TECHNOLOGY AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

1. An Overview of Adolescent Mental Health
2. Adolescents Seeking Online Health Information: Topics, Approaches, and Challenges
3. How Mental Health Conditions Affect Online Use and Access
4. Technology Use Among Special Populations
5. Positive and Negative Associations Between Adolescent Mental Health and Technology
6. Social Media Use and Display of Depressive Symptoms Online by Adolescents and Young Adults
7. Cyberbullying and Mental Health
8. Media Multitasking and Mental Health
9. Internet Gaming Disorder
10. When Does Internet and Smartphone Use Become a Problem?
11. Identifying Symptoms Using Technology
12. Social Media Data for Online Adolescent Suicide Risk Identification: Considerations for Integration Within Platforms, Clinics, and Schools
13. Telemental Health
14. Social Media Interventions for Adolescents and Young People with Depression and Psychosis
15. The Role of Texting in Addressing Mental Health
16. Online Therapy for Adolescent Mental Health
17. Video Games and Their Impact on Teens’ Mental Health
18. Apps for Mental Health
19. Comprehensive Approaches Using Technology to Address Mental Health

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.

Features
• This up-to-date resource addresses current technological interventions and methods in addressing mental health conditions
• Written by leaders in the field
• Specifically addresses mental health issues unique to adolescents utilizing a case-based format