Mental Health Specialist Video Consultations for Primary Care Patients

"The consultations will be based on a psychodynamic understanding with a solution-oriented stance and will follow a manual:~Session 1: Getting familiar with the telemental health setting, building a working alliance and deepening diagnostics.~Session 2: Clarification of the task/objective, focus building, motivational interviewing if necessary.~Session 3-4: Focused brief interventions e.g. psychoeducation, promotion of social resources, activation of health-promoting lifestyles (sleep hygiene, eating diary, relaxation etc.), work on personal problems and, if necessary, initiation of further specialised treatment.~Session 5: Ending the intervention, stabilisation, subsequent treatment plan and communicating a case summary to the general practitioner"