Resources
TeleHealth
What is Telehealth?
(Also referred to as Telemedicine, Teletherapy or Telepsychiatry)
Telehealth is a form of video conferencing allowing psychiatrists and therapists to provide services to patients outside of the office, allowing the opportunity for consultation with family members, teachers and other providers involved in the patient’s care.
Telehealth appointments with a DMV Psych provider
When you make a telehealth appointment with a DMV Psych provider, you can rest easy knowing that your session is secure, effective and covered. Connect with the same advanced nurse practitioners who work in our local offices. Schedule your appointment today.
Most insurance policies that cover mental and behavioral health services provide coverage for telehealth appointments as well. Our clinicians work with most major insurance providers to ensure you can access the care you need.
Telehealth services are both secure and effective for consistent appointments.
Telepsychiatry Require
For your appointment, you will need to have access to a private place and a computer/tablet/smart phone with a camera and high speed internet. DMV Psychiatric Wellness will provide you with access to a secure HIPAA compliant videoconferencing software free of charge. All you have to do is be on your device and logged on at the time of your appointment. Is Telepsychiatry Secure? DMV Psychiatric Wellness ensures the interaction between the patient and psychiatrist is completely secure and HIPAA compliant. The teleconferencing software encrypts all forms of data, including video and audio.
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Online Telepsychiatry Appointments Available
Online telepsychiatry is a secure and effective way to connect with therapists. In these sessions, patients talk with their therapists through live video. Patients can log on to the calls from anywhere with a secure internet connection, and we recommend having plenty of privacy as well.
Adult Psychiatry
What is Psychiatry?
Psychiatry is a field of medicine in which providers use medication to treat mental and behavioral health disorders when needed. Psychiatric care providers are licensed medical professionals. Patients either see a medical doctor, an advanced nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant.
Psychiatric Treatment:
At DMV Psychiatric Wellness, we empower patients to make their own decisions about their health. Our providers will not shame you into taking medication that you don’t want to take. Instead, they inform you about all of your care options, including benefits and risks. Then you make the decisions. If you and your provider determine that medication should be part of your treatment plan, your provider will walk through your medication options with you. Depending on your needs, the provider may prescribe medications such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, or mood stabilizers.
At DMV Psychiatric Wellness, we recommend ongoing medication management to ensure that medications work well for our patients. It’s important to attend these follow-up appointments or reschedule them as needed. During medication management appointments, your provider will ask about your symptoms, any side effects, and how you feel about your medication.If you have serious or severe side effects, you can contact your provider before your follow-up appointment. They will give you directions on how to wean yourself off the medication if needed. If you have a life-threatening reaction to the medication, seek emergency medical attention.
Conditions That Can be Treated Through Psychiatry
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Psychotic Disorders
Eating Disorders
Personality Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Child & Teen Psychiatry
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What is Child and Teen Psychiatry?
Child and adolescent psychiatry specializes in the diagnosis and the treatment of disorders of thinking, feeling and/or behavior affecting children, adolescents, and their families. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers families the advantages of a medical education, the medical traditions of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Treatment
Child and adolescent psychiatry can help children and their families to manage a broad range of conditions, including:
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Depression
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Anxiety disorders
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Schizophrenia
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Bipolar disorder
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Trauma or stress-related disorders
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ADHD
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Online Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
An online psychiatry session is just the same as a visit to a doctor, it just happens via a video screen on a phone or computer. Parents, teens and family practitioners report high satisfaction with remote consults and appreciate their convenience and privacy.
The psychiatrist will ask you for some basic information and then they will ask you about your current psychological or behavioral symptoms, your medical and family history, and talk about factors that may be causing or making those symptoms worse. Using all of the information that they gather from you, the psychiatrist will come up with a detailed evaluation followed by a treatment plan that might include therapy or medications.
Connecting
Connect your community circles or students with our community referral initiative that partners as a community outreach for schools, churches, and community organizations, to facilitate mental health services, medication management, and more. Your referrals mean the world to us. We work hard to earn each referral with great service and appreciation for your business every day
The DMV Psychiatric Wellness Community Referral Initiative serves life-span age groups (youth through the elderly) in an effort to simultaneously build community connections while delivering much needed mental health services.
Community Referrals is currently available in the Washington DC, Central and Southern Maryland region. To discuss options in other areas, contact us.
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Support community churches in efforts to bridge the gap
Support mental health resources for the LGBTQ+ community
Strengthening mental health support for BIPOC communities
If you are a participant in DC, Central & Southern Maryland, contact us today to learn more about community referrals and our connected.