ABSTRACT
With thousands of smartphone apps targeting mental health, it is difficult to ignore the rapidly expanding use of apps in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Patients with psychiatric conditions are interested in mental health apps and have begun to use them. That does not mean that clinicians must support, endorse, or even adopt the use of apps, but they should be prepared to answer patients' questions about apps and facilitate shared decision making around app use. This column describes an evaluation framework designed by the American Psychiatric Association to guide informed decision making around the use of smartphone apps in clinical care.
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Decision Making , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Mental Disorders/therapy , Mental Health Services , Mobile Applications , Humans , SmartphoneSubject(s)
Adolescent Psychiatry/methods , Child Psychiatry/methods , Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/methods , Ecological Momentary Assessment , Mobile Applications , Telemedicine/methods , Adolescent , Adolescent Psychiatry/instrumentation , Child , Child Psychiatry/instrumentation , Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/instrumentation , Humans , Telemedicine/instrumentationABSTRACT
Technology has become an integral part of everyday life and is starting to shape the landscape of graduate medical education. This article reviews the use of technology in teaching child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) fellows, and 3 main aspects are considered. The first aspect is use of technology to enhance active learning. The second aspect covers technology and administrative tasks, and the third aspect is the development of a technology curriculum for CAP trainees. The article concludes with a brief review of some of the challenges and pitfalls that have to be considered and recommendations for future research.
