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标题：The Digital Therapeutic Alliance and Human-Computer Interaction
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作者：Simon D'Alfonso ; Reeva Lederman ; Sandra Bucci 等
期刊名称：JMIR Mental Health
电子版ISSN：2368-7959
出版年度：2020
卷号：7
期号：12
页码：1-15
DOI：10.2196/21895
出版社：JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada
摘要：The therapeutic alliance (TA), the relationship that develops between a therapist and a client/patient, is a critical factor in the outcome of psychological therapy. As mental health care is increasingly adopting digital technologies and offering therapeutic interventions that may not involve human therapists, the notion of a TA in digital mental health care requires exploration. To date, there has been some incipient work on developing measures to assess the conceptualization of a digital TA for mental health apps. However, the few measures that have been proposed have more or less been derivatives of measures from psychology used to assess the TA in traditional face-to-face therapy. This conceptual paper explores one such instrument that has been proposed in the literature, the Mobile Agnew Relationship Measure, and examines it through a human-computer interaction (HCI) lens. Through this process, we show how theories from HCI can play a role in shaping or generating a more suitable, purpose-built measure of the digital therapeutic alliance (DTA), and we contribute suggestions on how HCI methods and knowledge can be used to foster the DTA in mental health apps.
关键词：affective computing;digital mental health;mHealth;mobile phone;persuasive computing;positive computing;therapeutic alliance