Naakesh A. Dewan - Böcker

This book will provide an overview of the state of the art in behavioral health care informatics as well as discussing the challenges on the horizon, such as organizational issues, human-centered issues, educating healthcare executives about technology issues, educating clinicians about behavioral informatics systems, and consumer issues. In addition to significant contributions by the editors, the book will contain contributions from a small number of acknowledged experts within their respective fields.As daily living becomes more stressful, socio-psychological or behavioral related problems become more intense. Informatics has the potential to transform the world of behavioral practitioners to enable them to assist people more easily. This book will focus on informatics-related topics that all disciplines connected to the behavioral health will find very useful for their day-to-day practice.

The purpose of the Mental Health Practice in a Digital World: A Clinicians Guide book is to prepare clinicians to understand, critically evaluate, and embrace well-designed and validated technologies that have the potential of transforming the access, affordability, and accountability of mental healthcare. The reader will become aware of the practical applications of technology in mental health as well as research supporting information technology tools, policy debates. Each chapter contains either examples or scenarios that are relevant to the current practice of mental health care. Policy makers, application developers, scientists, and executives that have lead or supported the use of technologies in real world practice are chapter authors.  The goal for this book is to be the key resource for current and future mental health clinicians in the U.S. and around the world to become familiar with technology innovations and how they impact and improve clinical practice.