Telemedical technologies in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care during the COVID-19 pandemic – challenges and perspectives
Abstract
The article presents a literature review concerning the use of telemedicine technologies in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care worldwide and in Russia. The experience of the transition of practitioners to the use of telepsychiatric technologies in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic is emphasized. The need for continuation of the outpatient psychiatric care even in the conditions of the pandemic and the social restrictions connected with it are substantiated. Ways of solving the problems in psychiatric care arisen in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic are outlined. Potential and actual problems related to a possible more active use of telemedicine technologies in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care are highlighted. The perspectives of the development of telepsychiatric care in Russia are discussed.
About the Authors
E. M. Chumakov
Psychiatric Hospital №1 named after P.P. Kaschenko; Saint-Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Egor Maksimovich Chumakov – PhD Med. Sci.
Str. Menkovskaya, 10, p. Nikolskoye, Leningrad region, 188357
21st line, 8, let. A, St. Petersburg, 199034
S. M. Babin
Psychiatric Hospital №1 named after P.P. Kaschenko; Saint-Petersburg State University; North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey Michailovich Babin – Dr. Med. Sci. Prof.
Kirochnaya Str., 41, St. Petersburg, 191015
21st line, 8, let. A, St. Petersburg, 199034
Str. Menkovskaya, 10, p. Nikolskoye, Leningrad region, 188357
L. A. Azarova
Psychiatric Hospital №1 named after P.P. Kaschenko
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Larisa Albertovna Azarova
Str. Menkovskaya, 10, p. Nikolskoye, Leningrad region, 188357
N. N. Petrova
Saint-Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Natallia Nikolaevna Petrova – Dr. Med. Sci. Prof.
21st line, 8, let. A, St. Petersburg, 199034
O. V. Limankin
Psychiatric Hospital №1 named after P.P. Kaschenko; North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oleg Vasilievich Limankin – Dr. Med. Sci. Prof.; Saint-Petersburg Institute of Postgraduate Improvement of Physicians-experts of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection
Str. Menkovskaya, 10, p. Nikolskoye, Leningrad region, 188357
Kirochnaya Str., 41, St. Petersburg, 191015
Bolshoy Sampsoniyevsky Ave., 11/12, St. Petersburg, 194044
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Chumakov E.M., Babin S.M., Azarova L.A., Petrova N.N., Limankin O.V. Telemedical technologies in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care during the COVID-19 pandemic – challenges and perspectives. Bulletin of psychotherapy. 2021;1(78):20-35. (In Russ.)
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