a global level based on the exchange of expertise and knowledge across national boundaries.

The target audience includes mental health workers (clinicians and staff members), medical and nursing students, academic researchers, technology professionals and health care policy makers.

Details the state of the art in the use of telecommunication for mental health services Describes the theory and demonstrates practice through clinical applications Presents completely new approaches such as Cross-cultural and International Telepsychiatry Services, as well as the use of web-based support programs and promising new methods i.e. avatar, second life virtual patient advocates etc.

Autorentext

Davor Mucic, M.D. is an educated psychiatrist in Denmark. He established the Little Prince Psychiatric Center for refugees and migrants. This Center has been a pioneer in developing telepsychiatry in Denmark since 2000. In 2011 Davor Mucic launched a Telemental Health Section within European Psychiatric Association (EPA). He is also member of the Danish Psychiatric Association, World Psychiatric Association (WPA), World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) and American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and works as an Editor for the Edorium Journal of Psychiatry .

Donald M. Hilty, M.D. is a scholar in psychiatric and medical education, mood disorders, technology applied to clinical practice, and in mentoring of trainees at the Keck School of Medicine, University of California and Los Angeles County. His research involves health services, consultation-liaison models of care, medical education, mood disorders and genomics in underserved medical populations. Dr. Hilty hasauthored over 140 articles, chapters, book reviews, and/or books. He has participated in over 100 peer-reviewed presentations as a member of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), the Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION.- Technology, health and contemporary practice: how does telemental health fit it and what does it offer?.- Unexpected events with new technologies: addiction, consequences on communication.- PREVENTION, EARLY DETECTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION.- Telemental health improves access to care, promotes health, facilitates prevention and provides evidence-based treatments at a distance.- How to evaluate your telemental health program, make improvements and increase clinical, fiscal and administrative.- Treatment of cross cultural populations world wide (international perspectives of telepsychiatry).- CLINICAL CARE MODELS: STEPPED CARE, COLLABORATIVE CARE AND INTEGRATED CARE BY TELEPSYCHIATRY.- The effectiveness of telemental health: evidence base, how to choose the model based ease/cost/strengths and future areas of research.- How telemental health adds to traditional outpatient and newer models of integrated care for patients, providers and systems.- Patient-centered comorbidityapproaches (e.g., depression/diabetes) to MH treatments and the interdisciplinary team.- Social media and clinical practice: what stays the same, what changes and how to plan ahead.- NEW THERAPIES / METHODS / TREATMENTS.- Web-based support and treatment approaches.- Web-based CBT and potential alternatives.- How psychiatric applications are shifting clinical practice: patient reflection, informal and formal clinical care, communication and new approaches to treatment.- CONSEQUENCES, LIMITS AND RISKS.- Global/world wide telehealth: international perspectives of telepsychiatry and the future.- How does the Internet influence the Doctor-Patient Relationship?.- Pathological use of Internet/social media.- From telehealth to an interactive virtual mental health clinic.