Tal Amir, Torous John
Beit Ekstein, Danel Group.
Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.
Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2017 Sep;40(3):263-265. doi: 10.1037/prj0000285.
This editorial introduces the special issue on digital mental health. The promise of digital, mobile, and connected technologies to advance mental health, and especially psychiatric rehabilitation, continues to rapidly evolve. New sensors and data, such as those derived from increasingly ubiquitous smartphones, offer a new window into the functional, social, and emotional experiences of illness and recovery at a personalized and quantified level previously unimaginable (Ben-Zeev & Badiyani, 2016; Free et al., 2013; Torous, Kiang, Lorme, & Onnela, 2016). These new technologies may also help assess and monitor mental health on a population level and provide early interventions and resources to those in need, regardless of their location (East & Havard, 2015). The papers comprising this special issue make important and exciting contributions to the mental health field in general and to digital mental health for psychiatric rehabilitation in particular. These papers illustrate that we are at the beginning of an era that may provide new knowledge and evidence-based tools to better promote mental health diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery. (PsycINFO Database Record
这篇社论介绍了关于数字心理健康的特刊。数字、移动和互联技术在促进心理健康，尤其是精神疾病康复方面的前景仍在迅速发展。新的传感器和数据，比如来自日益普及的智能手机的数据，在个性化和量化层面上为疾病与康复的功能、社交及情感体验提供了一个前所未有的新窗口（本-泽夫和巴迪亚尼，2016；弗里等人，2013；托罗斯、姜、洛姆和奥内拉，2016）。这些新技术还可能有助于在人群层面评估和监测心理健康状况，并为有需要的人提供早期干预和资源，无论他们身在何处（伊斯特和哈瓦德，2015）。构成本特刊的论文对总体心理健康领域，特别是对用于精神疾病康复的数字心理健康做出了重要且令人振奋的贡献。这些论文表明，我们正处于一个新时代的开端，这个时代可能会提供新的知识和循证工具，以更好地促进心理健康诊断、治疗、康复及恢复。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》 ）
