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A Review of: “The Use of Technology in Mental Health (Applications, Ethics and Practice).”

The explosive growth of new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the last decade combined with the increasing need to provide cost-efficient, highly accessible mental health care to diverse and often remote patient populations make this book a timely contribution to the field. The intent of the book (pxvii) is stated as to ‘‘give the reader a wide range of chapters that may be read in isolation . . . or as a complete study of as many technologies as are available at the time of writing.’’ In the forward, the stated purpose is to provide a ‘‘tool for the better understanding of the psychological troubles of clients and the impact of technology on practice.’’ Within the constraints of the current state of the art, the authors of each chapter have generally succeeded in fulfilling these goals. Two of the editors (Anthony and Nagel) are cofounders of the Online Therapy Institute which, with the International Society for Mental Health Online, have established best practice criteria and ethical codes for clinicians (although neither of these is described in this text). The book consists of 30 chapters by a total of 40 contributors (with several authoring more than one chapter). The contributors are evenly divided between individuals from United States and international (mostly UK) sites and about half are clinicians with the bulk of the others being researchers. Each chapter follows a similar format including an introduction and description of the technology followed by sections on ethical and administrative considerations including descriptions of implementation of the application with case illustrations where appropriate. However, there is a wide variety of styles across the chapters ranging from anecdotal descriptions of individual applications with few references or supporting evidence to highly referenced, evidence-based applications such as Computer assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CCBT). Also, given the format, there is considerable redundancy of certain topics such as ethical considerations which tend to be relatively similar across most applications. It should be noted that the scope of the book does not cover the full range of potential mental health applications in mental health such as Journal of Technology in Human Services, 29:232–235, 2011 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1522-8835 print=1522-8991 online DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2011.616940