Main description:

This comprehensive book provides a framework for healthcare providers working with the dual challenges and opportunities presented by the intersection of mental health and technology. Technology and Adolescent Mental Health provides recent, evidence-based approaches that are applicable to clinical practice and adolescent care, with each chapter including a patient case illustrating key components of the chapter contents. Early chapters address the epidemiology of mental health, while the second section of the book deals with how both offline and online worlds affect mental health, presenting both positive and negative outcomes, and focusing on special populations of at-risk adolescents. The third section of the book focuses on technology uses for observation, diagnosis or screening for mental health conditions. The final section highlights promising future approaches to technology, and tools for improving intervention and treatment for mental health concerns and illnesses. This book will be a key resource for pediatricians, family physicians, internal medicine providers, adolescent medicine and psychiatry specialists, psychologists, social workers, as well as any other healthcare providers working with adolescents and mental health care.

Contents:

Preface

Section 1 Epidemiology of mental health and technology

Chapter 1: An Overview of Adolescent Mental Health

Chapter 2: Adolescents Seeking Online Health Information: Topics, Approaches, and Challenges

Chapter 3: How Mental Health Conditions affect Online Use and Access

Chapter 4: Technology Use Among Special populations

Section 2 Associations between mental health symptoms and technology use

Chapter 5: Positive and negative associations between adolescent mental health and technology

Chapter 6: Social Media Use and Display of Depressive Symptoms Online by Adolescents and Young Adults

Chapter 7: Cyberbullying and mental health

Chapter 8: Media Multitasking and Mental Health

Chapter 9: Internet gaming disorder

Chapter 10: When Does Internet and Smartphone Use Become a Problem?

Section 3 Use of Technology for Diagnosis, Intervention, and Treatment

Chapter 11: Identifying mental health symptoms using technology

Chapter 12: Social Media Data for Online Adolescent Suicide Risk Identification: Considerations for Integration within Platforms, Clinics, and Schools

Chapter 13: Telemental health

Chapter 14: Social Media Interventions for Adolescents and Young People with Depression and Psychosis

Chapter 15: The role of texting in addressing mental health

Chapter 16: Online Therapy for Adolescent Mental Health

Chapter 17: Video Games and their Impact on Teens' Mental Health

Chapter 18: Apps for Mental Health

Chapter 19: Comprehensive approaches using technology to address mental health