Intended and Unintended Consequence in the Digital Age of Psychiatry The Interface of Culture and Technology in Psychiatric Treatments

摘要

Culture plays a critical role in shaping the structure, content, and process of psychiatric treatment and influences the use of technology. Mental health providers and health care systems should account for the impact of the interface of technology and culture on clinical processes. Psychiatrists need to assess and monitor the impact of this interface on therapeutic processes. Health care systems should attend to these issues as they develop, adapt, and deploy technologies. As a field, psychiatry needs to develop frameworks for formally evaluating the use of existing and innovating technologies for use in mental health treatment.