This innovative book focuses on potential limitations and recommendations for the digital
mental health landscape. Authors synthesize existing literature on the validity of digital
health technologies including smartphones apps sensors chatbots and telepsychiatry for
mental health disorders. They also note that collecting real-time biological information is
usually better than just collect filled-in forms and that will also mitigate problems related
to recall bias in clinical appointments. Limitations such as confidentiality engagement and
retention rates are moreover discussed. Presented in fifteen chapters the work addresses the
following questions: may smartphones and sensors provide more accurate information about
patients¿ symptoms between clinical appointments which in turn avoid recall bias? Is there
evidence that digital phenotyping could help in clinical decisions in mental health? Is there
scientific evidence to support the use of mobile interventions in mental health? Digital
Mental Health will help clinicians and researchers especially psychiatrists and psychologists
to define measures and to determine how to test apps or usefulness feasibility and efficacy in
order to develop a consensus about reliability. These professionals will be armed with the
latest evidence as well as prepared to a new age of mental health.
