A promising future for tele-mental health in Oman: A qualitative exploration of clients and therapists' experiences.

Tamadhir Al-MahrouqiKamila Al-AlawiMohammed Al-AlawiNaser Al BalushiAbdullah Al GhailaniHilal Al SabtiHamed Al Sinawi

Published in: SAGE open medicine (2022)

Clients and therapists report that tele-mental health offers new opportunities to improve the quality of mental healthcare services in Oman, and that the challenges could be resolved by establishing governmental tele-mental health services along with developing tele-mental health guidelines and implementing local postgraduate clinical psychology programs in universities in Oman.

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