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 IntroductionSection A Digital Data Collection and Analysis2 Information technology and electronic health record to improve behavioral health services3 Big data and the goal of personalized health interventions4 Collecting data from Internet (and other platform) users for mental health research5 Ecological momentary assessment and other digital technologies for capturing daily life in mental health6 Social media big data analysis for mental health researchSection B Communication, pscyhoeducation, screening7 Telepsychiatry and video-to-home (including security issues)8 Social Media and Clinical Practice9 Websites and the validity of mental health care information10 Digital phenotyping11 The digital therapeutic relationship: Retaining humanity in the digital ageSection C Problematic use of the Internet12 Gambling disorder, gaming disorder, cybershopping, and other addictive/impulsive disorders online13 Cyberchondria, cyberhoarding, and other compulsive online disorders14 Internet-use disorders: A theoretical framework for their conceptualization and diagnosis15 Cybersex (including sex robots)16 Developmental aspects (including cyberbullying)Section D Interventions17 Internet-based psychotherapies18 Apps for mental health19 Clinical interventions for technology-based problems20 Scaling up of mental health services in the digital age: The rise of technology and its application to low- and middle-income countries21 Addiction, autonomy, and the Internet: Some ethical considerations