Implementing Technology in Mental Health Practice

Implementing Technology in Mental wellness PracticeIntroductionPeople wish to live a meaningful life even season suffering from cordial wellness problems. Adam Clifford, a clinical nurse specialist at Nottinghamshire healthcargon, wrote Using Video Technology to Manage Mental Health for Learning Disability Practice, he states that forty percent of the population has additional psychical health problems. Majority of this forty percent is embarrassed or disquieting in accessing mental health care (2014). In A Rural jejuneness Consumer Perspective of Technology to Enhance Face-to-Face Mental Health operate from Journal Of Child & Family Studies written by Simone Orlowski who is affiliated with Flinders Human Behavior & Health Research Unit at Flinders University, explains that mental health treatment that is aimed towards dread and depression is base on four main functions information provision, screening, assessment, and monitoring (Lawn, S., Antezana, G., Venning, A., Winsal l, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B. 2016). Implementing engineering science in health care services sack up offer advantages and disadvantages for volume with mental health issues. Technology pull up stakes positively impact mental health care services, by making it much accessible for citizenry with express financial flexibility and transportation, young adults with mental illnesses will feel more comfortable seeking aid or advice, and it will feed a divulge and more accurate give for both the patient and professional.Limited financial flexibility and availability of transportMental health care support is a vital aid which is non accessibleto some people because of financial costs and transportation emergencys. Thepromise and the reality a mental health work force perspective on technology-enhancedyouth mental health service delivery, an article written by Simone Orlowskifrom BMC Health Services Research, states thattechnology will make mentalhealth services more acc essible for young adults who have expressage financialflexibility or do not have means of transport (2016). The conspiracy oflimited financial and transportation aid sustains restricted opportunities formental health care services not located at home. Recent developments from usingonline resources and fluent technologies to support mental health care has shownimprovement for people with restricted financial and transportation support. Turvey,C. L, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Carver College of medicament wrote Recentdevelopments in the use of online resources and mobile technologies to supportmental health care for the International Review Of Psychiatry, he suggestshouse based health-related mobile applications and web-based electronic mentalhealth problems as solutions for people who have limited transportation andfinancials (Roberts, L. J. 2015). untested adults feel uncomfortable seeking help or advice20% of young Australians between the ages of fifteen to nineteens uffer from the symptoms of mental illness and 60% of those teens areuncomfortable seeking help or advice for their mental illness (Orlowski. S,2016). A Rural Youth Consumer Perspective of Technology to EnhanceFace-to-Face Mental Health Services written by Sharon Lawn, the director ofthe Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit at Flinders University, expressesthat the increase in percentage of teens who feel uncomfortable asking for helpdecreases engagement for youth towards mental health services, technology canincrease engagement by using similar methods used in teens day to day life (JournalOf Child & Family Studies. Orlowski, S., Antezana, G., Venning, A.,Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B. 2016). Young adults constantlyuse their cellphones and always have them by their side, Turvey from TheInternational Review of Psychiatry states the proposition given for mobile appsin mental health is based on the ideal that they will always be with thepatient. If the mobile device with the app is with them all the time it canhelp promote their clinical goals for example a person with a chronic psychoticdisorder would get a notification at medication time. Mild to moderatedepression and anxiety can be treated through another method of self-guided orprofessional facilitated therapies that are delivered via internet. Lastly, thepart that would appeal most to young adults is that patients can use theseapplications and programs in private with no interactions with professionals(Turvey, C. L., Roberts, L. J. 2015).Better experience for patient and the professionalImplementing technology can improve the experience for both thepatient and professional. Technology can give a more accurate treatment withoutcompletely replacing face to face interactions. It can be implemented throughpredictive analytics, increased consumer input, self-management, and comprehensivestakeholder communication, these reasons for implementing technology intomental health services are under researched (Orlowski, S., Lawn, S., Antezana,G., Venning, A., Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B. 2016). Extrasensory perception an article from Scientific American written by GershonDublon, a Ph.D. student at the M.I.T. media lab and Joseph A. Paradiso, anassociate professor of media arts and sciences at the Media Lab from thestimulus packet helps piece together how technology will help mental healthcare services. Different sensors described by Dublon and Paradiso will changehow comfortable patients feel in