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Using Synchronous Videoconferencing to Deliver Family-Based Mental Healthcare
Kathleen I Crum1, Jonathan S Comer1
1Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University , Miami, Florida.
Objectives:
Leading telemental healthcare programs are increasingly harnessing new technologies in innovative ways to broaden the reach of supported care for children and adolescents. Technology-based delivery methods drawing on synchronous videoteleconferencing can transcend geographic barriers to quality care and remotely provide real-time services to affected families, regardless of their proximity to an expert mental health facility.
Methods:
The present review considers critical issues specific to family-based telemental healthcare, including: 1) Navigating varying levels of technological literacy across generations of participants; 2) deciding which family members to include in family-based telemental healthcare; 3) ensuring the safety of participants in family-based telemental healthcare; 4) optimizing therapeutic alliance and engagement in family-based telemental healthcare; 5) navigating logistical concerns in the conducting of sessions; and 6) ensuring privacy in family-based telemental healthcare.
Results:
We discuss illustrations of recent child telemental healthcare advances that have focused explicitly on family-based treatment approaches, including Internet-delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Internet-delivered family-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for early-onset OCD.
Conclusions:
We conclude with a consideration of future directions for the field of family-based telemental healthcare.
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