BACKGROUND: Over the past 25 years, the development of multiuser applications has seen considerable advancements and challenges. The technological development in this field has emerged from simple chat rooms through videoconferencing tools to the creation of complex, interactive, and often multisensory virtual worlds. These multiuser technologies have gradually found their way into mental health care, where they are used in both dyadic counseling and group interventions. However, some limitations in hardware capabilities, user experience designs, and scalability may have hindered the effectiveness of these applications. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aims at summarizing the progress made and the potential future directions in this field while evaluating various factors and perspectives relevant to remote multiuser interventions. METHODS: The systematic review was performed based on a Web of Science and PubMed database search covering articles in English, published from January 1999 to March 2024, related to multiuser mental health interventions. Several inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined before and during the records screening process, which was performed in several steps. RESULTS: We identified 49 records exploring multiuser applications in mental health care, ranging from text-based interventions to interventions set in fully immersive environments. The number of publications exploring this topic has been growing since 2015, with a large increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most digital interventions were delivered in the form of videoconferencing, with only a few implementing immersive environments. The studies used professional or peer-supported group interventions or a combination of both approaches. The research studies targeted diverse groups and topics, from nursing mothers to psychiatric disorders or various minority groups. Most group sessions occurred weekly, or in the case of the peer-support groups, often with a flexible schedule. CONCLUSIONS: We identified many benefits to multiuser digital interventions for mental health care. These approaches provide distributed, always available, and affordable peer support that can be used to deliver necessary help to people living outside of areas where in-person interventions are easily available. While immersive virtual environments have become a common tool in many areas of psychiatric care, such as exposure therapy, our results suggest that this technology in multiuser settings is still in its early stages. Most identified studies investigated mainstream technologies, such as videoconferencing or text-based support, substituting the immersive experience for convenience and ease of use. While many studies discuss useful features of virtual environments in group interventions, such as anonymity or stronger engagement with the group, we discuss persisting issues with these technologies, which currently prevent their full adoption.
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- duševní poruchy terapie MeSH
- duševní zdraví MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- služby péče o duševní zdraví * MeSH
- telemedicína MeSH
- videokonferování MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- přehledy MeSH
- systematický přehled MeSH
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- dostupnost zdravotnických služeb MeSH
- duševní zdraví MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- reforma zdravotní péče MeSH
- sociální práce psychiatrická * metody trendy MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
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- dítě MeSH
- duševní zdraví MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladiství MeSH
- služby zdravotní péče o dítě MeSH
- sociální práce psychiatrická * metody trendy MeSH
- zdravotnické služby pro mladistvé MeSH
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- dítě MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladiství MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
Goal: This study aims to discover the interest of foster parents in cooperating with the school social workers in elementary schools to support the children's school success during foster care. Methods: The quantitative survey was based on a non-standardised questionnaire validated for comprehensibility and relevance by professionals in non-profit organisations who conducted a pilot survey with cooperating foster parents. The research group was created by purposive sampling (n = 102). Descriptive statistics and exploratory analysis methods were used to evaluate the obtained data. Results: Foster parents are provided with expert advice by a non-profit organisation supporting foster families in social services, child rearing, education, and health. In schools, they use the entire spectrum of consulting services of pedagogical staff. They are somewhat satisfied with the support services provided, but show an interest in working with the school social worker to support the children's school success, health, and well-being. Conclusion: The need to institutionalise the profession of a school social worker in a Czech primary school appears to be a desirable prospective support of a child's school success and healthy growth, and a necessary help for parents regarding health and social counselling and services, especially when dealing with challenging life situations associated with school attendance. The social worker's global role has already been institutionalised in many countries around the world.
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- chování snižující riziko MeSH
- duševní poruchy * etiologie prevence a kontrola MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- návykové chování prevence a kontrola psychologie terapie MeSH
- poruchy příjmu potravy prevence a kontrola psychologie terapie MeSH
- primární prevence metody MeSH
- rodiče MeSH
- sebepoškozování prevence a kontrola psychologie terapie MeSH
- školní zdravotnické služby MeSH
- služby v oblasti duševního zdraví komunity organizace a řízení MeSH
- výchova a vzdělávání metody MeSH
- zdravotně rizikové chování MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
Cílem článku je přiblížit práci multidisciplinárních terénních týmů v oblasti duševního zdraví, popsat složení týmu, činnost některých jeho členů i cílovou skupinu a představit některé způsoby práce týmu jako je case management, asertivní kontaktování nebo poskytování krizových služeb.
The aim of the article is to describe the work of multidisciplinary outreach teams in the field of mental health, the composition of the team, the job of some team members, the target group of the team and some ways of their work, such as case management, assertive contacting and provision of crisis services.
Cílem článku je přiblížit práci multidisciplinárních terénních týmů v oblasti duševního zdraví, popsat složení týmu, činnost některých jeho členů i cílovou skupinu a představit některé způsoby práce týmu jako je case management, asertivní kontaktování nebo poskytování krizových služeb.
The aim of the article is to describe the work of multidisciplinary outreach teams in the field of mental health, the composition of the team, the job of some team members, the target group of the team and some ways of their work, such as case management, assertive contacting and provision of crisis services.
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- duševně nemocní MeSH
- duševní zdraví MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- ošetřovatelství v psychiatrii * metody MeSH
- paranoidní schizofrenie ošetřování MeSH
- služby péče o duševní zdraví * MeSH
- týmová péče o pacienty MeSH
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- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- kazuistiky MeSH
