Meeting the Continuing Education Needs of Rural Mental Health Providers

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 852-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geri Adler ◽  
Lonique R. Pritchett ◽  
Michael R. Kauth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Rural Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Education Needs

Challenges for Rural Mental Health Providers and Patients Survey

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Johansson ◽  
Joe Blankenau ◽  
Sonja Franziska Tutsch ◽  
Grant Brueggemann ◽  
Ciera Afrank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Rural Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers

Multidimensional telecare strategies for rural residents with brain injury

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 146-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H Schopp ◽  
Brick R Johnstone ◽  
Octave C Merveille
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Rural Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Provider ◽  
Mental Health Training ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Adjustment Issues

Rural residents with brain injury have difficulty in accessing care from qualified psychologists for consequent cognitive, emotional and behavioural symptoms. We examined high-quality videoconferencing to enhance care for persons with brain injury in three areas: cognitive assessment, psychotherapy and rural mental health training. The assessment study evaluated 52 outpatients seen for diagnostic visits over videoconferencing, and compared their experiences with those of 52 age- and diagnosis-matched controls seen in person. Persons seen via telemedicine were more likely than controls to want to repeat their experience and more satisfied than were the neuropsychologists who examined them. In the psychotherapy study, neurorehabilitation patients were seen via videoconferencing for therapy related to brain injury or stroke. Persons receiving psychotherapy were less likely than persons receiving assessment services to want to repeat their experience. In the training study, 39 rural mental health providers were trained via videoconferencing, and trainees demonstrated significant improvement on tests of knowledge about brain injury. Trainees formed a network of mental health provider referrals for persons with brain injury in a wide geographic area. Given adequate training and ongoing support, rural clinicians can treat many brain-injury adjustment issues locally, reserving specialist consultation for emergency or complex problems.

Development of a Scale to Assess Mental Health Providers' Mindfulness in Session

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Calderon ◽  
Paul E. Hagan ◽  
Jennifer A. Munch ◽  
Crystal Rofkahr ◽  
Sinead Unsworth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers

Addressing COVID-19 Worry and Social Isolation in Home-Based Primary Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Elizabeth Weiskittle ◽  
Michelle Mlinac ◽  
LICSW Nicole Downing
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Home Based Primary Care ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Socially Isolated

Social distancing measures following the outbreak of COVID-19 have led to a rapid shift to virtual and telephone care. Social workers and mental health providers in VA home-based primary care (HBPC) teams face challenges providing psychosocial support to their homebound, medically complex, socially isolated patient population who are high risk for poor health outcomes related to COVID-19. We developed and disseminated an 8-week telephone or virtual group intervention for front-line HBPC social workers and mental health providers to use with socially isolated, medically complex older adults. The intervention draws on skills from evidence-based psychotherapies for older adults including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Problem-Solving Therapy. The manual was disseminated to VA HBPC clinicians and geriatrics providers across the United States in March 2020 for expeditious implementation. Eighteen HBPC teams and three VA Primary Care teams reported immediate delivery of a local virtual or telephone group using the manual. In this paper we describe the manual’s development and clinical recommendations for its application across geriatric care settings. Future evaluation will identify ways to meet longer-term social isolation and evolving mental health needs for this patient population as the pandemic continues.

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