ERIC Number: EJ754672
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Apr
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Telepsychiatry for Treating Rural American Indian Youth
Savin, Daniel; Garry, Mark T.; Zuccaro, Paula; Novins, Douglas
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v45 n4 p484 Apr 2006
Of all of the medical specialties, child and adolescent psychiatry has the most severe shortage of practitioners. This shortage is even more pronounced in economically disadvantaged and rural areas. The American Indian population is younger, more economically disadvantaged, and more rural than the general U.S. population (United States Census Bureau, 2000). Researchers and many American Indians believe that their traumatic history and current marginalization has made them more likely to experience mental health problems such as alcoholism and posttraumatic stress disorder. Telepsychiatry, the use of real-time, interactive videoconferencing to deliver psychiatric services, is an exciting opportunity to ensure that American Indians are not left out of the improvement of mental health services. The use of telepsychiatry can assist in providing child and adolescent psychiatric services to patients in remote and underserved areas while sparing patients and providers long, expensive, and life-disrupting journeys. Furthermore, this paper presents an example of telepsychiatry being used to treat American Indian children.
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Access to Health Care, American Indians, Rural Areas, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Computer Mediated Communication, Alcohol Abuse, Children
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