Technology, Health, and Contemporary Practice: How Does e-Mental Health Fit It and What Does It Offer?

Hilty, Donald M.; Mucic, Davor

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20852-7_1

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“…Youthfriendly services incorporating new technologies (Ambresin, Bennett, Patton, Sanci, & Sawyer, 2013;Gibson, Cartwright, Kerrisk, Campbell, & Seymour, 2016) such as apps (Burns et al, 2016), show promise in combatting these issues. Despite slow uptake of apps into clinical settings (Blanchard, Herrman, Frere, & Burns, 2012;Schueller et al, 2016), Australia in particular is considered to be progressive with the integration of technology in mental health support services, having utilised various technologies in the past 40 years, including: telephones for consultations, crisis management, and the internet for video assessments and online cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT; Hilty & Mucic, 2016); for example, Curtin University's 'OCD? Not Me!'…”

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Psychologists’ motivations for integrating apps into therapy with secondary school-aged young people

Gindidis

Stewart

Roodenburg

2019

J. Psychol. Couns. Sch.

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Psychologists play an important role in the provision of mental health support to young people. Some psychologists are incorporating apps into therapy with young people; however, little is understood about why such incorporation is taking place. Ten semi-structured qualitative interviews exploring why psychologists augment therapy by recommending or using apps alongside therapy were undertaken. Findings suggest that psychologists were prompted to update their therapeutic approach in response to client-initiated discussion of apps. Personal use of apps, higher engagement in therapy, increased access to therapeutic strategies between sessions, and a reduction of the stigma associated with externalising therapeutic strategies were also facilitating factors. Implications for practice such as apps currently complementing structured therapy over unstructured talk therapy, and further research are explored.

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Psychologists’ motivations for integrating apps into therapy with secondary school-aged young people

Gindidis

Stewart

Roodenburg

2019

J. Psychol. Couns. Sch.

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“…Importantly, this sense of connection didn't only arise from the explicitly "social" affordances in eRecovery but were also identified as arising from the prompts provided by the daily check-in, and appointment and medication reminders: It is well established that social media can generate a sense of social connectedness independent of direct social interactions arising from family, employment, or recreational activity. Yet, in offering this, therapeutic apps may raise privacy and confidentiality-related concerns, especially for people with mental health conditions (Hilty & Mucic, 2016) Conversely, there are factors that will contribute to counterproductive engagement (Smith et al, 2017) leading to eventually abandoning the software or being barred from use. Such counterproductive engagement can take the form of clients repurposing the affordances of forensic technologies to pursue harmful ends, such as abusing another client.…”

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Understanding Engagement With Forensic Smartphone Apps: The Service Design Engagement Model

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Wood

Johns

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Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Justice services have begun to integrate the use of mobile applications into treatment, support, and rehabilitative programs for forensic clients. One such application that been adopted to support forensic clients is “eRecovery”: a smartphone application that provides clients recovering from a substance addiction with support for managing relapse. In this article, we report on evaluation findings from a trial of eRecovery in an Australian Community Justice Centre, and reflect on several issues relating to fostering and sustaining client engagement with similar applications within forensic and justice settings. We propose the Service Design Engagement Model to organize, visualize, and describe the stages and factors important to adoption, appropriation, and on-going routine use of the software by forensic clients. The model recognizes the role of contextual and environmental factors in supporting users through the early stages of engagement, and the importance of user agency in longer-term engagement with therapeutic apps.

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“…Nearly all anxiety disorders involve intense feelings of fear and the anticipation of imminent harm (Hilty and Mucic, 2016;Rachman, 2020). A short review of several types of anxiety shows subtler aspects of the problem.…”

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Pooling Mental Health Data with Chatbots

Mattioli¹

2021

Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons

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For an invisible condition, clinical anxiety casts a long shadow. In the United States, about 40 million adults -a full 18.1 percent of the population -suffer from an anxiety disorder, making it the most common type of mental health problem in the country [1]. Anxiety is insidious; it can crop up like a weed at any point in life, coloring one's days and nights with unaccountable feelings of dread. Anxiety is expensive. A recent study estimated that in the United States, the total costs of treatment, lost productivity, and lost wages are about $42 billion every year (Du Pont et al., 1996) [2]. This amount exceeds the most recent annual revenues of Facebook, Coca-Cola, Nike, and Morgan Stanley. Anxiety is thriving. There is a shortage of mental health workers (clinicians) in the United States, and experts believe that this problem of supply and demand will worsen substantially by 2025. Even when help is available, high prices and perceptions of social stigma prevent many people from seeking help [1].This chapter explores a new type of technology that relies in part upon large sets of patient data to relieve anxiety symptoms (Dobbs, 2017). The technology is software that can simulate certain kinds of conversations with human therapists. Referred to as "conversational agents" or "therapy chatbots," the idea might sound like science fiction, but it is a commercial reality. Recent studies indicate that conversational agents are useful in helping to reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression. A recent peerreviewed study showed that the program highlighted in this chapter, "Woebot," can significantly reduce depressive symptoms in two weeks of regular use [3]. Some therapy chatbots have also been able to predict the onset of panic attacks or depressive episodes based on patterns in user behavior (Mathotaarachchi, et al., 2017). A key feature of therapy chatbots is their ability to improve over time by drawing insights from the ever-

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Technology, Health, and Contemporary Practice: How Does e-Mental Health Fit It and What Does It Offer?

Cited by 6 publications

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Psychologists’ motivations for integrating apps into therapy with secondary school-aged young people

Psychologists’ motivations for integrating apps into therapy with secondary school-aged young people

Understanding Engagement With Forensic Smartphone Apps: The Service Design Engagement Model

Pooling Mental Health Data with Chatbots

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