Academic Press Mental Health in a Digital World (Global Mental Health in Practice)

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. Review A guide to recent advances and the use of digital technologies in assessing and intervening in mental health issues From the Back Cover This volume addresses mental health assessment and intervention using digital technology, including mobile phones, wearable devices, and related technologies. The volume is divided into 4 sections. The first section discusses 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. It includes ecological momentary assessment, digital phenotyping, social media and tracking (MISST), as well as big data analysis. The second section discusses using digital technologies to enhance communication, psychoeducation, and screening for mental disorders.  It includes telepsychiatry, internet and mobile phone delivered health content, as well as the digital therapeutic relationship. The third section addresses problematic use of the internet, including internet gambling and gaming, cybersex and cyberchondria. The fourth section addresses internet interventions. This ranges from online psychotherapy to mobile phone apps and virtual reality adjuncts to psychotherapy. About the Author Dan J. Stein is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, and Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders. Dan’s training includes doctoral degrees in clinical neuroscience and in philosophy, and a post-doctoral fellowship in psychopharmacology. He is a clinician-scientist whose work has long focused on anxiety and related disorders. He has also mentored a range of other research, with publications spanning basic neuroscience, through clinical research, and on to public mental health. His research has had considerable influence (as evidenced by his h-index, perhaps the highest of any African scholar), as has his mentorship (as evidenced by the career success of his postgraduate students and fellows). Awards for his work include the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s Max Hamilton Award for his contributions to psychopharmacology, and its Ethics in Psychopharmacology Award. Naomi Fineberg is Professor of Psychiatry at University of Hertfordshire and has a specific interest in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, as well as in the use of computer administered batteries to investigate compulsivity and impulsivity. Samuel Chamberlain is a Welcome Trust Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Cambridge University. He has a particular interest in impulsivity, and its manifestations in problematic internet use