News Wise: Pandemic Drives Use of Telehealth for Mental Health Care

A recent Health Affairs study found that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely permanently increased the delivery of mental health counseling through telehealth. The study suggests that telehealth services for mental health counseling expanded significantly and is likely to stay. Future applications of tele-mental health should really be focused on understanding the population, context and disease conditions most conducive to this method. Researchers concluded that there needs to be future research to understand how telehealth modalities can best improve equitable access to mental health care in the face of increased overall demand.

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