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Mental Health Practice in a Digital World

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Social media use on the Internet has become the predominate activity online. It incorporates elements of Web 2.0, a construct where an architecture of participation, collective intelligence, and collaboration define how the website is to be used. While Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter dominate the social media landscape, healthcare and health information are now using these social media tools. The boundary between personal versus professional social media has blurred, where patients, providers, and healthcare organizations navigate and utilize all of these tools for both personal and professional reasons. Privacy online is slowly becoming extinct. In mental health, ethics still rule what type of searching behavior is appropriate. Patients now have access to a plethora of health tools, ranging from provider and hospital ratings, to peer support and even open access to health information posted by patients about their condition. Use of these social media tools and health information is no longer a domain of the tech savvy young as now seniors go online with increasing frequency and utilizing broadband Internet access.

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  1. Health Sciences, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    John S. Luo M.D.

  2. VA National Center for PTSD, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Brian N. Smith Ph.D.

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  1. BayCare Medical Group, Behavioral Health, BayCare Health System, Clearwater, Florida, USA

    Naakesh A. Dewan

  2. Health Sciences, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA

    John S. Luo

  3. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Nancy M. Lorenzi

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Luo, J.S., Smith, B.N. (2015). Social Media. In: Dewan, N., Luo, J., Lorenzi, N. (eds) Mental Health Practice in a Digital World. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14109-1_9

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