Telepsychiatry and Telepsychotherapy: Critical Issues Faced by Indian Patients and Psychiatrists

Telepsychiatry and telepsychotherapy are new treatment modalities that have been used more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many challenges that are faced with the use of this modality for both patients and psychiatrists alike. There are critical issues faced with regard to the deve...

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Autores principales: Sousa, Avinash De, Shrivastava, Amresh, Shah, Bhumika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7736729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0253717620960407
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description Telepsychiatry and telepsychotherapy are new treatment modalities that have been used more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many challenges that are faced with the use of this modality for both patients and psychiatrists alike. There are critical issues faced with regard to the development of rapport, managing the entire teleconsultation set up, privacy and issues related to fees, issues related to prescribing and monitoring, and issues while handling emergencies. The challenges faced are discussed and some solutions if possible are laid out.
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spelling pubmed-77367292020-12-21 Telepsychiatry and Telepsychotherapy: Critical Issues Faced by Indian Patients and Psychiatrists Sousa, Avinash De Shrivastava, Amresh Shah, Bhumika Indian J Psychol Med Viewpoints Telepsychiatry and telepsychotherapy are new treatment modalities that have been used more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many challenges that are faced with the use of this modality for both patients and psychiatrists alike. There are critical issues faced with regard to the development of rapport, managing the entire teleconsultation set up, privacy and issues related to fees, issues related to prescribing and monitoring, and issues while handling emergencies. The challenges faced are discussed and some solutions if possible are laid out. SAGE Publications 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7736729/ /pubmed/33354069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0253717620960407 Text en © 2020 Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zonal Branch https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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