Mental health in the digital age : grave dangers, great promise / edited by Elias Aboujaoude and Vladan Starcevic.

Includes bibliographical references.

Problematic Internet use : an overview / by Elias Aboujaoude and Aviv Weinstein -- An overview of problematic gaming / by Mark D. Griffiths, Orsolya Király, Halley M. Pontes and Zsolt Demetrovics -- Assessment of problematic Internet use and online video gaming / by Orsolya Király, Katalin Nagygyörgy, Beatrix Koronczai, Mark D. Griffiths and Zsolt Demetrovics -- Neurobiological aspects of problematic Internet and video game use / by Sun Mi Kim and Doug Hyun Han -- Video game violence and offline aggression / by Christopher leaves Groves and Craig A. Anderson -- Cyberchondria : an old phenomenon in a new guise? / by Vladan Starcevic and David Berle -- Cyberbullying : a mental health perspective / by Matthew W. Savage, Sarah E. Jones and Robert S. Tokunaga -- Life vs. death : the suicidal mind, online / by Keith M. Harris -- Psychoeducation and the Internet / by Nicola J. Reavley and Anthony F. Jorm -- Internet-based psychotherapy / by Gerhard Andersson -- Software-based psychotherapy : the example of computerized cognitive-behavioral therapy (cCBT) by Lina Gega and Simon Gilbody -- Next frontier : virtual reality in exposure therapy / by Eric Malbos -- Mtherapy : an overview of mobile device-assisted psychological therapy and prevention of mental health problems / by Sylvia Kauer and Sophie C. Reid -- Electronic mental health records in the United States : promise and pitfalls / by David J. Peterson and Jeffrey G. Miller.

The Internet and related technologies have reconfigured every aspect of life, including mental health. Although the negative and positive effects of digital technology on mental health have been debated, all too often this has been done with much passion and few or no supporting data. In Mental Health in the Digital Age, Elias Aboujaoude and Vladan Starcevic have edited a book that brings together distinguished experts from around the world to review the evidence relating to this area. The first part of the book addresses threats resulting from the growing reliance on, and misuse of, digital technology; it also looks at how some problematic behaviors and forms of psychopathology have been shaped by this technology, including information on Internet and video game use, effects of violent video games on the levels of aggression, of online searches for health-related information on the levels of health anxiety, use of digital technology to harm other people, and promotion of suicide on the Internet.

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