An Internet Tool to Normalize Grief

Dominick, Sally A.; Irvine, A. Blair; Beauchamp, Natasha; Seeley, John R.; Nolen–Hoeksema, Susan; Doka, Kenneth J.; Bonanno, George A.

doi:10.2190/om.60.1.d

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“…eHealth services have been developed for the treatment of a variety of mental health problems [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] as well as for the purposes of mental health promotion and education [21][22][23]. One of the first eHealth applications applied in mental health care was OC-Check, which was developed in 1987 to assist OCD patients in larger reduction of OCD symptoms by reminding instructions and tracking intensity of the obsessions [10].…”

Section: Ehealth In Mental Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

The Feasibility of eHealth in Mental Health Care

Basnet¹

2014

J Addict Res Ther

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Currently, eHealth is widely used in mental health care. Most eHealth services have been developed for mental health care due to its distinctive features such as privacy, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and costefficiency.This review summarizes existing literature on the feasibility of eHealth in mental health care and discusses its pros and cons as a service delivery tool. To conduct a systematic literature search, over 11000 articles were retrieved from PubMed and Medline.The keywords used in eHealth studies are diverse: according to the two databases, eHealth and mHealth are the most common ones. To date, a variety of eHealth applications have been developed for obsessive-compulsive disorders,phobias and other common mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Both short and long-term positive outcomes have been reported when using these applications. eHealth has potential to overcome the fear of shame, guilt, and stigma, which are commonconcerns of mental health patients. However, licensing, ethical standards and guidelines for eHealth applications in mental health care is urgently needed as currently the rapid proliferation and commercialization of unproven electronic materials reduce the liability of eHealth services.

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Section: Ehealth In Mental Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

The Feasibility of eHealth in Mental Health Care

Basnet¹

2014

J Addict Res Ther

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“…A CBT treatment using web and e-mail exercises related to exposure, cognitive restructuring, and integration found that individuals with complicated grief responded better than those assigned to a waiting control group, with a significantly larger reduction in grief and anxiety symptoms that was maintained almost a year and a half later [42][43][44]. Another internet study sought to examine the efficacy of online exercises intended to educate and support uncomplicated grievers [46]. A randomized controlled internet study examined the effects of written disclosure on prolonged grief [45].…”

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Recent trends in the treatment of prolonged grief

Mancini

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Bonanno

2012

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Prolonged grief, a pattern of persistent and elevated distress following a loss, is increasingly recognized as an independent form of psychopathology that is responsive to treatment. Therapies that employ cognitive-behavioral techniques are efficacious in ameliorating the symptoms of prolonged grief and should be more widely used. However, grief therapy should not be deployed as a blanket intervention for all grievers. Antidepressant medication may serve a useful adjunctive role in grief therapy completion and in reducing bereavement-related depression.

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“…Technology helps us tell life stories in the face of fatal illness, and draws us closer to distant friends and family [24]. It guides hospital clinicians in drawing out advance directives [27], and enables therapists to counsel the bereaved through the Internet [26]. Sites like My Wonderful Life [3] can even provide preemptive options for planning your own funeral.…”

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Matters of life and death

Massimi

Odom

Banks

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Examining developmental periods of the human lifespan has been a useful tradition for focusing HCI research (e.g., technologies for children or the elderly). In this paper, we identify the end of life as another period of the human lifespan that merits consideration by technology designers and researchers. This paper maps out current and future research in HCI at the end of life by first describing how this area raises questions concerning materiality and artifacts, social identities, temporality and methodologies. Having provided a description of the richness of this area, we then frame it against HCI traditions and practices in an orientation we term the lifespan-oriented approach. This paper maps early efforts in end of life research, structures and suggests areas for continued work, and situates the end of life among existing areas of HCI research.

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An Internet Tool to Normalize Grief

Cited by 34 publications

References 24 publications

The Feasibility of eHealth in Mental Health Care

The Feasibility of eHealth in Mental Health Care

Recent trends in the treatment of prolonged grief

Matters of life and death

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