Geriatric psychiatrist and former associate professor of psychiatry at the VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Sridhar Yaratha has been a practicing psychiatrist for over a decade. Dr. Sridhar Yaratha has earned many awards and honors in Virginia, a state where psychiatrists are sorely lacking while mental health trends continue to decline.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, over a million Virginia residents experience some form of mental illness and around 300,000 of those are serious illnesses. The fewer than one thousand psychiatrists licensed in Virginia can’t hope to address all the state’s mental health needs. Telepsychiatry has come up frequently as a potential way to help Virginians get the mental health counseling they need. Direct to consumer telepsychiatry allows professionals to deliver psychiatric and other mental health services to people in their own homes. This clinically effective way of providing health care reduces commuting stress and makes it easier to fit sessions into people’s schedules. At the very least, it may be a good transitional tool until the number of professionals in the field can catch up with the growing demand.
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AuthorSince 2006, Dr. Sridhar Yaratha has worked for Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, as a forensic psychiatrist and attending physician for the men’s long-term forensic unit. Archives
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