Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals - Softcover

Peter Yellowlees; Jay H. Shore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1615370854 ISBN 13: 9781615370856

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical guide for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals seeking to exploit the enormous potential of today s innovative digital technologies to improve the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of care for patients with psychiatric disorders. Taking the doctor patient relationship as its consistent focus, the book explores currently available mental health care delivery technologies from telephony, smartphones, and apps to e-mail, secure texting, and videoconferencing and offers practical advice to clinicians on how best to make use of these tools to provide high-quality care to their patients. Beginning with an overview of current psychiatric practice, the authors cover the broader context of telepsychiatry, including its history and evidence base; give specific guidance on setting up and managing a telepsychiatry practice; and discuss in-person, online, and hybrid models of care, as well as data collection, electronic records, clinical documentation, and ethics. Foremost a clinical manual, Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals argues that the sensible use of health care technologies will reduce the current gap between mental health care supply and demand, improve models of care delivery, and ultimately lead to better health for more patients than traditional systems of care can provide.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Yellowlees, MBBS, M.D., is Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Davis in Sacramento, California; and President of the American Telemedicine Association, headquartered in Washington, DC. Jay H. Shore, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver and the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the School of Public Health; and Director of Telemedicine at the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center in the University of Colorado Denver s Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.

Review:

Drs. Yellowlees and Shore, two of the leading experts in telepsychiatry in the world, have written the definitive telepsychiatry clinical guide for mental health clinicians. They conscientiously organized the book by working closely with 30 other experts in telepsychiatry and even served as co-authors of seven of 10 chapters. This book is the ultimate guide for the field of telepsychiatry and we should all read it since in the near future telepsychiatry will be the predominant treatment modality. --Robert E. Hales, M.D., MBA, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Joe P. Tupin Endowed Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis School of Medicine

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1615370854
• ISBN 13: 9781615370856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403