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.- Reviews research and applications of digital technology to mental health- Includes digital technologies for assessment, intervention, communication and education- Addresses data collection and analysis, service delivery and the therapeutic relationship- Discusses the E-related disorders that complicate digital intervention
Table of Contents
1 IntroductionSection A Digital Data Collection and Analysis2 Information technology and electronic health record to improve behavioral health services3 Big data and the goal of personalized health interventions4 Collecting data from Internet (and other platform) users for mental health research5 Ecological momentary assessment and other digital technologies for capturing daily life in mental health6 Social media big data analysis for mental health researchSection B Communication, pscyhoeducation, screening7 Telepsychiatry and video-to-home (including security issues)8 Social Media and Clinical Practice9 Websites and the validity of mental health care information10 Digital phenotyping11 The digital therapeutic relationship: Retaining humanity in the digital ageSection C Problematic use of the Internet12 Gambling disorder, gaming disorder, cybershopping, and other addictive/impulsive disorders online13 Cyberchondria, cyberhoarding, and other compulsive online disorders14 Internet-use disorders: A theoretical framework for their conceptualization and diagnosis15 Cybersex (including sex robots)16 Developmental aspects (including cyberbullying)Section D Interventions17 Internet-based psychotherapies18 Apps for mental health19 Clinical interventions for technology-based problems20 Scaling up of mental health services in the digital age: The rise of technology and its application to low- and middle-income countries21 Addiction, autonomy, and the Internet: Some ethical considerations
