Open AccessA virtual reality: Technology′s impact on youth mental health
Author(s) -
Benjamin I. Perry,
Swaran P. Singh
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of social psychiatry (online)/indian journal of social psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-8316
pISSN - 0971-9962
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9962.193190
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , mental health , virtual reality , set (abstract data type) , psychology , applied psychology , psychiatry , computer science , human–computer interaction , communication , programming language
2016 will mark as the year when commercially available virtual reality headsets first become available across the world. This is set to be a landmark development and will revolutionize the way we interact with technology, which is already eating up more and more of our time, and is now inextricable from day-to-day life. Adolescents, at a critical stage in both physical and psychological development, are often the first to adopt advances in technology, and therefore also any associated impact on health. We discuss some of the current and important research on the positive and negative implications of technology on the mental health of children and adolescents, and briefly outline how future technological advances may further affect how we diagnose, monitor, and manage our young patients in the psychiatric clinic