Full Description
Mental Health in a Digital World addresses mental health assessments and interventions using digital technology, including mobile phones, wearable devices and related technologies. Sections discuss mental health data collection and analysis for purposes of assessment and treatment, including the use of electronic medical records and information technologies to improve services and research, the use of digital technologies to enhance communication, psychoeducation, screening for mental disorders, the problematic use of the internet, including internet gambling and gaming, cybersex and cyberchondria, and internet interventions, ranging from online psychotherapy to mobile phone apps and virtual reality adjuncts to psychotherapy.
Contents
1 Introduction
Section A Digital Data Collection and Analysis
2 Information technology and electronic health record to improve behavioral health services
3 Big data and the goal of personalized health interventions
4 Collecting data from Internet (and other platform) users for mental health research
5 Ecological momentary assessment and other digital technologies for capturing daily life in mental health
6 Social media big data analysis for mental health research
Section B Communication, pscyhoeducation, screening
7 Telepsychiatry and video-to-home (including security issues)
8 Social Media and Clinical Practice
9 Websites and the validity of mental health care information
10 Digital phenotyping
11 The digital therapeutic relationship: Retaining humanity in the digital age
Section C Problematic use of the Internet
12 Gambling disorder, gaming disorder, cybershopping, and other addictive/impulsive disorders online
13 Cyberchondria, cyberhoarding, and other compulsive online disorders
14 Internet-use disorders: A theoretical framework for their conceptualization and diagnosis
15 Cybersex (including sex robots)
16 Developmental aspects (including cyberbullying)
Section D Interventions
17 Internet-based psychotherapies
18 Apps for mental health
19 Clinical interventions for technology-based problems
20 Scaling up of mental health services in the digital age: The rise of technology and its application to low- and middle-income countries
21 Addiction, autonomy, and the Internet: Some ethical considerations