an environment or how professionals can givethe patient a better experience. Temperature sensors can determine thetemperature and relative humidity in the room as measure by dense sensornetwork. overweight sensors will help a patient recognize the movement and sound ina room, so it can be adjusted to their preference. Overall, the temperature andsound sensors will give the professional and patient better control of theenvironment. The data collected by these senso rs can be used as references inthe future to experience data from the past in multiple perspectives. GuaravSingh, head of the department of psychiatry at the Medical College Hospital andResearch Center in Uttar Pradesh, India, wrote Use of peregrine PhoneTechnology to Improve follow-up at a Community Mental Health Clinic A randomize Control Trial published by Indian Journal of PsychologicalMedicine, in this article he emits the fact that missed appointments are commonin outpatient care for mental health-care services. Even with the need offurther treatment 16-60% will not follow up with their appointments. Thesuggested method for improving follow up in outpatient care is through short centre service (SMS) and voice calls via telephone.Counter-argumentThe mental health workforce fears that technology will have anegative effect on their services believes that it will come across privacy andconfidentiality from issues within the technology programs (Orlowski, S., Lawn,S., Antezana, G ., Venning, A., Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B.2016). Technology is believed to increase the workload for professionals anduphold disengagement from face-to-face therapy. Relating to the idea offace-to-face therapy, in The Historian as instrumentalist from The Historianand the World of the Twentieth Century written by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was anAmerican historian, social critic, and public intellectual, eyewitness historyis considered valuable for historians. In this note eyewitness history andface-to-face therapy hold a connection in the importance of how eyewitnessescan more accurately identify critical factors in the knead of these events.Eyewitness history holds a different perspective to history, it shows the waypeople think and feel. When implementing technology into mental health careservices and decreasing the keep down of face-to-face contact, the input ofemotions given by the professional is eliminated.SolutionThe implementation of technology can be appro ached from differentangles such as implementation programs for mental health care services. SimoneOrlowski states that most technology solutions include mental health self-helpprograms which are more independent for the participant. Cognitive BehavioralTherapy interventions (iCBTs) which treats mild to moderate mental healthproblems such as depression and anxiety or mobile apps for self-management andself-treatment which will help limit interactions with health professionals tolittle or none. People with more severe cases of mental problems will strugglewith self-help programs and will need to consult with professionals. Telepscychiatrywhich is meant for more severe cases that would require input from professionalsvia video conferences. Telepscychiatry can allow patients with limited financialabilities and limited technology availability to obtain therapy affordable tothem (Lawn, S., Matthews, B., Venning, A., Wyld, K., Jones, G., & Bidargaddi, N. 2016). People in programs like Tele pscychiatry are limited tothe variety of mental health professionals uncommitted for face-to-face therapy. Mobileapps are one of the aforementioned solutions for mental health care services.The functions supported by mobile apps, online health programs, or personalhealth records overlap in information and abilities. The three technologicalprograms give standard mental health scales or electronic messages reminders topromote health behavior. Mobile apps are the preferred program which offerfunctions such as targeted educational content, structured mental healthassessments, symptom or behavior logs, and context sensing or unobtrusivemonitoring (Turvey, C. L., & Roberts, L. J. 2015).ConclusionTechnology will improve mental health care services for youngadults who feel uncomfortable seeking help, people with constrained financialand transporting utilities, and it will improve the course of treatment forboth patient and professional.The mental health workforce is opposed tothe implement ation of technology because complications in patientconfidentiality and privacy. Technology self-help programs via internet andmobile apps will be available for people suffering from depression, anxiety, andother conditions. Telepscychiatry will be available for people who cannot expediency from self-help programs. The limitations to these solutions are thelevel the patients conditions and the decreased expertise of professionals thatonly work with face-to-face patients. The implementation of these programs withtheir limitations will improve mental health care services, but not completelyrewire how it works. ReferencesClifford,A. (2014). Using video technology to manage mental health. Learning Disability Practice, 17(7), 24-28. Dublon,G., & Paradiso, J. A. (2014, July). Extra sensory perception. Scientific American, 38-41.Orlowski,S., Lawn, S., Matthews, B., Venning, A., Wyld, K., Jones, G., & Bidargaddi, N. (2016). The promise and the reality a mental health workforceperspective on technology-enhanced youth mental health service delivery. 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