Abstract
Telemental health care has been widely available for several decades and encompasses the remote delivery of psychiatric and psychological services.1 Telemental health care has been found to be effective in assessing and diagnosing mental health conditions across the lifespan and ethnic groups.2 Benefits of telemental health include the engagement of friends or family and the wider professional network in consultations; savings in the time required to deliver health care;3 and the reach to populations that might not be able to access mental health services owing to lack of, or insufficient service provision or high care costs.
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