TY - JOUR
T1 - A resident-based telepsychiatry supervision pilot program in Liberia
AU - Katz, Craig L.
AU - Boffa Washington, F.
AU - Sacco, Megan
AU - Schuetz-Mueller, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Psychiatric Association. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - Worldwide, attention to mental disorders lags far behind the staggering morbidity attributed to them. In low-resource settings, the majority of people with serious mental illness go untreated, and a major reason for this treatment gap is the worldwide shortage of mental health professionals. In Liberia, this shortfall has been addressed by training and licensing nurses, midwives, and physician assistants as mental health clinicians (MHCs) via an intensive 6-month training program. This column describes a pilot program utilizing senior American psychiatry residents to provide remote posttraining supervision to the MHCs via live teleconferencing.
AB - Worldwide, attention to mental disorders lags far behind the staggering morbidity attributed to them. In low-resource settings, the majority of people with serious mental illness go untreated, and a major reason for this treatment gap is the worldwide shortage of mental health professionals. In Liberia, this shortfall has been addressed by training and licensing nurses, midwives, and physician assistants as mental health clinicians (MHCs) via an intensive 6-month training program. This column describes a pilot program utilizing senior American psychiatry residents to provide remote posttraining supervision to the MHCs via live teleconferencing.
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U2 - 10.1176/appi.ps.201800363
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.201800363
M3 - Article
C2 - 30497326
AN - SCOPUS:85063626515
SN - 1075-2730
VL - 70
SP - 243
EP - 246
JO - Psychiatric Services
JF - Psychiatric Services
IS - 3
ER -