Mental Health in a Digital World

Professor Dan J. Stein is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Stein’s research areas include anxiety, trauma-, and stressor-related disorders. His work ranges from basic neuroscience, through clinical investigations and trials, and on to epidemiological and cross-cultural studies. 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

1 Introduction Section A Digital Data Collection and Analysis 2 Information technology and electronic health record to improve behavioral health services 3 Big data and the goal of personalized health interventions 4 Collecting data from Internet (and other platform) users for mental health research 5 Ecological momentary assessment and other digital technologies for capturing daily life in mental health 6 Social media big data analysis for mental health research Section B Communication, pscyhoeducation, screening 7 Telepsychiatry and video-to-home (including security issues) 8 Social Media and Clinical Practice 9 Websites and the validity of mental health care information 10 Digital phenotyping 11 The digital therapeutic relationship: Retaining humanity in the digital age Section C Problematic use of the Internet 12 Gambling disorder, gaming disorder, cybershopping, and other addictive/impulsive disorders online 13 Cyberchondria, cyberhoarding, and other compulsive online disorders 14 Internet-use disorders: A theoretical framework for their conceptualization and diagnosis 15 Cybersex (including sex robots) 16 Developmental aspects (including cyberbullying) Section D Interventions 17 Internet-based psychotherapies 18 Apps for mental health 19 Clinical interventions for technology-based problems 20 Scaling up of mental health services in the digital age: The rise of technology and its application to low- and middle-income countries 21 Addiction, autonomy, and the Internet: Some ethical considerations