PMH1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Behavioral Activation, Therapeutic Relationship, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
4 Jul 2018
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1. WEEK 6 – MENTAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Learning Outcome:
Understand the basic nature and range of technology-based mental health support
options.
Understand the underlying mechanisms that technology-based interventions use to
improve mental health outcomes.
Understand the features that underpin well-designed self-guided mental health
technologies.
1 in 3 will experience clinical depression or anxiety.
Some problems with “traditional” help
Service providers recommending strategies
oPatients/clients may not know
What to use when
What’s working and what isn’t
The rationale, which lowers motivation
What else to do when the first strategy doesn’t work
oService providers may not know exactly what or how much to recommend for the
individual.
What will work for them when they leave the office?
oSelf-help tools
Hard to find
Hard to know what is reliable
Like school workbooks
Can’t be used to the moment
No automatic notification if professional help should be sought.
Stress
Potting stress/alertness and against performance.
“How much your body is knowing”
Stress is continuum and there’s an acknowledgement that there’s good and bad stress.
What helps?
Building Insight
Breaking Cycles
Building resilience
Intervention Types
Therapy
Peer-support
Psychoeducation
Medication
Other medical procedures (ECT)
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Intervention Delivery
One – one- one therapy sessions
oIn person
oOver the phone
oVideo link
Group therapy sessions
Online tools (used on a computer)
Apps (used on mobile devices)
Workbooks.
Recommendations for Mental Health Technologies
Cognitive behavioural therapy based
Address more than issues (e.g both anxiety and low mood)
Designed for use by nonclinical populations
Automated tailoring
Reporting of thoughts, feelings, or behaviours
Recommend Activities
Mental Health information
Real-time engagement
Activities explicitly linked to specific reported mood problems
Encourage nontechnology-based activities
Gamification and intrinsic motivation to engage
Log of past use
Reminder to engage
Simple and intuitive interface and interactions
Links to other support service
Experimental trials to establish efficacy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Evidence- based therapy for many psychological disorders.
oDepression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD
oInsomnia, gambling, irritable bowel syndrome,
CBT is NOT ONE THING
Three change principles
oContext engagement
oAttention change
oCognitive change
Self-determination theory
oRelated to CBT, but more broadly to motivation
oIntrinsic vs Extrinsic motivation
oIntrinsic Motivation:
Competency/Mastery
Connectedness/Relatedness
Autonomy/Control
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Document Summary
Pmh1011: week 6 mental health technology. Understand the basic nature and range of technology-based mental health support options. Understand the underlying mechanisms that technology-based interventions use to improve mental health outcomes. Understand the features that underpin well-designed self-guided mental health technologies. 1 in 3 will experience clinical depression or anxiety. Service providers recommending strategies: patients/clients may not know. What else to do when the first strategy doesn"t work: service providers may not know exactly what or how much to recommend for the individual. What will work for them when they leave the office: self-help tools. No automatic notification if professional help should be sought. Stress is continuum and there"s an acknowledgement that there"s good and bad stress. One one- one therapy sessions: in person, over the phone, video link. Address more than issues (e. g both anxiety and low mood) Activities explicitly linked to specific reported mood problems.
