House calls revisited: Leveraging technology to overcome obstacles to veteran psychiatric care and improve treatment outcomes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-141

  Olden, Megan ^a   Cukor, Judith ^a   Rizzo, Albert Skip ^b   Rothbaum, Barbara ^c   Difede, Joann ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers to care; OIF OEF veterans; Telemedicine; Videoconferencing; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; DEPRESSION; FAMILY THERAPY; HOME MENTAL HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY SERVICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKILL; STIGMA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN; VIDEOCONFERENCING; ADDICTION; ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VETERANS; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 78149255874     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05756.x     Document Type: Article

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