Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 16, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover; Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral and Mental Health Care; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Editor; Preface; 1 An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral and Mental Health Care; Introduction and Overview; Key Concepts and Technologies; What Is AI?; Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks; Natural Language Processing; Machine Perception and Sensing; Affective Computing; Virtual and Augmented Reality; Cloud Computing and Wireless Technologies; Robotics; BCIs and Implants; Supercomputing and Brain Simulation; The Turing Test.

Technological BarriersBenefits of AI for Behavioral and Mental Health Care; Intelligent Machines Are Better at Some Things; Improved Self-Care and Access to Care; Integration and Customization of Care; Economic Benefits; Additional Considerations; Conclusion; References; Additional Resources; 2 Expert Systems in Mental Health Care: AI Applications in Decision-Making and Consultation; Introduction; The History -- Expert Systems and Clinical Artificial Intelligence in Health Care; The Present -- Dynamical Approaches to Clinical AI and Expert Systems; Temporal Modeling Overview.

Real-World Clinical Applications -- Predicting in a Dynamic WorldMulti-Agent Models for Personalized Medicine; Technology-Enhanced Clinicians; Summary of Dynamical Approaches for Clinical AI; The Future; Cognitive Computing in Health Care; The Intersection Between Other Emerging Technologies and Clinical Artificial Intelligence; Ethics and Challenges; Conclusion; References; 3 Autonomous Virtual Human Agents for Healthcare Information Support and Clinical Interviewing; Introduction; The Rationale and Brief History of the Clinical Use of VHs; Use Cases: SimCoach and SimSensei.

SimCoach: A VH Agent to Support Healthcare Information AccessSimSensei: A VH Interviewing Agent for Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals; Nonverbal Behavior and Clinical Conditions; Comparative Evaluation Across Interviews: Face-To-Face, WoZ, and Automatic Interaction with the SimSensei VH Agent; Conclusions; References; 4 Virtual Affective Agents and Therapeutic Games; Introduction; Brief History of Virtual Affective Agents and Serious Games; Virtual Affective Agents; Serious Games; State of the Art.

Nonverbal Interaction: Emotion Recognition, Emotion Expression, and Agent EmbodimentEmotion Recognition and Expression; Embodiment; Believability, Affective Realism, and Emotional Intelligence; Personalization and Adaptation Capabilities; Putting It All Together: Agent Architectures; Nonplaying Characters and Player Avatars; Affective and Affect-Adaptive Gaming; Overview of Recent Applications in Health Care; Pediatric Pain Management -- "Free Dive"; OCD in Children -- "Ricky and the Spider"; PTSD in War Veterans -- "Virtual Iraq."

Social and Emotion Regulation Skills for Children on the Autism Spectrum -- "Secret Agent Society."

Summarizes recent advances in artificial intelligence as it applies to mental health clinical practice. This book will be of use to mental health practitioners interested in learning about or incorporating AI advances into their practice and for researchers interested in a comprehensive review of these advances in one source.