Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Most existing work on supporting people with depression has focused on monitoring symptoms or providing computer or internet-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Help4Mood follows a different approach. Using Help4Mood, patients can track mood, physical activity, and psychomotor symptoms of depression, monitor recurrent negative thoughts, and explore new helpful behaviours. Key trends are summarised to support patient and therapist in joint sense making. The Idea One in five people will experience an episode of major depressive disorder during their life. After a first episode, the condition is highly likely to recur. The standard treatment options are medication and psychotherapy1. In recent decades, internet-based psychotherapy interventions have been used to widen access to psychotherapy2. But providing access to an internet- or computer-based intervention alone is insufficient for many people; outcomes are improved when patients are guided through the programme2. There are also many applications that allow users to monitor their mood and related symptoms. However, support for making sense of the data that has been collected is typically limited to graphs and summaries. There is also relatively little longitudinal data that would allow reliable detection of recovery or relapse. For example, most
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7098993396