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1. Mobile Phones and Psychosocial Therapies with Vulnerable People: a First State of the Art.

Author

Vázquez, Maria Yolanda García, Sexto, Carlos Ferrás, Rocha, Álvaro, and Aguilera, Adrián

Subjects
Humans, Psychology, Clinical, Social Work, Text Messaging, Cell Phones, Clinical psychology, Mobile phones, Psychosocial therapy, Social work, Text messaging, Vulnerable people, Cell Phone, Clinical Research, Psychology, Clinical, Medical Informatics, Information Systems, Public Health and Health Services
Abstract

Mobile phones are becoming a communication tool commonly used by people all over the world; and they are started to be adopted in psychosocial therapies involving vulnerable people. We are herein presenting the results of an academic literature review. We identified scientific papers published between 2006 and 2015 resorting to academic databases available on the Internet, applying a systematic selection method based on quality criteria. Secondly, we analysed contents, highlighting the scarcity of research involving vulnerable people. The available literature specialized in psychosocial therapies offers investigation results which involve mobile phones and patients in general, focusing particularly on the clinical psychology field and, to a lesser extent, on the social work field. Particularly significant are the investigation works developed in the United States. In the present paper we introduce a first "state of the art", identifying opportunities and also the limitations surrounding the use of mobile phones in psychosocial therapies targeting the vulnerable. Issues concerning privacy and data confidentiality, and the access of vulnerable people to mobile phones and how they use them, pose significant challenges; but they offer the opportunity to reach isolated or impoverished populations, or even to facilitate access to social and healthcare services. We close this paper formulating possible orientations, hypotheses and goals to design new investigation works involving vulnerable populations.

Published
2016

2. Mobile Phones and Psychosocial Therapies with Vulnerable People: a First State of the Art

Author

Álvaro Rocha, Adrian Aguilera, Carlos Ferrás Sexto, and María Yolanda García Vázquez

Subjects
Social Work, 050103 clinical psychology, 020205 medical informatics, media_common.quotation_subject, Psychology, Clinical, Internet privacy, Clinical psychology, Medicine (miscellaneous), Health Informatics, 02 engineering and technology, Computer security, computer.software_genre, Health informatics, Article, Scarcity, Clinical, Health Information Management, Clinical Research, Health care, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Psychology, Humans, Medicine, Mobile phones, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Quality (business), Confidentiality, media_common, Text Messaging, Social work, business.industry, 05 social sciences, Vulnerable people, Psychosocial therapy, Public Health and Health Services, The Internet, Cell Phones, business, Psychosocial, computer, Medical Informatics, Cell Phone, Information Systems
Abstract

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Mobile phones are becoming a communication tool commonly used by people all over the world; and they are started to be adopted in psychosocial therapies involving vulnerable people. We are herein presenting the results of an academic literature review. We identified scientific papers published between 2006 and 2015 resorting to academic databases available on the Internet, applying a systematic selection method based on quality criteria. Secondly, we analysed contents, highlighting the scarcity of research involving vulnerable people. The available literature specialized in psychosocial therapies offers investigation results which involve mobile phones and patients in general, focusing particularly on the clinical psychology field and, to a lesser extent, on the social work field. Particularly significant are the investigation works developed in the United States. In the present paper we introduce a first “state of the art”, identifying opportunities and also the limitations surrounding the use of mobile phones in psychosocial therapies targeting the vulnerable. Issues concerning privacy and data confidentiality, and the access of vulnerable people to mobile phones and how they use them, pose significant challenges; but they offer the opportunity to reach isolated or impoverished populations, or even to facilitate access to social and healthcare services. We close this paper formulating possible orientations, hypotheses and goals to design new investigation works involving vulnerable populations.

Published
2016