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05/25/2018

APA and ATA issue guide for mental health providers

The APA and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) this week released “Best Practices in Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health,” a guide for mental health providers who want to begin using interactive videoconferencing to offer services to their patients.

The guide was written by a group of members from APA’s Committee on Telepsychiatry and the ATA’s Telemental Health Specialist Interest Group. The document is a consolidated update of previously published APA and ATA resources in telemental health and provides an overview of the use of clinical videoconferencing as a treatment medium.

This guide is the latest telepsychiatry resource to join APA’s ever-expanding Telepsychiatry Toolkit. The guide broadly considers three essential components of videoconferencing-based telemental health practice:

It should be noted that the guide is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the do’s and don’ts of telemental health; it is to be used as a practical starting point when setting up and using clinical videoconferencing in a practice.

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