Digital Mental Health publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research on the cross-talk between psychiatry, psychology, and innovative technologies for the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. The is supported by an Editorial Board of international researchers guaranteeing an efficient and domain-specific quality peer-review process. This multi-disciplinary open-access section aims to publish beyond state-of-the-art research covering the full knowledge research cycle with results from fundamental as well as applied clinical studies.
Digital mental health has been multi-disciplinary from the beginning, with collaboration between psychiatry/psychology and software developers. More recently, it has extended to many other disciplines such as computer sciences, including AI, human-computer interaction and wearable computing, serious gaming, ecological momentary assessment, and implementation sciences. Digital mental health and AI provide innovative opportunities for personalization and predictive modelling (from early recognition, diagnosis, and treatment) and have opened the way for digital phenotyping, thereby adding objective markers and proxies for prevention and treatment.
This section also applies a strong focus on co-morbidity between mental health and physical disorders which enables us to understand the dynamic nature of mental disorders and the contextual factors surrounding them. This in combination with innovations in methodological approaches, as enabled by big data gathering and analytical methods, makes the section an excellent platform for the dissemination of research to senior and early-career scientists, clinicians, service providers, policymakers, students and those with varying experience in the domain of digital mental health. This specialty section will publish the latest advances in digital mental health. The author guidelines provide further details on the various article types and the submission process.
The collection Frontiers in Digital Health – Highlights in Digital Mental Health 2021/22 is a collection that will welcome and showcase a selection of high impact articles authored by leaders in the field. The work presented here highlights the broad diversity of research performed across the Digital Mental Health section, and aims to put a spotlight on the main areas of interest. This collection aims to further support Frontiers’ strong community by shining a spotlight on our authors' highly impactful research.
Psychosomatic Medicine looks back at a longstanding tradition of interdisciplinary medical research investigating the mutual influences of psychosocial and physical factors on the development, progress and condition of disorders. A prominent example is consultation-liaison psychiatry, a specialty at the interface of mental and physical health care. Digital interventions are currently transforming health and care. Options of improving psychosomatic interprofessional care can be found in the following:
- Applications for monitoring mental and physical conditions by daily self-assessments, sensor data and/or smartphone-based data (location, activities, steps) often referred to as so called Ecological Momentary Assessments enabling individualized and targeted interventions
- Treatment concepts recurring to guided web-based interventions including CBT-based programs, mindfulness-based concepts and psychoeducation
- Applications supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g. affective computing, voice- and video-based analysis) allowing for personalized intervention suggestions
- Web-based interventions designed for disease management, e.g. of a chronic disorder
- Innovative care concepts for psychosomatic disorders such as stepped or blended care, that basically make use of technology at certain points of treatment
- Approaches to support innovative nursing and care in psychosomatics
- Innovative solutions including videoconferencing tools for psychosomatic care or consultation-liaison psychiatry
- Augmented and virtual reality interventions for psychosomatic recovery
- Implementation facilitators and barriers in the sectors of psychosomatic care or consultation-liaison psychiatry
- Applying technology to improve doctor-patient-communication and support the social support system of patients, e.g. by including relatives, caregivers and other close relationships of patients
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