Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many human interactions into virtual spaces, including mental health care and therapy. Providers, care plans, and policymakers rushed to expand virtual access to therapy and other wellness treatments.
Through interviews with expert clinicians and researchers, “Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care,” explores the pandemic’s pivot to virtual care technologies — their advancements and challenges. How well are video and telehealth options replacing in-person care? Who benefitted from the expansion of online services, and who was left out of these new tech-reliant solutions? How well do mobile wellness apps protect patient privacy?
Call to Mind host Kimberly Adams interviews national leaders in telemedicine and mental health to learn how well virtual mental health services are working, and how these still-evolving technologies will shape care into the future.
“Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care,” is available for broadcast nationally. Contact your local radio station about scheduling information.
GUESTS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):
Peter Yellowlees, MD
Chief Wellness Officer & Professor of Psychiatry, UC Davis Health. Former President, American Telemedicine Association.
Stephen Schueller, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychological Science & Informatics, UC Irvine. Executive Director of One Mind PsyberGuide.
Juliette McClendon, PhD
Director of Medical Affairs, Big Health. Former Clinical Research Psychologist, VA Boston Healthcare System & National Center for PTSD.
Jay Shore, MD, MPH
Professor of Psychiatry & Director of Telemedicine, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus. Chair, American Psychiatric Association Committee on Telepsychiatry
Heather Ladov, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, El Futuro-Durham, NC; previously at La Clínica de La Raza, Casa Del Sol-Oakland, CA
HOST
Kimberly Adams
Kimberly Adams is the host of Call to Mind’s Spotlight mental health programs. She covers mental health, politics, business and the economy for American Public Media from Washington, DC, where she also serves on the Board of Governors at the National Press Club.