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Media Psychology: What You Need to Know and How to Use It

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Media technologies can offer many advantages to medical rehabilitation when sensitively matched to people’s strengths and constraints. Achieving this effective pairing to help practitioners and patients achieve their goals is at the heart of media psychology. The purpose of this chapter is to provide practitioners with context and examples to facilitate the implementation of media technologies into their practices and professional lives. This chapter includes definitions of common terminology, some innovative and creative uses of technology appropriate to medical rehabilitation, and guidelines for ethically implementing social media practices. Throughout, the focus is twofold: the first is patient centered, with cases of media technology used for interventions, treatments, and education; the second highlights how to use media technologies to interact with the public, with guidelines to effectively distribute information about your services and practice, share your expertise, and make professional connections.

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    http://www.pinterest.com/summitmedicalnj/

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    http://www.pinterest.com/baylorhealth/

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    http://www.pinterest.com/stlukesmc/acute-rehabilitation/

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    http://www.pinterest.com/jetdsf/restorative-rehabilitative-exercises/

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  1. Media Psychology Research Center, Corona Del Mar, CA, 92625, USA

    Pamela Rutledge Ph.D., M.B.A.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Maggi A. Budd

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sigmund Hough

  3. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Stephen T. Wegener

  4. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    William Stiers

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Rutledge, P. (2017). Media Psychology: What You Need to Know and How to Use It. In: Budd, M., Hough, S., Wegener, S., Stiers, W. (eds) Practical Psychology in Medical Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34034-0_56

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