ReviewPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2023
Identifying Core Competencies for Remote Delivery of Psychological Interventions: A Rapid Review.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of psychological interventions for adult survivors of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Psychotherapeutic Competencies in Blended Care Psychotherapy: Development of a Competence Framework.JMIR mental health · 2026Article
- Examination of Patient and Provider Satisfaction, Benefits, and Challenges with Psychiatric Outpatient and Hospital-Based Telehealth Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- Essential competencies for an effective physician-to-physician teleconsultation.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Competency-based training and supervision: development of the WHO-UNICEF Ensuring Quality in Psychosocial and Mental Health Care (EQUIP) initiative.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Assessment of key interviewing factors for research assistants (AKIRA): development of a novel training and evaluation competency-based tool for mental health data collection in community settings.Frontiers in education · 2025Article
- Practitioners' perspectives on preparing for and delivering remote psychological support in Nepal, Perú and the United States during COVID-19.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2023Article
- Pretraining Skills as Predictors of Competence of Nonspecialists in Delivery of Mental Health Services.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- The occupational burnout among medical staff with high workloads after the COVID-19 and its association with anxiety and depression.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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objectiveThe COVID-19 pandemic led to a rapid shift toward remote delivery of psychological interventions and transition to voice-only and video communication platforms. However, agreement is lacking on key competencies that are aligned with equitable approaches for standardized training and supervision of remote psychological intervention delivery. A rapid review was conducted to identify and describe competencies that could inform best practices of remote services delivery during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsScopus, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO were searched for literature published in English (2015-2021) on competencies for synchronous, remote psychological interventions that can be measured through observation.
resultsOf 135 articles identified, 12 met inclusion criteria. Studies targeted populations in high-income countries (11 in the United States and Canada, one in Saudi Arabia) and focused on specialist practitioners, professionals, or trainees in professional or prelicensure programs working with adult populations. Ten skill categories were identified: emergency and safety protocols for remote services, facilitating communication over remote platforms, remote consent procedures, technological literacy, practitioner-client identification for remote services, confidentiality during remote services, communication skills during remote services, engagement and interpersonal skills for remote services, establishing professional boundaries during remote services, and encouraging continuity of care during remote services.
conclusionsThese 10 skills domains can offer a foundation for refinement of discrete, individual-level competencies that can be aligned with global initiatives promoting use of observational competency assessment during training and supervision programs for psychological interventions. More research is needed on identification of and agreement on remote competencies and on their evaluation.
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