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Informatics Technologies for the Acquisition of Psychological, Behavioral, Interpersonal, Social and Environmental Data

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Mental Health Informatics

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The collection, capture, storage, sharing, and interpretation of data are essential to all research and practice in mental health. A wide range of informatics technologies and tools have been developed to facilitate data use across the full knowledge acquisition lifecycle. In this chapter, we focus on data acquisition. We introduce the field of psychometrics—the science of measurement in psychology. We discuss the unique challenges of data acquisition in mental health by exploring the nature of psychological, behavioral, interpersonal, social, and environmental data in the context of mental health. Finally, we discuss some current challenges in the use of informatics technologies for data in these domains and how those challenges might be addressed in the future.

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Tenenbaum, E., Ranallo, P.A., Hastings, J. (2021). Informatics Technologies for the Acquisition of Psychological, Behavioral, Interpersonal, Social and Environmental Data. In: Tenenbaum, J.D., Ranallo, P.A. (eds) Mental Health Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70558-9_9

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