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 bar
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e-Mental Health
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e-Mental Health
Davor Mucic • Donald M. Hilty Editors
e-Mental Health
Editors Davor Mucic The Little Prince Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen Denmark
Donald M. Hilty Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-20851-0 ISBN 978-3-319-20852-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20852-7
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Dedicated to Nikola Tesla
Preface
Dear Readers, This is the book on e-mental health, which is the use of telecommunication and information technologies to deliver mental health services at a distance. The oldest and most comprehensive form of e-mental health is telepsychiatry – videoconferencing in “real-time” (synchronous telemental health). More recently, asynchronous (formerly store-and-forward) telemental health has led to doctor-patient care in many forms: e-mail, video capture of a patient’s history and forwarding to a psychiatrist, and other web- or Internet-based methods. All these forms lead to an evaluation and/or treatment that it is not in real-time. Officially, telemedicine as a term legal implies synchronous means, though it can be complemented by other means; synchronous visual contact is required for calling it “clinical care,” billing companies, and the official term of telepsychiatry, at least in the United States. A broad view of medicine, technology, and telepsychiatry (Chap. 1) extends to specific efforts at prevention (Chap. 3), populations (e.g., addictions Chap. 14), and treatments. We have discussed telepsychiatry internationally since 1996 at scientific meetings, research forums, clinical conferences, and many other venues – some common misunderstandings abound abo
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