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\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n

People wish to live a meaningful life even while suffering from mental health problems. Adam Clifford, a clinical nurse specialist at Nottinghamshire Healthcare, wrote Using Video Technology to Manage Mental Health<\/em> for Learning Disability Practice, he states that forty percent of the population has additional mental health problems. Majority of this forty percent is embarrassed or uncomfortable in accessing mental health care (2014). In A Rural Youth Consumer Perspective of Technology to Enhance Face-to-Face Mental Health Services<\/em> 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 anxiety and depression is based on four main functions; information provision, screening, assessment, and monitoring (Lawn, S., Antezana, G., Venning, A., Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B. 2016). Implementing technology in health care services can offer advantages and disadvantages for people with mental health issues. Technology will positively impact mental health care services, by making it more accessible for people with limited financial flexibility and transportation, young adults<\/a> with mental illnesses will feel more comfortable<\/a> seeking help or advice, and it will give a better and more accurate experience for both the patient and professional.<\/p>\n

Limited financial flexibility and availability of transport:<\/h2>\n

Mental health care support is a vital aid which is not accessible
\nto some people because of financial costs and transportation needs. The
\npromise and the reality: a mental health workforce perspective on technology-enhanced
\nyouth mental health service delivery<\/em>, an article written by Simone Orlowski
\nfrom BMC Health Services Research, states thattechnology will make mental
\nhealth services more accessible for young adults who have limited financial
\nflexibility or do not have means of transport (2016). The combination of
\nlimited financial and transportation aid gives restricted opportunities for
\nmental health care services not located at home. Recent developments from using
\nonline resources and mobile technologies to support mental health care has shown
\nimprovement for people with restricted financial and transportation support. Turvey,
\nC. L, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Carver College of Medicine wrote Recent
\ndevelopments in the use of online resources and mobile technologies to support
\nmental health care<\/em> for the International Review Of Psychiatry, he suggests
\nhouse based health-related mobile applications and web-based electronic mental
\nhealth problems as solutions for people who have limited transportation and
\nfinancials (Roberts, L. J. 2015).<\/p>\n

Young adults feel uncomfortable seeking help or advice:<\/h2>\n

20% of young Australians between the ages of fifteen to nineteen
\nsuffer from the symptoms of mental illness and 60% of those teens are
\nuncomfortable seeking help or advice for their mental illness (Orlowski. S,
\n2016). A Rural Youth Consumer Perspective of Technology to Enhance
\nFace-to-Face Mental Health Services <\/em>written by Sharon Lawn, the director of
\nthe Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit at Flinders University, expresses
\nthat the increase in percentage of teens who feel uncomfortable asking for help
\ndecreases engagement for youth towards mental health services, technology can
\nincrease engagement by using similar methods used in teen\u2019s day to day life (Journal
\nOf Child & Family Studies. Orlowski, S., Antezana, G., Venning, A.,
\nWinsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B. 2016). Young adults constantly
\nuse their cellphones and always have them by their side, Turvey from The
\nInternational Review of Psychiatry states the proposition given for mobile apps
\nin mental health is based on the ideal that they will always be with the
\npatient. If the mobile device with the app is with them all the time it can
\nhelp promote their clinical goals for example a person with a chronic psychotic
\ndisorder would get a notification at medication time. Mild to moderate
\ndepression and anxiety can be treated through another method of self-guided or
\nprofessional facilitated therapies that are delivered via internet. Lastly, the
\npart that would appeal most to young adults is that patients can use these
\napplications and programs in private with no interactions with professionals
\n(Turvey, C. L., Roberts, L. J. 2015).<\/p>\n

Better experience for patient and the professional<\/h2>\n

Implementing technology can improve the experience for both the
\npatient and professional. Technology can give a more accurate treatment without
\ncompletely replacing face to face interactions. It can be implemented through
\npredictive analytics, increased consumer input, self-management, and inclusive
\nstakeholder communication, these reasons for implementing technology into
\nmental health services are under researched (Orlowski, S., Lawn, S., Antezana,
\nG., Venning, A., Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B. 2016). Extra
\nsensory perception<\/em> an article from Scientific American written by Gershon
\nDublon, a Ph.D. student at the M.I.T. media lab and Joseph A. Paradiso, an
\nassociate professor of media arts and sciences at the Media Lab from the
\nstimulus packet helps piece together how technology will help mental health
\ncare services. Different sensors described by Dublon and Paradiso will change
\nhow comfortable patients feel in an environment or how professionals can give
\nthe patient a better experience. Temperature sensors can determine the
\ntemperature and relative humidity in the room as measure by dense sensor
\nnetwork. Sound sensors will help a patient recognize the movement and sound in
\na room, so it can be adjusted to their preference. Overall, the temperature and
\nsound sensors will give the professional and patient better control of the
\nenvironment. The data collected by these sensors can be used as references in
\nthe future to experience data from the past in multiple perspectives. Guarav
\nSingh, head of the department of psychiatry at the Medical College Hospital and
\nResearch Center in Uttar Pradesh, India, wrote Use of Mobile Phone
\nTechnology to Improve follow-up at a Community Mental Health Clinic: A
\nRandomized Control Trial<\/em> published by Indian Journal of Psychological
\nMedicine, in this article he emits the fact that missed appointments are common
\nin outpatient care for mental health-care services. Even with the need of
\nfurther treatment 16-60% will not follow up with their appointments. The
\nsuggested method for improving follow up in outpatient care is through short
\nmessage service (SMS) and voice calls via telephone.<\/p>\n

