Telemental Health？

对于离精神卫生机构不近的人来说，获得精神卫生治疗可能是个困难。正在快速发展的远程精神卫生通过使用视频和电话会议为患者提供接触心理学专科医生的机会来解决这个问题。然而，该过程在被采纳成为主流医学实践和形成循证基础支持其疗效方面面临挑战。在这本全面的教科书中，本领域的专家提供了对远程精神卫生的介绍并探索如何在开展远程医疗卫生服务时在不同的环境下构建治疗空间，如何改善对特殊人群的服务以及如何形成远程医疗卫生的循证基础和最佳实践。过去15年中，远程医疗卫生的实施似乎需求大过其显示出的疗效。本书中的详尽而又见解深刻的章节显示对于本领域，连续不断研究以及思虑周到地发展合乎伦理和尽责的实践是很重要的，文中还开始设计构建这一过程的步骤。《远程精神卫生》将成为精神卫生领域所有临床医师和研究者的重要读物。

Acquiring access to mental health treatments can be difficult for those who are not near mental health facilities. The growing field of telemental health addresses this problem by using video and telephone conferencing to provide patients with access to psychiatric professionals. However, the process faces challenges to gain adoption into mainstream medical practice and to develop an evidence base supporting its efficacy. In this comprehensive text, leading professionals in the field provide an introduction to telemental health and explore how to construct a therapeutic space in different contexts when conducting telemental health, how to improve access for special populations, and how to develop an evidence base and best practice in telemental health. In the past 15 years, implementation of telemental health has seemed to follow more from need than from demonstrated efficacy. The thorough and insightful chapters within this book show the importance of continued research and thoughtful development of ethical and responsible practice that is needed in the field and begin to lay out steps in constructing this process. Telemental Health will be an essential book for all clinical practitioners and researchers in mental health fields.