The health apps on your smart phone: science or snake oil?

Adverse event monitoring in mHealth for psychosis interventions provides an important opportunity for learning

“…There have been warnings against the risk of seeing digital interventions in mental health as a panacea for long standing and complex problems (Wykes & Brown, 2016). Interventions may also be causing harm through overselling their benefits (Wykes, 2019) and as a result of being insufficiently sensitive to the often complex needs of people affected by serious mental health problems (Lipczynska, 2016). An increased focus on the duality of costs and benefits in digital interventions has been commented on in this journal (Guha, 2017) and the need to more rigorously review both costs and benefits of digital interventions for mental health has been highlighted elsewhere (Armontrout, Torous, Fisher, Drogin, & Gutheil, 2016;Naeem et al, 2015;Rozental et al, 2014;Torous, Nicholas, Larsen, Firth, & Christensen, 2018).…”

Racing towards a digital paradise or a digital hell?

“…This journal has not ignored e-health. We have been commenting on it and publishing papers and reviews for many years (Guha, 2017;Lipczynska, 2012Lipczynska, , 2016Moessner & Bauer, 2012;Moessner, Minarik, Ozer, & Bauer, 2016;Schmidt & Wykes, 2012). Some have suggested problems; some papers think digital or e-health is a panacea for resource limits.…”

A Prática da Avaliação Psicológica em Neuropsicologia e Psicologia do Trânsito Durante Estágio de Formação Profissional

“…Há ainda a promessa feita por aplicativos de celular de avaliar e treinar processos cognitivos e comportamentais no estilo "faça você mesmo". Existem recursos disponíveis para o manejo de psicopatologias, mas não há controle ou qualquer avaliação profissional ou científica sobre os dispositivos (Lipczynska, 2016). Neste âmbito, é imperativo a modernização das estratégias de ensino, com incorporação das evidências científicas recentes sobre a testagem computadorizada e valorização da ciência psicológica.…”