Guidelines/ Standards

Australia continues to rapidly integrate telehealth as an accepted and much desired element of health care delivery, in particular within the mental health space. Recent activity by the Federal Government has signalled continued growth in this area. Notably, the House Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention has now released its final report into this critical and complex issue (the Report). In addition to the Report, the Australian Federal Government has also recently commenced a period of consultation on its Primary Health Care Plan 10 Year Plan, noting the acceleration of telehealth’s role in the usual course of health care in Australia.

Like it or not, young people use social media all the time to talk about suicide-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours, says creator of #chatsafe, Orygen’s Head of Suicide Prevention Research, Associate Professor Jo Robinson.   “It’s really challenging, because although……

November marked the launch of the first assessment framework for the rapidly growing number of e-mental health and addiction tools available and in development in Aotearoa New Zealand. Commissioned by the Ministry of Health and developed by the Health Navigator……

Our working lives can have a significant impact on our psychological well-being and the current pandemic has shone a spotlight on just how great that impact can be. Recognizing that employers have a responsibility to protect both the physical and…

To help expand the use of e-mental health services, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) have developed 4 online learning modules based on their Toolkit for E-Mental Health Implementation, in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. These…

The American Board of Telehealth has opened registration for its new self-paced, online behavioral telehealth certification program. In response to growing behavioral health needs during the pandemic, the ABT developed this curriculum to give mental health professionals the tools to…

In this plenary lecture, Professor Pierre Michel Llorca (France) offers his perspectives on digital technology use in psychiatry thus far, the potential barriers to adoption and the ways that such technology might offer value for psychiatrists and patients in the…

 18-April-2021  Articles One of the aims of eMHIC’s Special Interest Group on Ethics and Law is to produce a position statement on ethico-legal issues in eMental Health. The idea is fairly straightforward: as a hub of knowledge and practice in the…

 16-April-2021  Articles ​​​​​​​ With over 300,000 digital health apps available in the various apps stores, how is anyone supposed to know which ones can be trusted to deliver safe and effective care to support patients in their disease journey? I was…

In their blog, Dr Aislinn Bergin and Dr Joanna Lockwood from MindTech (UK) discuss how they have been working with mental health and addiction service Samaritans to involve young people in developing and producing guidelines for safe online conversations around suicide and self-harm. Face-to-face workshops for…