On the special issue “Mental workload”

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Special Issue "Technology for Mental Health"

Help4Mood is a system that supports the treatment of people with depression in the community. It collects rich cognitive, psychomotor, and motor data through a Personal Monitoring System and a Virtual Agent, which is then analysed by a Decision Support System; analysis results are fed back to patients and their treating clinicians. In this paper, we describe how the complex data is managed and ...

Introduction to Special Issue on Globalisation, Culture and Mental Health

Race, Ethnicity and Mental Health: Introduction to the Special Issue*

233 Race and ethnicity have been and continue to be associated with residence in safe and supportive neighborhoods, employment in good paying and fulfilling jobs, attendance at schools with exceptional learning environments, and quality health care (National Research Council 2001). Explanations for the persistent effects of race and ethnicity in our daily lives have taken different forms and of...

Attachment-related mental representations: introduction to the special issue.

Bowlby's concept of mental working models of self, attachment figures, and the social world has been theoretically generative as a bridge between early relational experience and the beliefs and expectations that color later relationships. Contemporary attachment researchers, following his example, are applying new knowledge of children's conceptual development to their study of attachment-relat...