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Telemedicine in Mental Health: Telemental Health
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The National Capacity Building (NCB) Project at the Center for Victims of Torture is pleased to announce a two-part on-demand learning experience on using telehealth to provide mental health services for survivor of torture clients. This is an opportunity to learn about implementing telemental health from one of the foremost experts in the US on providing telemental health services and then connect with your colleagues to delve more deeply into the nuanced questions and dilemmas specific to delivery of services torture survivors via telemental health.  

Presentation:
We start with a presentation by Eugene Augusterfer on the basics of providing mental health services through telehealth followed by an in-depth interview where Mr. Augusterfer answers questions on implementing telemental health in SOT programs. This presentation will help you understand what telemental health is; what technology is needed; what providers need to know to deliver telemental health effectively; and includes protocols for both providers and clients that will help assure success. You can access the presentation here

Online Forum: 
Building on the video presentation and interview in Telemedicine in Mental Health (which we encourage you to view), NCB is providing an opportunity for clinicians to address telehealth questions specific to torture survivors, e.g., negotiating privacy; working with interpreters, dealing with triggering events; dysregulation; domestic violence; perceived fear and anxiety of remote communications/phone/computer being tapped. In this forum clinicians will be able to: 
  • share observations and adapted telehealth protocols 
  • ask each other questions
  • contribute to the expertise we are all developing in using this new technology to serve survivors of torture
This  peer-led conversation, conducted via an online forum and technical exchange, will be a forum for colleague informational exchange and will not have a designated moderator. NCB staff will assist in facilitating and monitoring the conversation.  The online forum will be open from July 6th to September 30. You can access the online forum here. 
The Recorded Presentation is Available Here
On-line Forum Available Here
About the Presenter
Eugene F. Augusterfer is Director of Telemedicine at The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and is a core faculty member of HPRT’s Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Program.  At HPRT, he has helped develop HPRT’s innovative model that addresses the need for sustainable care in post-disaster areas through the use of telemedicine, including mobile technology or mHealth. He is actively involved in the broader field of telemedicine as the Chair Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association Mental Health Group.
Yours,
The NCB Team
Advancing the science of torture survivor rehabilitation by promoting integrated, sustainable care for survivors across the United States.
CVT National Capacity Building Project received $400,000 through competitive funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Grant #90ZT0187. The contents of these materials are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
 
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