Research. Mental health illness: benefits of clinical intervention using technology

Mental health illness: benefits of clinical intervention using technology
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February 07, 2020
Nowadays, one of the most challenging mental health issues that the governments in different countries need to address is depression since it dramatically hinders one's activities of daily living. The CDC (2018) states that the cause of depression is yet to be discovered. It can be innate due to human nature, routine, or due to psychological aspects. These features may augment the chances of incurring depression: familial predisposition, disturbing life events, and changes; being critically ill; using illicit drugs; and devouring in one's vices (Bennabi & Haffen, 2018).
1. What is your particular population or research interest for this class as it has to do with clinical interventions in psychology or social work using technology?
Treatment of depression comes typically in face to face set up with a psychiatrist, which involves psychiatric evaluation and psychotherapy (Wolters, Op de Beek, Weidle, & Skokauskas, 2017). Doctors often order antidepressants to patients diagnosed with depression. Other patients would prefer hospital and private treatment in which they will confine the patient to a mental facility and obtain the psychiatric treatment there. The problem here us that achieving cognitive-based therapy to an enormous number of people cannot be attained using conventional methods of dissemination. Possibly, technology can suffice the current gap through digital answers. Thus, gauging the current situation (Hallgren, Bauer, & Atkins, 2017). Also, when exploring therapy, most of the patients do not obtain care immediately, increasing any show rate and intensifying symptom severity. Some of the limits for conventional treatment of mental illness are patients usually relate logistical challenges, including transportation difficulties, to revisit meetings or absence of childcare. Some cannot bear the high costs of treatment, which, most of the time, cause thousands of dollars.
2. What might be some specific ICTs/applications/programs that might be used?
Technological advances nowadays have ended in an escalation in the use of cellular phones, social media, and the worldwide web to improve and promote treatment access. One of the said technological advances is the use of technology-enhanced cognitive behavior therapy interventions to treat depression (Ranta & Tejas, n.d.). This technology consists of electronic or on-screen training with a licensed therapist, in-session use of tablets for teaching clients CBT concepts and skills, and exchanging information for between-session homework suggestions and self-monitoring. In this new technique in managing patients with depression. In connection with this, using Meru health shows encouraging results by using a high-technology therapeutic solution for depression. In their data, one hundred forty-one people who started eight-week behavior management between March to December 2017. Here, eighty-six percent have completed the sessions. At the same time, the attrition rate was fourteen...