Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral and Mental Health Care

by David D. Luxton (Editor)

Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral and Mental Health Care summarizes recent advances in artificial intelligence as it applies to mental health clinical practice. Each chapter provides a technical description of the advance, review of application in clinical practice, and empirical data on clinical efficacy. In addition, each chapter includes a discussion of practical issues in clinical settings, ethical considerations, and limitations of use. The book encompasses AI based advances in decision-making, in assessment and treatment, in providing education to clients, robot assisted task completion, and the use of AI for research and data gathering. This book will be of use to mental health practitioners interested in learning about, or incorporating AI advances into their practice and for researchers interested in a comprehensive review of these advances in one source.

Genres: Artificial Intelligence

308 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 2015

Reviews

[Ricardo Acuña · Rating 5 out of 5]

The emergence of the AI technologies in the Behavioral and Mental Health Care is transforming the professional field which are already being used in training, treatment and consultation. This book covers extensively the latest developments, AI technologies, NLP, machine learning, virtual reality, as well as the diverse and interesting applications that already being applied to diagnose and treat mental diseases like Alzheimer, schizophrenia, depression and autism. The possibilities of the new AI technologies are continuously growing, comprising expert systems, autonomous virtual agents, clinical decision support, virtual affective agents, automated mental state detection, robotics, mobile applications, and many more.

An important argument in the book is that AI is not to replace Behavioral and Mental Health Care professionals, but is a tool that complement and extend the capabilities to diagnose, treat and monitor mental diseases. Definitively an excellent reference book for those interested in the field. Luxton and the multidisciplinary experts that collaborate in the book, did an outstanding job, with an extensive research on the body of knowledge adding at the end of each section an ample list of references to white papers and books.

[Marcus Österberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Särskilt intressant med delen om vanliga missuppfattningar om vad djupinlärning kan bidra/orsaka inom läkekonsten. I övrigt inte direkt populärvetenskaplig men man tar sig igenom den om man har en orsak, som jag för min rapport.