title: Using Synchronous Videoconferencing to Deliver Family-Based Mental Healthcare.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Leading telemental healthcare programs are increasingly harnessing new technologies in innovative ways to broaden the reach of supported care for children and adolescents. Technology-based delivery methods drawing on synchronous videoteleconferencing can transcend geographic barriers to quality care and remotely provide real-time services to affected families, regardless of their proximity to an expert mental health facility.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present review considers critical issues specific to family-based telemental healthcare, including: 1) Navigating varying levels of technological literacy across generations of participants; 2) deciding which family members to include in family-based telemental healthcare; 3) ensuring the safety of participants in family-based telemental healthcare; 4) optimizing therapeutic alliance and engagement in family-based telemental healthcare; 5) navigating logistical concerns in the conducting of sessions; and 6) ensuring privacy in family-based telemental healthcare.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We discuss illustrations of recent child telemental healthcare advances that have focused explicitly on family-based treatment approaches, including Internet-delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Internet-delivered family-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for early-onset OCD.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude with a consideration of future directions for the field of family-based telemental healthcare.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Kathleen I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Crum
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Department of Psychology, Florida International University , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Jonathan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Comer
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D017216:Telemedicine; D049269:Videoconferencing