Pushing telepsychiatry along

Telepsychiatry professionals are working to make remote psychiatric care as accessible as other specialties, such as dermatology and stroke care.

Psychiatric Times, an online community for mental health professionals, is presenting special coverage highlighting telepsychiatry and digital technology.

The online publication offers the following new material on its website:

• New Directions in Psychiatry examines the current challenges and significant limitations of the present approach to psychiatric therapy.
• In First Week in the Trenches, a clinician reports that telepsychiatry can be a viable, valuable and timely addition to the psychiatric profession, despite minor mishaps in the first week.
• Telepsychiatry Basics: Setup, Sessions, and Pros and Cons provides a brief description of the setup from a new telepsychiatrist's home office.
• Rural Telepsychiatry: The Future Is Bright shares successful interventions and other considerations when developing a rural telepsychiatry service.

To locate this material, go to www.psychiatrictimes.com and search under the topic “telepsychiatry.”