Integrating socially assistive robotics into mental healthcare interventions: Applications and recommendations for expanded use

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-46

  Rabbitt, Sarah M ^a   Kazdin, Alan E ^a   Scassellati, Brian ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental healthcare and technology; Socially assistive robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPANION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSTRUCTOR; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHOLOGIST; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALLY ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; THERAPEUTIC PLAY PARTNER; FRIEND; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RECREATION;

FRIENDS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84911912070     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2014.07.001     Document Type: Review

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