COVID-19 restrictions have necessitated child/youth mental health providers to shift towards virtually delivering services to patients’ homes rather than hospitals and community mental health clinics. There is scant guidance available for clinicians on how to address unique considerations for the virtual mental healthcare of children and youth as clinicians rapidly shift their practices away from in-person care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we bridge this gap by discussing a six-pillar framework developed at Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for delivering direct to patient virtual mental healthcare to children, youth and their families. We also offer a discussion of the advantages, disadvantages, and future implications of such services.

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从大流行到进展：针对 COVID-19 实施儿童和青少年虚拟心理保健的教育框架

COVID-19 的限制要求儿童/青少年心理健康提供者转向虚拟地向患者家中提供服务，而不是向医院和社区心理健康诊所提供服务。由于临床医生在 COVID-19 大流行的背景下迅速将他们的实践从面对面的护理转变为临床医生，因此在如何解决儿童和青少年的虚拟心理保健方面的独特考虑方面，可供临床医生使用的指导很少。因此，我们通过讨论加拿大安大略省多伦多病童医院 (SickKids) 开发的六支柱框架来弥合这一差距，该框架旨在为儿童、青少年及其家人直接提供给患者的虚拟心理保健。我们还讨论了此类服务的优点、缺点和未来影响。