Lessons learned from the development of technological support for PTSD prevention: a review

Submitted by Willem-Paul Brinkman on Fri, 03/29/2013 - 21:58

This review describes the state-of-the-art technologies that support mental resilience training for PTSD prevention. It characterizes four current systems across training approaches; seeks insights via interviews with the system developers; and extracts from these a set of essential guidelines for future developers. The guidelines include four distinct project-limiting factors, which were found to constrain the reviewed developments. These were Culture, Effectiveness, Engineering, and Resource constraints. This research is novel in reviewing technologies for PTSD prevention as opposed to treatment, and in analyzing from the perspective of system development and design issues.

Vakili, V., Brinkman W. - P., & Neerincx M. A.(2012). Lessons Learned from the Development of Technological Support for PTSD Prevention: A Review. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 181, 22-26. pdf

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Research conducted at Delft Mental Health Computing Lab focuses on computer support systems for understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and for mental coaching to promote health, well-being and the prevention of illness. It is positioned at the intersection between computer science (including human computer interaction), clinical and health psychology.

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