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Delivery of Compassionate Mental Health Care in a Digital Technology-Driven Age: Scoping Review.

Jessica KempTimothy ZhangFiona InglisDavid WiljerSanjeev SockalingamAllison CrawfordBrian LoRebecca CharowMikayla MunneryShuranjeet Singh TakharGillian Strudwick
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)
Implementing digital technology into mental health care can improve the current delivery of compassionate care and create novel ways to provide compassion. However, as this is a new area of study, mental health professionals and organizations alike should be mindful that compassionate human-centered care is maintained in the delivery of digital health care. Future research could develop tools to facilitate and evaluate the enactment of compassion within digital health care.
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