Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of the Science and Vision for the Future

Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction presents the foundations of digital therapeutics with a broad audience in mind; ranging from bioengineers and computer scientists through to those in psychology, psychiatry and social work. It then moves on to discuss cutting edge advancements in the field, and offers advice on how to successfully implement digital therapeutics. The content in this book will provide readers with summaries of evidence for direct-to-consumer standalone digital therapeutics, the efficacy of integrating digital treatments within traditional healthcare settings, as well as recent innovations which are currently and will continue to transform the field of digital therapeutics towards experiences which are more personalized, adaptable, and engaging.

Digital mental health is a richly interdisciplinary and relatively new field. In this book psychologists and other mental health professionals can learn about computing and technology development, whilst computing researchers and engineers can learn about psychology aspects. For all readers, the content on cultural, legal, and ethical dimensions of digital mental health should be useful. The chapters offer information on the concept of digital therapeutics, teach readers the basic framework of AI-based solutions for digital therapeutics, and discuss how digital therapeutics will transform the extant solutions for mental health and addition therapy. This book gives a view on current limitations of the technology, ideas for problem solving the challenges of designing this technology and a perspective on future research directions.