Academic Press, 2022. — 1555 p. — (Global Mental Health in Practice Series). — ISBN 9780128222027.
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.
Digital Data Collection and AnalysisInformation technology and electronic health record to improve behavioral health services
Big data and the goal of personalized health interventions
Collecting data from Internet (and other platform) users for mental health research
Ecological momentary assessment and other digital technologies for capturing daily life in mental health
Social media big data analysis for mental health research
Communication, psychoeducation, screeningTelepsychiatry and video-to-home (including security issues)
Social Media and Clinical Practice
Websites and the validity of mental health care information
Digital phenotyping
The digital therapeutic relationship: Retaining humanity in the digital age
Problematic use of the InternetGambling disorder, gaming disorder, cybershopping, and other addictive/impulsive disorders online
Cyberchondria, cyberhoarding, and other compulsive online disorders
Internet-use disorders: A theoretical framework for their conceptualization and diagnosis
Cybersex (including sex robots)
Developmental aspects (including cyberbullying)
InterventionsInternet-based psychotherapies
Apps for mental health
Clinical interventions for technology-based problems
Scaling up of mental health services in the digital age: The rise of technology and its application to low- and middle-income countries
Addiction, autonomy, and the Internet: Some ethical considerations