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Digital Psychiatry

Case Studies from Patient-Driven Innovations

  • 1st Edition - May 3, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Luis Sandoval, Elizaveta Solomonova, Ashley Buchanan-Nguyen
  • Language: English

Digital Psychiatry: Case Studies of Patient-Driven Innovations illustrates the clinical perspective of using technology to improve mental health of patients. Over the past two de… Read more

Description

Digital Psychiatry: Case Studies of Patient-Driven Innovations illustrates the clinical perspective of using technology to improve mental health of patients. Over the past two decades, technology has begun to play an important role in medicine. The synergy of technology and psychiatry, now called telepsychiatry or digital psychiatry, has helped increase treatment access, training, and dissemination while reducing cost and stigma associated with mental health disorders. Most of what is known today in telepsychiatry is based on scientific research such as pilot studies, clinical trials and meta-analyses, which have been conducted in hospital and/or academic settings. These studies only tell one side of the story, that of the scientists, doctors, clinicians, and professors without taking into account the experience of the patients. This reference examines a series of clinical cases to showcase how modified technological devices such as video games, apps, movies, and online videos can treat psychiatric conditions. This book is a prime resource for researchers and clinicians who are trying to understand how to incorporate technology into treatment options for patients.

Key features

  • Discusses how telepsychiatry can be used in a private setting
  • Demonstrates how technological devices such as video games and apps are used as treatment options
  • Includes both successful and non-successful patient cases
  • Provides both clinical and patient perspective towards treatment

Readership

Psychology faculty, researchers, and clinicians in cognition, emotion, informatics, education, computer science, technology, and healthcare

Table of contents

1. History of Psychiatry and Telemedicine


2. Telemedicine approaches in psychiatric disorders
The Clinicians’ perspective using technological interventions in: o Depressiono Schizophreniao Autismo OCDo Anxietyo Cognitive Remediation


3. Using technology to treat mental health from the patients’ perspective Successful cases using Telepsychiatry apps:
Case of Mr. NBA: Treating schizophrenia using free mobile apps
Case of Mr. MG: Treating Social-cognition and Social anxiety in Schizoaffective and Autisms Spectrum Disorder using videogame parties’ forums
Case of Young AK and family: Communicating and understanding how to socialize with my kid with autism through scenes from children’s movies


4. The challenges of Telepsychiatry
Case of Mr. JT: Overcoming a fear of bugs using videos as a way to treat OCD
Case of Mr. JV: Improving cognitive functions using online cognitive apps and web games
Case of a Mental Health Institution’s app: High effort and technology but poor outcomes


5. Lessons and Discussion


6. Future innovations in Telepsychiatry

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 3, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Luis Sandoval

Luis R. Sandoval, PhD is Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School, and a at the Public Psychiatry Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and at the Commonwealth Research Center. His clinical specialization is in the diagnosis and treatment of adults with severe mental illness, including psychotic and mood disorders. Dr. Sandoval has worked in Mexico, Central America, and in the U.S. and has nearly 14 years of clinical experience. His clinical and research interests include computer-human interaction, cognitive remediation in psychotic disorders, and cross-cultural diagnoses.
Affiliations and expertise
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School, and Public Psychiatry Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Commonwealth Research Center, MA, USA

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Elizaveta Solomonova

Elizaveta Solomonova, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary researcher in McGill University’s Neurophilosophy Lab, at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. Dr. Solomonova is interested in neuroscience and phenomenology of conscious experiences across the sleep and wake states, including dreaming, hallucinatory phenomena, parasomnias, and altered states of consciousness. She has extensive experience in research on dreams, sleep, memory consolidation, and meditation practices: she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Montreal in Psychiatry and Philosophy, and an MSc in Experimental Psychology. Dr. Solomonova is trained in cognitive neuroscience and in philosophy of mind, and is particularly interested in hybrid states of consciousness, where waking and dreaming boundaries are blurred. Her most recent projects are centred around questions of how the social world influences how and when people sleep, dream, and share experiences across cultures and social groups.

Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, Neurophilosophy Lab Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry Lecturer, Department of Psychology McGill University.

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Ashley Buchanan-Nguyen

Dr. Ashley Buchanan-Nguyen is a Clinical Fellow at Beth Israel Lahey Hospital – Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA. She brings expertise in the fields of psychology, severe and persistent mental illness, psychosis, relationship psychology, and evidence-based psychotherapy.

Affiliations and expertise
Beth Israel Lahey Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA