Behavioral Health Care of Isolated Military Personnel by Videoconference

The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research

“…Video teleconferences have been used to provide behavioral health care to military personnel in isolated, rural areas where behavioral health care providers are not readily available, including using video teleconference technology to support military personnel on deployments or during prolonged exercises (Hill et al, 2004). Indeed, video teleconference procedures have been shown to be effective in delivering CPT (Morland et al, 2014) to combat veterans with PTSD.…”

Current directions in videoconferencing tele-mental health research.

“…Tele‐mental health service or program descriptions have been published from around the world, although such reports from underdeveloped nations are rare. These service or program descriptions include reports in the areas of child and adolescent mental health service delivery (Browne, Reilly, & Bradley, 2006; Nelson, Barnard, & Cain, 2003, 2006; Ryan, Stathis, Smith, Best, & Wootton, 2005; Savin, Garry, Zuccaro, & Novins, 2006; Staller, 2006); family therapy (Bischoff, Hollist, Smith, & Flack, 2004; Hill et al., 2004; Keilman, 2005; Kuulasmaa et al., 2004); mental health services for the deaf (Austen & McGrath, 2006b; Lopez et al, 2004); substance use (Frueh, Henderson, & Myrick, 2005); cognitive‐behavior therapy (CBT) for mood and anxiety disorders (Frueh, Monnier, Grubaugh, et al, 2007; Griffiths, Blignault, & Yellowlees, 2006; Himle et al., 2006); cancer patients with adjustment disorder (Cluver, Schuyler, Frueh, Brescia, & Arana, 2005; Shepherd et al, 2006); mental health practitioner training and supervision (Ekblad et al., 2004; Fahey, Day, & Gelber, 2003; Heckner & Giard, 2005; Hilty, Alverson, et al., 2006; Meyer et al, 2005; Walter, Rosenquist, & Bawtinhimer, 2004); psychiatric consultation‐liaison services (Hilty, Yellowlees, Cobb, et al., 2006; Hockey, Yellowlees, & Murphy, 2004); deployed military personnel (Grady & Melcer, 2005; Hill et al., 2004; Neufeld, Yellowlees, Hilty, Cobb, & Bourgeois, 2007); and diagnosis/assessment (Hildebrand, Chow, Williams, Nelson, & Wass, 2004; Kobak, 2004; Shore, Hilty, & Yellowlees, 2007).…”