Digital mental health apps and the therapeutic alliance: initial review

2019159 citationsJournal Articlegold Open Access

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Philip Henson · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Hannah Wisniewski · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Chris Hollis · NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative

Matcheri S. Keshavan · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

John Torous · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Abstract

Assessing and optimising the digital therapeutic alliance holds the potential to make tools such as smartphone apps more effective and improve adherence to their use. However, the heterogeneous nature of the five studies we identified make it challenging to draw conclusions at this time. A measure is required to evaluate the digital therapeutic alliance.

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Digital Mental Health Interventions Impact of Technology on Adolescents Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

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Published in: BJPsych Open

Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. e15-e15

DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2018.86

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 11.67

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Digital mental health apps and the therapeutic alliance: initial review

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