Novel tele-health support system for clinical psychiatry and psychology

Abstract

Recent technological advances in the use of the Internet and video technologies has greatly impacted the provision of psychotherapy and other clinical services as well as how the training of psychotherapists may be conducted. When utilized appropriately these technologies may provide greater access to needed services to include treatment, consultation, supervision, and training. We present, as an example, the main steps to develop and achieve application resilience and antifragility at system level, for structured diagnostic and therapeutic tele-practice and tele-health support, devoted to psychiatry and psychology application mainly. We describe the rationale and method of our approach and discuss system implementation detail and result. This article presents a number of innovations that can take tele-health psychotherapy treatment, supervision, training, and research forward, toward increased effectiveness and reliability.