{"id":1025,"date":"2021-07-16T01:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpnow.net\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2021-07-19T01:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:55:51","slug":"mental-health-services-via-telehealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpnow.net\/ua\/2021\/07\/16\/mental-health-services-via-telehealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Services via telehealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Psychologists & Therapists: Build a connection which endures.<\/h2>

Mental Health support can provide important insight into the challenges we face in our lives. The work of psychologists and mental health professionals is as varied as the clients they support. They may provide assessment and therapy to clients, help facilitate organisational or social change, conduct psychological research, or administer psychological tests to individuals or groups.<\/p>

Just as the work is varied, so are the ways in which clients may interact with, and access mental health professionals. Telehealth services are now widely available and can be accessed from anywhere, providing an important link to mental health support which can endure across long distances or through lockdowns and restrictions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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From disruption to transformation.<\/h2>


The CoViD-19 Pandemic dramatically accelerated the uptake of Telehealth technology in Australia. A recently published report from the CSIRO<\/a> found that in January 2020 just 0.3% of all mental health attendances were conducted over telehealth. A few short months later, in April 2020, more than 53% of all mental health attendance were conducted via telehealth.<\/p>

As we move towards new ways of living with differing restrictions due to the ongoing threat of the virus, it’s clear that telehealth is here to stay. Around the country, clients are coming to expect that their trusted mental health services will be accessible online if and when required.<\/p>

Telehealth is proving to be particularly useful when there is an existing relationship with a healthcare provider, and that trusted relationship can easily move online, or when the patient cannot normally access the specialist support they need in their location (e.g. remote and regional patients). <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Choose a technology which meets your standards<\/h2>


Mental Health professionals need to choose a technology which aligns with their standards. The Australian Psychological Society has published the following recommendations<\/a>:<\/p>

The choice of videoconferencing technology should be guided by the following principles:<\/span><\/em><\/p>