Counter-argument<\/h2>\n

The mental health workforce fears that technology will have a
\nnegative effect on their services believes that it will disclose privacy and
\nconfidentiality from issues within the technology programs (Orlowski, S., Lawn,
\nS., Antezana, G., Venning, A., Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., & Matthews, B.
\n2016). Technology is believed to increase the workload for professionals and
\nuphold disengagement from face-to-face therapy. Relating to the idea of
\nface-to-face therapy, in The Historian as Participant<\/em> from The Historian
\nand the World of the Twentieth Century written by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an
\nAmerican historian, social critic, and public intellectual, eyewitness history
\nis considered valuable for historians. In this situation eyewitness history and
\nface-to-face therapy hold a connection in the importance of how eyewitnesses
\ncan more accurately identify critical factors in the process of these events.
\nEyewitness history holds a different perspective to history, it shows the way
\npeople think and feel. When implementing technology into mental health care
\nservices and decreasing the amount of face-to-face contact, the input of
\nemotions given by the professional is eliminated.<\/p>\n

Solution<\/h2>\n

The implementation of technology can be approached from different
\nangles such as implementation programs for mental health care services. Simone
\nOrlowski states that most technology solutions include mental health self-help
\nprograms which are more independent for the participant. Cognitive Behavioral
\nTherapy interventions (iCBT\u2019s) which treats mild to moderate mental health
\nproblems such as depression and anxiety or mobile apps for self-management and
\nself-treatment which will help limit interactions with health professionals to
\nlittle or none. People with more severe cases of mental problems will struggle
\nwith self-help programs and will need to consult with professionals. Telepscychiatry
\nwhich is meant for more severe cases that would require input from professionals
\nvia video conferences. Telepscychiatry can allow patients with limited financial
\nabilities and limited technology availability to obtain therapy affordable to
\nthem (Lawn, S., Matthews, B., Venning, A., Wyld, K., Jones, G., & \u2026
\nBidargaddi, N. 2016). People in programs like Telepscychiatry are limited to
\nthe variety of mental health professionals available for face-to-face therapy. Mobile
\napps are one of the aforementioned solutions for mental health care services.
\nThe functions supported by mobile apps, online health programs, or personal
\nhealth records overlap in information and abilities. The three technological
\nprograms give standard mental health scales or electronic messages reminders to
\npromote health behavior. Mobile apps are the preferred program which offer
\nfunctions such as targeted educational content, structured mental health
\nassessments, symptom or behavior logs, and context sensing or unobtrusive
\nmonitoring (Turvey, C. L., & Roberts, L. J. 2015).<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

Technology will improve mental health care services for young
\nadults who feel uncomfortable seeking help, people with constrained financial
\nand transporting utilities, and it will improve the course of treatment for
\nboth patient and professional.The mental health workforce is opposed to
\nthe implementation of technology because complications in patient
\nconfidentiality and privacy. Technology self-help programs via internet and
\nmobile apps will be available for people suffering from depression, anxiety, and
\nother conditions. Telepscychiatry will be available for people who cannot
\nbenefit from self-help programs. The limitations to these solutions are the
\nlevel the patients conditions and the decreased expertise of professionals that
\nonly work with face-to-face patients. The implementation of these programs with
\ntheir limitations will improve mental health care services, but not completely
\nrewire how it works. <\/p>\n

References<\/h2>\n

Clifford,
\nA. (2014). Using video technology to manage mental health. Learning Disability Practice, 17(7), 24-28. <\/p>\n

Dublon,
\nG., & Paradiso, J. A. (2014, July). Extra sensory perception. Scientific American, 38-41.<\/p>\n

Orlowski,
\nS., Lawn, S., Matthews, B., Venning, A., Wyld, K., Jones, G., & \u2026
\nBidargaddi, N. \u00a0(2016). The promise and the reality: a mental health workforce
\nperspective on technology-enhanced youth mental health service delivery. BMC
\nHealth Services Research, 161-12. doi:10.1186\/s12913-016-1790-y<\/p>\n

Orlowski,
\nS., Lawn, S., Antezana, G., Venning, A., Winsall, M., Bidargaddi, N., &
\nMatthews, B. (2016). A Rural Youth Consumer Perspective of Technology to Enhance
\nFace-to-Face Mental Health Services. Journal Of Child & Family Studies,
\n25(10), 3066-3075. doi:10.1007\/s10826-016-0472-z<\/p>\n

Schlesinger,
\nA., Jr. (1971). The historian as participant. In J. Grenville (Author), The historian and the world of the twentieth century (Spring ed., Vol. 100, pp. 339-358).<\/p>\n

Singh,
\nG., Manjunatha, N., Rao, S., Shashidhara, H. N., Moirangthem, S., Madegowda,
\nR.\u00a0 K., & \u2026 Varghese, M. (2017). Use of Mobile Phone Technology to Improve
\nfollow-up at a Community Mental Health Clinic: A Randomized Control Trial.
\nIndian Journal Of Psychological Medicine, 39(3), 276-280.
\ndoi:10.4103\/0253-7176.207325<\/p>\n

Turvey,
\nC. L., & Roberts, L. J. (2015). Recent developments in the use of online
\nresources and mobile technologies to support mental health care. International
\nReview of Psychiatry, 27(6), 547-557. doi:10.3109\/09540261.2015.1087975<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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