Considerations for Conducting Telemental Health with Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT

Innovative technologies are increasingly used in order to address gaps in access to child behavioral health care. Telemental health is one technological modality in which child behavioral services can be practiced successfully across psychiatry, psychology, and developmental medicine. The authors discuss relevant issues related to delivering telemental health, including why this modality is necessary for delivery, what models and evidence for telemental health exist, when it should be considered across legal/regulatory and ethical considerations, where telemental health services are delivered, who is involved in delivery, and how best telemental health practices may be implemented with diverse youth.