[Cross-sectoral therapeutic concepts and innovative technologies: new opportunities for the treatment of patients with mental disorders]

[Psychosocial Care Demands and Possible Implications for the Role of Mental Health Nursing - Development of an Exemplary Future Scenario]

This study focuses on the development of a possible future scenario for mental health nursing in Germany. Based on the identified trends in mental health care, important implications for the design of future-oriented mental health nursing were identified and discussed. The developed model describes a type of mental health nursing that takes place on an "extended" or "advanced" level, close to the community and in a multi-professional setting in the living environment of the affected persons and their relatives. It integrates digital elements of mental health care, while practicing person-centered, diversity- and trauma-informed approaches. Although this describes an approach to mental health nursing that could meet the expected trends and developments in mental health care, critical discussion and reflected consensus on these ideas is needed in an interdisciplinary body.

[Ethical challenges of telepsychiatry]

Telepsychiatry is shifting the focus of psychiatry and psychotherapy from personal interaction and relationship building to communication with technological mediators in the form of telecommunication, virtual reality (VR), social robots or artificial intelligence (AI). This article discusses the opportunities and risks of new technologies in psychiatric treatment, taking into account the principles of medical ethics. Telepsychiatric treatments can promote self-determination in the home environment as opposed to institutionalisation but carry the risk of uncontrolled data sharing. They harbour risks of potential harm such as social isolation, negative effects on the doctor-patient relationship and long-term changes in patient behaviour through, for example, VR. In terms of justice, demographic and psychopathological factors could result in unequal access to telepsychiatry, with questionable sustainability effects. The anonymity of telepsychiatry threatens alienation, while moral considerations cannot be replaced by AI for the time being. It is obligatory to carefully weigh up the benefits and risks of telepsychiatry, but especially in rural areas they could optimise care.Precisely because of ethical concerns, further intensive research is necessary to weigh up the risks and benefits. The development of telepsychiatric systems requires transdisciplinary co-operation. At a societal level, the significance of technologies as a supplement or replacement for the doctor-patient relationship needs to be discussed.

Development of the Therapeutic Alliance in Alternative Settings to Psychiatric Hospitalization: An Open Comparative Study

Patient-therapist alliance in two alternative treatment settings developed similarly to that in traditional psychiatric hospitalization.

[Digital life in a networked world: opportunities and risks for psychiatry]

This overview addresses some opportunities and risks of digital transformation in their significance for the diagnostics and therapy of mental illnesses under the aspect of the convergence of new digital technologies. Possibilities of smartphone-based technologies for the recording of the lifeworld context are explained and the application of this approach to the investigation of resilience mechanisms for improving mental well-being is presented on the basis of two current research results. Subsequently, the increasing networking of the environmental context itself is taken into account against the background of the so-called internet of things (IoT). These converging technologies, combined with new developments in artificial intelligence, enable a new generation of ecological momentary interventions (EMI) based on innovative sensors, local assessment of the lifeworld context and their evaluation using artificial intelligence.