Hello! Your Psychiatrist Will Skype You Now

Telepsychiatry is a growing trend in mental health, reports TIME, quoting Dr. Kathleen Myers, who treats a teenage age patient up close and personal despite the 75 miles between them.

As director of the telemental health service at Children's Hospital, she points to one of the benefits of a videoconference: unlike a phone call, it allows doctors to observe a patient's facial expressions and body language. "You can talk back and forth in real time — it's off by a millisecond — so you get immediate reactions.

... So far, anecdotal evidence indicates that virtual psychiatry visits work just fine for children and adolescents. Perhaps it's a sign of the times, an era in which teens feel more comfortable in front of a camera than they do face to face.

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