Doan Bridget T, Yang Yue Bo, Romanchych Erin, Grewal Seena, Monga Suneeta, Pignatiello Tony, Bryden Pier, Kulkarni Chetana
Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON Canada.
MD Undergraduate Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada.
J Contemp Psychother. 2021;51(1):1-7. doi: 10.1007/s10879-020-09478-0. Epub 2020 Oct 23.
COVID-19 restrictions have necessitated child/youth mental health providers to shift towards virtually delivering services to patients' homes rather than hospitals and community mental health clinics. There is scant guidance available for clinicians on how to address unique considerations for the virtual mental healthcare of children and youth as clinicians rapidly shift their practices away from in-person care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we bridge this gap by discussing a six-pillar framework developed at Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for delivering direct to patient virtual mental healthcare to children, youth and their families. We also offer a discussion of the advantages, disadvantages, and future implications of such services.
新冠疫情防控措施迫使儿童/青少年心理健康服务提供者转向为患者家庭提供虚拟服务，而非在医院和社区心理健康诊所提供服务。在新冠疫情背景下，临床医生迅速将诊疗方式从面对面诊疗转向虚拟诊疗，然而，针对如何应对儿童和青少年虚拟心理医疗的独特考量，可供临床医生参考的指导却很少。因此，我们通过讨论加拿大安大略省多伦多市病童医院（SickKids）制定的一个六支柱框架来填补这一空白，该框架用于为儿童、青少年及其家庭提供直接的虚拟心理医疗服务。我们还讨论了此类服务的优缺点及未来影响。
