Telemental Health Care: An Effective Alternative to Conventional Mental Care & Future Directions to Improve the Accessibility and Quality of Children's Mental Health Services

About the Course:

This course contains two separate articles. The first, “Telemental Health Care: An Effective Alternative to Conventional Mental Care,” is a systematic review, using high quality research articles on the applications, technologies, advantages and challenges associated with telemental health care published since year 2000. The second, “Future Directions in the Use of Telemental Health to Improve the Accessibility and Quality of Children’s Mental Health Services,” provides a brief overview of progress in providing telemental health services to children and suggests future research needed to support the advance of telemental health in the delivery of children’s mental health services.

Publication Date:

2017

Authors

Mostafa Langarizaden; Mohsen S. Tabatabaei; Kamran Tavakol; Majid Naghipour; Alireza Rostami; Fatemeh Moghbeli; Jonathan S. Comer, PhD ; Kathleen Myers, MD, MPH, MS

About the Authors:

Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran

Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, International Campus (IUMS-IC), Iran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Ira

School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore. Baltimore, MD, USA

Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, International Campus (IUMS-IC), Iran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Arak University of Medical sciences. Arak, Iran

Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, International Campus (IUMS-IC), Iran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran

Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Seattle Children’s Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and addiction counselors who seek knowledge about Telemental Health Care. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Identify and explain the reasons cited in this article for the recent growth of telemental health care.

2. Describe the impact of telemental health care on traditional health service delivery systems.

3. State the major concerns and potential benefits associated with telemental health care.

4. Articulate and explain the current status of telemental health services to children.

5. Identify areas of future research needed to establish an empirical foundation for telemental health concerning the delivery of children’s mental health services.

6. Describe barriers to the continued evolution of children’s telemental health provision.