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.
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).
“This work is meant to educate those unfamiliar with advances in mental health treatment using telecommunications, as well as to inform those already working in these environments with these technologies about the most recent evidence-based practices. … This book provides a succinct summary of what e-mental health is, and what it has the possibility to become. … its contents are valuable and thought-provoking.” (Steven T. Herron, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2016)
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