Over the past few months, I’ve been doing more and more rating scales with patients. When people first come in, they download and fill out an initial form which asks the usual demographic information like addresses and phone numbers but also includes a patient health questionnaire (PHQ) . The PHQ screens for somatization disorder, panic [...]
Also tagged ASRS, BPRS, HAMA, HAMD, MMSE, PHQ, skype, SPMSQ, YBOCS, YMRSIn my previous post Telepsychiatry: What’s lost?, Part one, I focused on what sensory information that was available in a face-to-face interview that wasn’t available in a videocall, and mentioned that I didn’t think that sensory information was the whole story. I think that there is a psychological reaction to telepsychiatry that relates to how [...]
Also tagged countertransference, face-to-face, technophobia, teletransference, transferenceIt seems to me that the information conveyed on a video and audio link between a patient and me has to be more than the information conveyed on a telephone call. All the information comings through on a telephone call is present on a videocall like Skype provides, and I can’t think of any way [...]
Also tagged face-to-face, skype, standard of care, webcam
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