e-Mental Health

This book describes the use of telecommunication technologies to provide mental health services to individuals in communities or locations that are underserviced, typically as a result of their geographic isolation or due to cultural and/or linguistic barriers.

The potential of the e-Mental Health approach is demonstrated in various mental health settings by describing concrete clinical examples and applications involving novel strategies for employing technology. Further, the book presents an approach to cooperation on a global level based on the exchange of expertise and knowledge across national boundaries.

The target audience includes mental health workers (clinicians and staff members), medical and nursing students, academic researchers, technology professionals and health care policy makers.

• cross cultural
• pathological use of internet
• patient satisfaction
• prevention
• stigma
• telepsychiatry
• web based approaches i.e. iCBT

“This work is meant to educate those unfamiliar with advances in mental health treatment using telecommunications, as well as to inform those already working in these environments with these technologies about the most recent evidence-based practices. … This book provides a succinct summary of what e-mental health is, and what it has the possibility to become. … its contents are valuable and thought-provoking.” (Steven T. Herron, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2016)

• The Little Prince Psychiatric Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Davor Mucic

• Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Donald M. Hilty

Davor Mucic, M.D. is an educated psychiatrist in Denmark. He established the Little Prince Psychiatric Center for refugees and migrants. This Center has been a pioneer in developing telepsychiatry in Denmark since 2000. In 2011 Davor Mucic launched a Telemental Health Section within European Psychiatric Association (EPA). He is also member of the Danish Psychiatric Association, World Psychiatric Association (WPA), World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) and American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and works as an Editor for the Edorium Journal of Psychiatry.

Donald M. Hilty, M.D. is a scholar in psychiatric and medical education, mood disorders, technology applied to clinical practice, and in mentoring of trainees at the Keck School of Medicine, University of California and Los Angeles County. His research involves health services, consultation-liaison models of care, medical education, mood disorders and genomics in underserved medical populations. Dr. Hilty hasauthored over 140 articles, chapters, book reviews, and/or books. He has participated in over 100 peer-reviewed presentations as a member of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), the Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA). 

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