e-Mental Health

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mucic, Davor (Editor), Hilty, Donald M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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