This comprehensive book provides a framework for healthcare providers working with the dual
challenges and opportunities presented by the intersection of mental health and technology.
Technology and Adolescent Mental Health provides recent evidence-based approaches that are
applicable to clinical practice and adolescent care with each chapter including a patient case
illustrating key components of the chapter contents. Early chapters address the epidemiology of
mental health while the second section of the book deals with how both offline and online
worlds affect mental health presenting both positive and negative outcomes and focusing on
special populations of at-risk adolescents. The third section of the book focuses on technology
uses for observation diagnosis or screening for mental health conditions. The final section
highlights promising future approaches to technology and tools for improving intervention and
treatment for mental health concerns and illnesses. This book will be a key resource for
pediatricians family physicians internal medicine providers adolescent medicine and
psychiatry specialists psychologists social workers as well as any other healthcare
providers working with adolescents and mental health care.
