David D. Luxton

An essential, sensitive overview on the current and future use of AI tools in the behavioral health care context. Advances in AI are making possible more personalized, precise, efficient, predictive, and portable behavioral health care. This overview offers an important resource for practitioners who want to understand how AI can be used to improve their practice and help clients monitor their health. AI is revolutionizing the delivery of behavioral health care for mental health care professionals and their clients. This handbook offers an accessible guide to this transformation. It explains the ways that AI tools are currently used in varied behavioral-health contexts, including office administration, research, assessment and diagnosis, and direct clinical care, and it identifies critical applications for future usage. The guide also presents the current and potential value of AI technology in professional training programs and patient self-care, suggesting important pathways to further development. Research grounds each chapter, bolstering the identification of the many opportunities for implementing AI to augment behavioral health, improve behavioral health outcomes, lower the costs of behavioral health care delivery, and benefit population health. Relevant ethical issues and safety concerns are sensitively discussed throughout.

Now in its second edition, A Practitioner's Guide to Telemental Health is significantly updated with coverage of current best practices, evidence-based recommendations, and attention to nuanced refinements of telemental health in the face of recent accelerated growth in the field, due in part to the Covid- 9 pandemic. Telemental health, or TMH, has become integral to nearly all aspects of behavioral health service, including research and delivery of treatment, assessment, psychoeducation, training, supervision, and consultation. This has removed significant barriers to care access for many underserved groups however, it also means that the field overall must build its capacity to provide TMH. This book is for seasoned clinicians as well as new providers preparing to enter the mental and behavioral health care professions. Its chapters provide a guide for increasing TMH competencies, which require keeping up-to-date with the scientific evidence base and ongoing collegial discussion with informed leaders in the clinical, ethical, and legal realms. Readers will benefit from the research presented, as well as the description of practical steps they can take to ensure they are providing rewarding, safe, and quality TMH care for their patients.

By 2034 climate change is unleashing havoc on Earth. Dr. Sara Brown has just been tapped by Universal Mind Inc. to repair a new artificial intelligence weather forecasting and monitoring system, but she soon glimpses darker forces at work. Still grieving over the death of her husband and worried about her daughter's safety, the twenty-nine-year-old computer scientist must decide whether to risk her own freedom-and life-by acting for the greater good. She has the smarts to fix the world's most complex AI program, but will she outwit her corrupt employer and a psychopathic AI to save her child and the planet before it's too late? The technology in Behind the Machine, as terrifying as it is, presently exists.

When providing telehealth services, physical distance can create ethical and safety challenges. Such challenges are manageable when following the best practices outlined in this book, which illustrates how to conduct mental health services via videoconferencing and other technologies. As telecommunication technologies and health apps become more ubiquitous and affordable, they expand opportunities for mental health professionals to provide quality care. However, physical distance as well as technology itself can create challenges to safe and ethical practice. Such challenges are manageable when following the best practices outlined in this book. Providers can use videoconference and other technologies for assessment, treatment delivery, psychoeducation, supervision, and consultation. This practical guide covers each facet of telemental health care in turn, with emphasis on: Conducting telepractice within legal, regulatory, and ethical boundaries Safeguarding clients amp rsquo privacy and ensuring the security of their data Establishing a welcoming, safe environment and therapeutic rapport from a distance