Acceptance of Serious Games in Psychotherapy: An Inquiry into the Stance of Therapists and Patients

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 945-951

  Eichenberg, Christiane ^a   Grabmayer, Gloria ^a   Green, Nikos ^b  

^a SIGMUND FREUD UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

e mental health; patients' and therapists' viewpoint; psychotherapy; serious games

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RATING;

E MENTAL HEALTHS; IMPULSE CONTROL; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENTS' AND THERAPISTS' VIEWPOINT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SERIOUS GAMES;

COMPUTER GAMES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEO GAME;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84995446596     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2016.0001     Document Type: Article

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