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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 comorbidity approaches (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. |